Downloading a page for offline analysis with Wget

Wget is a part of the GNU project and is included in most of the major Linux distributions, including Kali Linux. It has the ability to recursively download a web page for offline browsing, including conversion of links and downloading of non-HTML files.

In this recipe, we will use Wget to download pages that are associated with an application in our vulnerable_vm.

Getting ready

All recipes in this chapter will require vulnerable_vm running. In the particular scenario of this book, it will have the IP address 192.168.56.102.

How to do it...

  1. Let's make the first attempt to download the page by calling Wget with a URL as the only parameter:
    wget http://192.168.56.102/bodgeit/

    As we can see, it only downloaded ...

Get Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial