Important tools in Kali Linux

Once you have Kali Linux up and running, you can start playing with the tools. Since this book is on web application hacking, all the major tools that we would be spending most of our time are under Applications | Web Application. Following screenshot shows the tools present under Web Application:

Important tools in Kali Linux

In Kali Linux 2.0, tools under Web Applications are further divided into four categories as listed here:

  • Web application proxies
  • Web vulnerability scanners
  • Web crawlers and directory browsing
  • CMS and framework identification

Web application proxies

A HTTP proxy is one of the most important tools in the kit of a web application hacker ...

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