All language subtitles for Ultimate Kali Linux Basics Tutorial for Beginners (20252026 Edition) Kali Linux from Scratch

So I kind of want to go through the

basics again for people who just got

started not sure what to do. They've

installed Ki Linux. Now you kind of it

begs the question, okay, what do I do

now? So just to kind of recap, I'm sure

you've seen a lot of YouTube videos. I'm

sure you've seen a lot of YouTube

tutorials on Kali Linux or maybe just

Linux itself.

I want to kind of go through the basics

again to kind of guide people into this

Linux distribution a little bit better.

Kind of what is it all about? Uh this is

just a beginner video. So I mean if you

already know this stuff there's no point

in watching it. Uh but Kali Linux let me

just go through just dive straight into

it. Kali Linux is a operating system

used by ethical hackers. This operating

system is used w it's widely known for

ethical hacking purposes uh related to

security researching discovering

vulnerabilities on web applications

because of the tools that you would use

in this distribution. There's a lot of

tools and suites which are pre-installed

which you can use to practice your

skills and actually to be a hacker. Um

I'm sure you installed K Linux not to

just play around and play video games.

you installed Ki Linux for the intent to

hack uh responsibly. Of course, I do not

condone any illegal activity and I sure

is don't promote any illegal activity or

any illegal endeavor. I am what you call

a ethical hacker, someone who finds a

vulnerability and loves the opportunity

to report it and actually to do good

because it makes the world a better

place. And I would like to kind of go

through the basics to kind of guide

people into the direction of Ki Linux

itself, you know, because it has 600

tools. And if I try to show 600 tools,

we might be here for 2 weeks or even a

month uh to be, you know, honest. It's

just going to take a long time to show

you 600 tools. I don't think that's

really needed. Um 600 tools is not

really necessary for, you know, your

endeavor. You probably thought, "Do I

need to learn 600 tools, Dicklin?" No,

you don't. You don't need to learn 600.

You probably learn need to learn about

the basics probably around about five at

least. So, we're going to just kind of

go through the basics first. So, when

you install Ky Linux, this is the first

thing that you see. You've got this

drop-own menu here. This menu is just

for uh categories associated with the

particular field you're interested in.

Uh and then in this category has the

tools to do that particular thing. So

for example, reconnaissance is all

about, you know, information gathering.

This is what you call recon or like it

says there, reconnaissance, information

gathering. And it just has a lot of

open-source intelligence tools. It

allows you to discover, find, research

information. That's all this is. Um, so

you know, you got the popular one down

here called Nap. And if you actually

click on it, it just opens it in the

terminal. Because most of these tools

are ter terminal tools. If you don't

know what a terminal is, this terminal

window here, this little window, if you

actually click this icon here, this is a

terminal. It's just like a window

emulator. It's just a window which you

can type other commands commands in to

do something specific. So, if I type in

ls, you can see here it's listed my

files on a computer. So, if I change the

directory by typing cd, which stands for

change directory, into the desktop

directory, where do you think that goes?

It goes into the background. So, you see

this is my desktop environment behind

me. And if I create a folder, so let's

say make directory like this. Make

directory make dur. And let's just say

test. We do that. We can see this folder

just popped up on my screen. And I can

drag it around. It's an actual folder.

If I click on it, so you can see how the

ter terminal emulator can be very handy

when you want to navigate through files

and when you want to navigate through

remote connections and servers and stuff

like that.

So you know you would use the terminal

most of the time to configure

pre-install or even update tools or

software that you would use in

penetration testing. The very first

thing that you should do when you

install K Linux is typing pseudoapp

update and then type a and and put and

and so this is what you call the and

operator which basically means okay run

this command first and then run the

second one. So you can go pseudoapp

upgrade as well. Um, so apt, if you

don't know what this is, it's like an

it's like a package manager. So a

package manager is where you can install

packages, software, and even update it

on your current system without needing

to do a lot of stuff. So you just type

in pseudoapp update, which is going to

fetch the latest packages related to

Kali Linux, which can update current

software and tools that you would use

like Burpu or N Map or whatever it is,

right? Or even Python. uh upgrade

however updates and upgrades the entire

operating system itself um updating the

core packages which makes the operating

system work in Kylo Linux. Uh this works

for any other Linux distribution as

well. It actually upgrades the firmware

and it's pretty nice. So you can see

there it just fetched those packages and

it's configured it and it just bundles

it and it's asking me if I want to

continue to install these other kernel

packages. I'm going to go ahead and do

that. might take a little while

depending on your internet connection,

but it's definitely a necessity if you

want a fast working reliable K Linux

environment when you do penetration

testing or even hack the box like I

always talk about in my videos.

So anyways, uh you can see this folder.

I just dragged it in the bin. It's going

to say empty trash. I don't need that

trash because it is literally trash. Uh

I'm going to minimize my terminal. Don't

close it. Just minimize it. So in the

background it's updating. Uh go to the

applications menu again. So let's have a

look here. So we got reconnaissance. We

just took a look at that. We got burp

sweep which is a popular tool for

intercepting website requests and

applications which helps you analyze

certain requests. It's a lot of

information to handle but you'll get

through it very easily. Um so everything

to do with this category is just

researching and finding stuff. Uh

resource development. It's just

everything to do with like searching for

the right exploit. And honestly, I don't

know what this other stuff is. I haven't

messed with it. The only common ones I

know is search where you search for a

particular exploit that you would use or

run against a vulnerability. Uh MSF

Venom to generate a payload or even

encode payloads which is something that

you get access to. So this is a category

relied strictly on you know gaining

access and having that initial access.

Um, so these are like initial access

tools, you know, it's not like you click

it and then you gain access to it or

something. So you can actually run this

tool against something. So for example,

this tool here called comics is used for

testing command injection

vulnerabilities in a website parameter

just like SQL map. SQL map is used for

SQL injections. This one here comics is

used for command injection. Uh, so it's

very nice. Um, so you do have to do a

lot of research in like web application

security and use Ku Linux as well to

learn about it. That's how I did and

I'll definitely make a tutorial series.

Um, execution tab, everything to gain

access. Again, persistence is like

everything to do with being persistent,

having that persistent access. These are

just tools to gain access to a web

server. Not sure what this top one is.

Uh, privilege escalation. Oh, this is

probably the best thing to learn more

about. Um, privilege escalation is

basically where you have access to a

system already, but you don't have like

higher authority on the system. So, for

example, if you if you for educational

purposes, uh, as an example, if you got

into a vulnerable Windows server

operating system, if you basically

hacked into a Windows computer and

you're you are the basic user, you're

not like the admin user, uh, you can

actually run Win. So, you've got linies

and windpiece. Win is for Windows,

Lindpie is for Linux. So, let's say you

hacked into a Windows computer and you

wanted to find loopholes or find

vulnerable versions in the system. Uh,

Windpiece will automate this for you to

find those things. So, you can do your

research and quickly gain access. Uh,

the same as for Linux. If you hacked

into a Linux server or something like

that, it's the same thing. You can run

linies to find those loopholes and get

higher privileges on the system uh like

root, right? Which is pretty cool. um

defensive evasion,

credential access, discovery. These are

these are actually new tabs that have

been opened, but most of it you'll still

see the same tools. It's pretty nice. Uh

so the there's a lot of uh tools to go

through. I did say 600, but the you

could just take a look at these main

ones in the category, but they do have

it listed as well. Um if you installed

it, of course. But this is actually a

pre-made virtual machine, so I don't

actually think it has 600 tools built

into it. I think it has the basic

necessities for you to do penetration

testing. And of course, you can install

any other tool later on down the line.

All right, let's go back to our

terminal. Let's see if it's updating.

Okay, it's at 14%. So, I'm going to go

ahead and skip the video. So, let's

continue where we left off. So, it's

done upgrading. That's brilliant. And if

you have done this already, just skip

that. Let's get into the basics. So,

type in clear. So, you can actually

clear your terminal. Uh the shortest way

and the quickest way to do it without

typing clear is actually by holding if

you're on Windows CRL L. If you hold

Ctrl L that clears the the terminal as

well. Uh on I think if you're doing it

on VMware Fusion. So this is on Mac. I

think it's command L. Uh so you could

try and do that and it um but yeah. So

clear also does the same thing. So if

you have bunch of stuff on the screen,

you can just type in clear and it clears

the screen. So you can just do command

sorry not command control L if you're on

Windows. Anyways let's get straight into

it. So um the first thing that we just

did in the beginning was change

directory onto our desktop make a

folder. I'll show you that again. So if

you type in cd do that goes back a

folder. So it goes back a directory. So

this itself is an environment. Uh you

can also navigate into folders as well.

So if I type in ls it means list the

files. So that's what we are doing here.

We are listing the files on the system

and we can see here we listing files. We

can see desktop downloads, pictures,

etc. If we downloaded something, we can

go into the downloads folder by typing

CD downloads. And if we type in ls,

there's nothing in this file. Uh to

actually see hidden files, if you want

to find hidden files, you can type in ls

dash a. So what this will do is it will

find hidden directories. And if you

don't know what hidden directories are,

so let me go ahead and create hidden

directory. Just a hidden directory

called hidden or I just do test. Okay,

that's a hidden directory with the dot

in the beginning. That's how you create

a folder that isn't supposed to be seen.

If I do ls, you can see it's not showing

up. If I do ls- a, you can see there the

folder showed up and I get into it. So

it's pretty nice. So in order to remove

a directory we're going to type remove

and then the name of the the folder and

by that it's going to say can't remove

as a directory. So we can just say you

know what let's do pseudo remove test.

Okay it's still going to say that. Let's

say remove remove fully. So this dash rf

means remove fully test. And we can see

there it just removed it. And if I find

it it's not there. So you can see how

helpful it is to rely on the terminal

emulator to navigate through the system,

create files, move files, delete files,

even run commands, tools, etc. Um, so

you can actually have more than one

terminal

uh window open doing certain things. So

it's pretty cool. So you can do cd. So

let's go back a directory. You can see

this is the home directory where the

users are. If I go all the way back, you

can see this is where all the system

files are, the bootloadader, the kernel,

all the packages installed, etc. Um, so

it's everything's in here as well. Yeah,

but just type in cd to go back to the

main directory of our at this start. And

uh, so let's just take it slow. So ls

that lists the files. mk dur with a file

name or sorry a folder name stands for

make directory so this is going to make

a directory and you can name it whatever

you want literally uh you can name it

whatever you want it doesn't matter so

it's it's just a folder right you can

create a folder to do certain things so

you can say okay I want to work on my

website let's just create a folder to

put my code in or something like that

you know um so you can make a directory

by using the mk command um you can also

remove a directory by typing remove and

then the file name or the folder name to

remove And if that doesn't work, you can

use uh remove fully completely remove it

and with pseudo it will remove. Um the

next thing is so like I showed you

before to see hidden files is ls- a and

you can actually see right away it did

list other directories but it also lists

the files that are hidden. So if I do ls

this is the same directory. If I type in

ls- a you can see all these other files

and folders that pop up which is very

nice. And these aren't supposed to be

changed. This is by default installed

already. Um, but you can actually tweak

it and interact with it. So when you

install tools, it configures with your

bash environment. Um, which is very

nice. But anyways, that's awesome,

right? So let's get back into it. So if

we go to the menu here, we took we took

a look at some tools, right? But we

didn't actually run any of them. So

let's go ahead just play around. So if

we type in end mapap,

okay, what happened? It didn't do

anything. Um so NMAP is just a tool

which allows you to scan like open

services and ports on a network. Um but

you can see here nothing obviously

happened but it's because we need to

supply a address to scan. So if we type

in MAP and then a IP this can be a local

area network IP. So a IP address which

is a computer address or or phone

address on your network that you can

scan. I'm not sure why you would do that

but you could do it to see if there's

any ports that are open. You can even do

this to your router, your modem or

whatever. For now, I'm just going to do

my modem, my router, which is

192.168.1.1.

Uh I don't I I'm not sure what yours is,

but to figure that out, what you can run

is there's this thing called net

discover, which basically stands for

network discover. And you can see, okay,

I need to be root for this. Just type in

pseudo.

And you can see it's going to find other

network devices. So devices connected to

the same network. And uh yours should be

like it should tell you what that is. Um

so you can see here this is my modem. It

actually says there. And uh if I do end

mapap, okay, you know the popular

command ping. So you you you send a ping

request to see if it's up and running.

End mapap basically does this request

where it sends out a like a a request to

see if that service or if that port is

open then bring back that result. So

this is what MAP is doing. So if I do

MAPAP and then supply the address, it's

going to go out and perform the scan to

see if there's any services or open

ports is what it's called to try and

test or probe it further. Um, so the

reason why would we a hacker would do

this is to understand how a system works

so they can find a loophole and

potentially gain access to a vulnerable

piece of software in that service. So

it's kind of like that and end mapap is

very helpful in finding these um open

ports and services because you can see

here right away it just displayed that

information. So what are we looking at?

So we've got the port, we've got the

state of the port. So if it's opened, if

the port's closed or filtered, you can

see here and also the service like what

that port is. So we got port 22 on my

network is SSH. So we got a SSH machine

or a session open. We've got port 53. So

there's the HTTPS website running.

That's why we've got two uh ports here

which are related with HTTPS which means

there's a website running and it's open

which is the modem website which we you

actually log in to uh see devices on

your network.

And also you've got these other ports

here. I mean we've got this port here

which is unknown which I don't know what

that is. We could take a look at that a

little bit further. But this is not

really necessarily um anything serious,

but it's pretty cool to play around with

a tool like MAP. I know how how basic it

sounds, but it's really cool because you

could do certain things with it. Um

there's certain like commands and

parameters that you can add to the uh

like inmap tool to perform a in-depth

scan. Uh these are just basic defaults.

But if you type in mm map-h what this

will do is you can actually see all

these parameters that you can actually

run with the tool in map that performs a

certain outcome which is also very nice.

But this is something we can take a look

at in another popular tool that I

usually use or ethical hackers would use

strictly like website penetration

testers is a tool called what web. Now

this isn't like a dangerous tool or

anything. All this does, it just visits

a website and then grabs information

about the website in the headers.

Essentially, what what that would

include is is like what the website's

made in. If I do my website, if I do

declan.com, it's going to go ahead and

it's going to banner grab or grab that

information from my website like uh what

is the website running on, what is it

using, where's it being hosted, um you

know, all that information. So, you can

see here this is this is my thing. Uh,

by the way, this is if you see this

here, like this IP, this isn't my IP.

This is actually where my website is

hosted. So, if you if you know someone

does something silly to this IP address,

uh, you will be in trouble. Not by me,

by the company of Versel. It's just to

give you another perspective on what you

can do with what web. Uh, what web isn't

supposed to identify an IP address. It's

just to form that request to see what

the website's using. So, you can see

here I'm using Versel to host my

website. Now you can also if you were

like a malicious actor you could just go

on Google search up a vulnerable piece

of software or something related to

Versel which I doubt anyways that's kind

of what you would do is identify that

information and then go ahead and do

your research to find if there's any

vulnerable pieces of versions of that

software with the information that you

have to then potentially run against the

target or run against something's

vulnerable. It's just something to keep

in mind of what web basically stands for

what web technologies like what website

what is the website running and what are

we taking a look at. So that's why it's

called what web and uh it's very nice.

It's very nice. So another common tool

that hackers would use or ethical

hackers would use is a tool called

metas-loit. This is a framework that has

a lot of like modules and exploitation

scripts just a lot of like code

pre-written code for vulnerable versions

of software programs like I was just

speaking about before. So in order to

run this framework we can type in MSF

console which is actually the

metas-ploit framework console which we

can actually run in our terminal to use

metas-ploit. Um, so Metas-ploit just

basically it's just a tool that has, as

you can see here, 2529

exports. And you're probably thinking,

"Wow, what could you do with that?" Um,

there's a lot of stuff here that you can

take a look at, but it's actually just a

huge library. So, think of like this.

It's like a huge library of like

payloads, exploits, scanners to test

certain versions of systems. That's kind

of what this is. So, let's say I had

like an old version of

uh like SSH or something. You can type

in search SSH like login or whatever.

And you can see right away as I typed in

search, this is built into the

framework. If I type that again, you can

see here I can use different modules,

exploitation modules or even auxiliary

modules, which basically means testing.

It's not actually attacking it any in

any way. So auxiliary modules just tests

it. Uh so I can actually use these

modules which is just pre-written code

to run against the target to perform

something specific like login or testing

the login or maybe like testing

something like this. Look auxiliary

scanner SSH login. So can we try to log

into the version of SSH? Um SSH is just

like another network tool that allows

you to log in and share files and have

remote access to something. Right? Let's

say I had like an old version of Apache

2 or sorry not Apache 2 just Apache.

So Apache Tomcat like that's a good one.

So like if I search Apache

uh Tomcat

we can see here everything to do with

Apache Tomcat. So over the years

Metas-boy is you know always being

developed. I mean look at this one here

2025. This is very recent and it's an

excellent exploitation module against

Tomcat. So, this is actually quite

recent, but it's always being added on.

It's always been updated because it's a

very handy framework to just get that

testing going to just quickly gain

access or to enumerate further as a

penetration tester to see if the system

is you know flawed or flawless and you

know we proceed with something else

right. So, metas-ploit framework is very

handy in that sense. It's really great

to test systems and test even networks

and old versions of software because you

might just gain access or even better

you might have shell access and then you

could do what we spoke about in the

beginning privilege escalation which is

a major vulnerability in system. So

metas-loit is great. I use it all the

time when I do hack the box retired

machines. It's really good to get your

hands uh on this framework and get good

with it. It's amazing. I think the last

the last thing that I want to talk about

is a thing called search exploit. So

metas-ploit framework has this connected

to what's called a search exploit

website. So there's a website that you

can actually go to. So if I open up my

Firefox browser here, there's actually a

website and it should be bookmarked

here. Okay, it's actually not but it's

called search exploit. So or it's also

called exploitd. So if I go to

exploitdb.com,

it's just like a manual. It's just like

a a website where you can see uh the

latest exploits or people who uploaded

exploits um to test a system, right? Or

website or a vulnerability on a service,

right? But you don't have to go to the

website. You can actually just type in

search exploit on your terminal. For

example, let's do what we did with

metas. So if I do search exploit, let's

search for an exploit related to Tomcat.

Right? Right away, it does the same

thing. Right? So if something's not

already in metas-loit, you can just use

search boy to find that version of

software. So let's say it had a

particular version here that you could

you know test or run the exploit would

be in one of these files. Now these are

text files but you would get something

like this. So denial of service

obviously don't suggest that don't want

to do that but there's like Python sorry

yeah Python files Ruby files here. So

you gotpy Ruby you've got Pearl scripts

here as well. Let's try and do something

like PHP

upload vulnerability or something like

that. So we can do arbitrary. So for

this version of software here called ZOM

ZOM plugg 3.8 uh we can do arbitrary

file upload. So this is just a service

that we can perform a like upload our

files to. Uh we've got the exploit here.

So this is just a PHP reverse shell

which means we can gain access to the

server. Um, so you can see here there's

a lot of like exploits that we could use

even with WordPress and all types of

software, right? So I mean you've got

this script here. So this this ID number

here is to do with Python. So we could

run this Python script to perform this

file upload vulnerability, right? So to

actually find or locate or even get this

script like to even use it, you can

actually just copy this location of the

script here. So go ahead and copy that.

So we can just go ahead and copy this

path name, not like the Python file. But

what we can do is let's just do the

exact same thing again and it will still

do that. But you can see here the path

is here. So we can just go ahead and

just type in copy the path name. And

then we could just rename it to

exploit.py at the end of the file name.

We just can call it exploit.py related

to that service. And now if I type in

ls, you can actually see here the

exploits on my desktop. So you can see

there there's the exploit. But we can

actually go ahead and actually read this

exploit by let's just type in nano. So

nano is where you can actually see and

edit files in on your terminal. So type

in exploit.py and we can actually read

everything to do with this exploit and

this vulnerability. So this is all the

code that makes it work so that we could

gain access to the server. So it's just

like a a nice helpful way to navigate

and just quickly get that exploit

running just to test the system so that

we can provide further information. I

forgot to mention one more thing is that

this operating system is running what's

called DBN Linux

which is highly customizable and this

Linux environment is called XFCE which

is a lightweight version for Ki Linux as

a Linux dro. Anyways,

another handy thing that you can do is

when you open up the terminal and let's

say you want to see what your IP address

is on your Linux machine, you can type

in if config and essentially this

command on Linux will give you the

information needed to understand what is

your IP address for your system.

So if I come up here, you can see I have

Ethernet zero and you can see this

address here is my IP address for my

local computer on my network. So this is

just only LAN local area network IP

address. So this is just the network

your computer IP on your main network.

So yours might say WLAN or WLAN0.

Mine says ETH0. And then this would be

your IP address for your machine. So

let's learn a little bit of like system

commands here because you're going to be

doing this when you do hack the box and

all that type of stuff. So I'm just

going to go through some basic commands

that you can take note of. Um we can

type in unname a and essentially this

will just pull information already from

your system from the color Linux machine

uh about what the operating system is

running. Um so if you did this on a

different Linux distribution it will

pull something else. Um, but it's just

good to bring in that information

because let's say I had access to a

machine, a Linux machine specifically,

and I did unname a it would tell me what

that is. So I could just further

identify more system information.

Another good thing is to run a command

called top. This basically just shows

real time system processes. So think

like task manager on Windows. This is

like that but for Linux. And we can see

uh the P ID, the process ID of the

current program that is open. Um so

we've got basically the root user

running uh in the background here. So we

got the user Ki and then we got the user

root on this session. Uh you can also

see like what is this command associated

with. So this is the terminal. Our

default user Ki Linux user is using

that. Um so you can just press Ctrl C to

go out of it. Um let's actually become a

root user. So the way that you do that

is you by typing pseudo sue just like

that. And by the way pseudo stands for

super user do. So that's why you what

why you type in pseudo when you want to

run a command that needs root uh access

because it prevents you from running

root programs that is not installed on

your system or not. So when you run

pseudo it's running it with root

privileges. So super user which is root

and then do. So that's what pseudo

stands for. Super user do and then so

what we're saying here is we're saying

super user do become super user. Sounds

a little bit weird but that's how it is.

We just it's just pseudo sue. You just

become root and then you're good to go.

And uh you can see we are the root user.

So if we actually delete files and

upload files etc. we delete files, move

files, copy files around the system.

Let's actually check another one. So

let's see if this is installed. So this

is not installed. We can actually go

ahead and install it. So if you type

that and just press Y, it's going to go

ahead and install this command. Uh if

it's installed by default, that's great.

You can just run it. But essentially

HTTOP

is basically what we did before with

top. HTOP is a improved process monitor,

right? So it's exactly like top where we

can see real-time processes, but HTOP

gives you like more of a visualized, you

know, just with colors essentially. like

it just makes it more readable instead

of just looking at white text. The

really cool thing about it is that you

can sort through it um and just copy it

and copy note of it which is very nice.

Uh let's type in free-m

is basically memory that's being used

right now. It's just memory usage

really. That's all that is. There's

nothing too much to it. You can type in

uptime. So there's another Linux

command. If you type in uptime, you can

just see which user has been running for

a certain period of time.

Okay, great. So, we learned a little bit

of some system commands on Linux. Let's

take a look at more networking commands.

So, I showed you fconfig.

So, that's fconfig. We can also do IPA,

which is basically what I showed you

before. We we can identify our host

address on a network. So, you can see

that this is our address. And if you

scroll up here, there's more

information. But that is another great

way to kind of type less instead of

doing that. So you just type in IPA

which is great. Um if config same thing

ping. So ping is just a tool a built-in

command line utility tool to test a

address. So if I was to test my router

on my network, the router, the modem

that gives me access to the internet. If

I just ping it, it just sends request to

the router and then it brings back the

request saying it is up and running. So

if let's say that a server was down or a

website IP address was down and you try

to ping it and then it wasn't pinging,

right? It sent requests but it wasn't

receiving anything that's why it says

unreachable then that means it's down.

Ping is a great utility tool to identify

if a network is stable or not.

Another great Linux command is netstat

which basically just shows open

information like open ports on your

system as well. Um but to specifically

filter this out we can type in net stat.

So go ahead and type in netstat and type

in tn

tulin like this. So this can actually

just show you like which ports are

specifically open. So we've got UDP

ports here, but there's not actually

anything running right now as as active

connection. So there's nothing on here.

Another great one is called trace route.

So if you don't know what trace route

is, so trace route just identifies that

specific route to that host. So it just

bounces. It hops to that host until it

gets to the first address. Right? So

let's say we do trace route declan.com.

Right? It goes from our address, but it

actually does a hop to go back to the

original address. It just shows each

hop. So, it like hops. It's like, okay,

checking this route, checking this

route, checking this route till we get

to the main address that may leak info

about it, like ISP, hosting provider,

the location of the data center, um, or

network segmentation or something like

that. It's just finding and discovering

devices, right? called

misisconfigurations. It's it's another

thing that you could use trace route to

show each hop or router or gateway

between the um attacker or the

investigator and the target. So this

will basically reveal how data travels

across the internet or local networks

which helps understand the structure of

the target network and potential access

points. So that's what you would use

trace route for. But this isn't anything

malicious. It's just bunny hopping. It's

just hopping uh on different network

requests. So, it's just to investigate

more information about like where's the

main address located. Um like uncovering

those details. That's all that is. So,

we took a look at networking commands.

Now, let's focus on some process and

service management commands on Linux. So

like I showed you before about showing

you know processes we could do ps uh aux

which will list the current processes

running on the system. So we don't

actually have to look at that

specifically. But if I was to like open

up firefox. So let me just open up

firefox. So Firefox is running. If I go

back and type in ps aux you can actually

come up here and actually see firefox

running. So you can actually see the

specific session of Firefox that's

running on the system. So if I come down

here um there should be so these were

the commands that I was running prior

but there needs to be okay here we go.

So you can you can see there I'm running

Firefox and you can actually see the

associated um browser. So this is the

one here. So this is the P. So the P is

this and we can actually go ahead and

destroy this session by typing in the

Linux command called kill. So this will

just go ahead and just destroy that

session by just closing that P ID. So if

I do if I copy that P ID and I paste it

in, you can see there the browser's

gone. So if I do that again, if I open

up the browser

and then if I find that it would still

be here. So you can see if I come to the

latest, this is the processor that has

opened for that particular browser. And

if I go here, I can actually destroy

that process by typing in kill and then

the process ID that spawned. And there

we go. It forced closed the browser

completely. It destroyed the session so

that the browser just closed. Right? So

it's not actually running in the

background nor is it running at all. It

just destroyed the process, the session

and just closing the browser completely.

So to start services on Linux, this is

another thing I want to talk about is,

you know, let's say you want to run a

web server. Let's say just for

educational reasons, you want to set up

like a a test page, like a fishing page,

right? um or you want to run your own

web server off your Linux machine on

your local area network. Um you've

actually got Apache 2 installed which is

basically what you would host your

servers on, right? Sorry, your your

files on to host your server. So you can

type in um service Apache 2 which is the

service and then you can type in start.

So if you type in service Apache to

start. So the command service allows you

to run certain services on your system.

So you can run other services. It

doesn't just have to be Apache. whatever

is installed that you can run the

command service. You can just type in

start and then it will go ahead and

start that particular service. So now

Apache 2 is running and like I said

before if we do IPA and we actually go

to our network address sorry our IP

address of our machine and go to that

local port number of the web address

that's running. So Apache 2 will spawn a

web server and uh you can see here this

is on our machine. This is a website

running on our machine. Uh this is just

the default page, but if you upload like

your own code like HTML CSS into this

directory. So you can type in cd /bar

www/html.

And if you go into this directory,

you can see here that's actually what's

being hosted in front of us right now.

So if I actually delete this, so let's

use our Linux commands. So let's copy

this. Copy the whole thing including

this file and this file. Now if I type

in remove, we don't have to do pseudo

because we already root. If I do remove

remove fully and just paste in the files

I want to delete. Enter. We can see here

if I refresh this whole page will

disappear. There we go. So the the HTML

files were deleted. Now there's nothing

on the web page. But we can make our own

HTML file. So if we type in touch. So

this is going to go ahead and create a

file. So touch, let's call it

index.html.

And if we press enter, we type in ls,

it's there. But there's nothing on the

web page, of course, because we actually

need to write the code for the the web

page. So, let's use some of our Linux

skills. So, let's type in nano index

html to go into that file and edit it.

Now, we can actually edit the file. You

can edit whatever you want in this file

and it will show up on the website. But

if you don't know HTML, I won't go too

much into it, but let's just type in a

header. So, let's write some code, some

basic HTML code. So, this is what you

call a header tag. So let's just it's

just a header of a website. Uh so if we

type in header test, we could just say

heading one and we close that. Just like

that. That's a heading. You can just

call it heading if you want

or whatever you want. Test or my

website.

My cool website.

And then you press control X on Windows

or command X on um Mac if you're on Mac

or like VMware Fusion. And then you just

press Y to save and then press enter.

There we go. Now it's saved the file.

Now if we go back and refresh, there we

go. It's a title. It's the heading of

the website. So there we go. So our

website's running because we used the

the command service to run the Apache

server. We went into the directory,

added our own file. Um, so you can see

how this can be beneficial, which is

very cool. So let's go cd. Just go back

to the main directory. We're done with

that. And let's just type in service

Apache 2 stop. So if you go back, if you

do that whole thing again and you go

back, copy your IP address, paste it in

the browser on port 80. You go to it, it

the website's not going to be running

because we close the session by running

service Apache 2 stop. So we stop this

service. So that's another great uh

utility tool built into Linux for us to

run specific services. Um if you want to

see like service status, so you can type

in systemctl.

So systemctl will actually you know

analyze or actually list what services

are running. So you can type in like

let's say status for

Apache 2, right? We can see here it's

disabled. So it's not running, right? It

says inactive. So it's not active

currently. Uh but if we type in if we go

back and type in service Apache 2 start

right and then systemctl

status to see the status the current

status of Apache 2. We can see that it's

currently active. So now it's running.

So systemct ctl is a great way to see

what services are running on the system.

So you can type in system status for SSH

if you're running SSH. I'm not running

SSH but you can see there um if it was

running it will say it's running. So you

can actually pick what service so or

Apache or SSH or something else like

Telnet or FTP. Okay, I don't actually

have FTP um but whatever whatever it can

be right and what I like about systemctl

as well what I like about systemctl is

that you can actually enable and disable

these services at boot time. So let's

say you boot up Kylie Linux and it's

just automatically running, right? Um or

you just want to boot up K Linux and you

don't want to have anything running. You

don't want to have this this service

running at all. Um you can actually

enable that. So you can type in

systemcttl enable and then the service

name. So it could be SSH like I said or

even Apache 2. So when you boot up Ky

Linux, Apache 2 is already running. So

if you do that, it will set it to that.

So when I restart Linux and I boot it up

again, Apache 2 will be running. But we

don't want to do that because we don't

want anyone else browsing on our cool

website, right? So let's just disable

that. So we can type in disable and it

will just disable that functionality. So

when we boot up Linux K Linux or you can

even do this on YUbuntu Linux, uh it

will disable that service from running

once you boot it up. Great. So we took a

look at process and service management.

Now let's look at package management. So

what I showed you in the beginning was

we updated our operating system. We use

the AP package manager to upgrade

certain uh kernel files etc. We just

updated the whole operating system for

Ki Linux to make sure all the tools all

the software that we will use as a

penetration tester is up to date and it

is functional. But let's actually take a

look at package management like Linux

commands for package management a little

bit further. So I showed you now we are

in root. We don't actually have to type

root anymore. Um but we can say you know

apt update make sure it's updated.

That's great. We can do that. It's going

to go to the uh Linux mirror repository

and actually download all packages to

make sure and ensure it's updated. The

next one is upgrade. So, we've upgraded

that. We don't we don't need to do that

again. And by the way, I don't think it

will go through that. Yeah, there we go.

You can see that it's already upgraded

the whole thing. So, we automatically

installed and no longer required to

update it. Okay, that's great. If you

want to install a specific package, you

can type in apt install and then like a

package name. Like we saw before, we had

to you can actually install something

specific. So you can type in apt

install. Let's say Python Python 3,

right? It's already installed. But if

you didn't have Python 3, you can

actually select what package you want to

install on this repository, the K Linux

repository, and it will go ahead and

download that package for you. And by

the way, everything's already

preconfigured with Ki Linux. So it's

absolutely brilliant to have this

operating system for you because you can

just get straight into it and learn. If

you want to remove a package, which I

don't suggest unless it's like malicious

or something like that or you just don't

want it, you can just type in apt remove

and then the file name. So obviously not

Python 3. We don't want to remove Python

3. We need that to run certain scripts,

but you can type in apt remove and then

the file name, but we don't need to do

that. In order to see what packages

we've installed, we can actually type in

apt list and then installed like this to

see what packages are installed on our

operating system for Kylie Linux. So

what packages have we installed already

when we upgraded the system like what

are the packages that we have just

installed. So these there's a lot of

lines here to go through but we can see

here these are some of the basic. So we

got Apache 2, we upgraded that. That's

brilliant. Uh we've got the add user

command as well. A crackeng which is a

tool for cracking Wi-Fi wireless

networks. Um sevenzip for zipping files.

So there's a lot of packages here that

have been updated uh or even downloaded

installed already preconfigured on KO

Linux. Let's explore this a little bit

further. Let's say that you want to

review all the commands we've typed out

already.

So you can actually type in history.

This is a command that will allow us to

see what commands we've typed out

previously. And you can see how helpful

this can be to navigate through a

system, to navigate through our own

machine on Ki Linux, or to even just

remember commands now and then. What I

find really interesting about Ki Linux

or just Linux in general is that you can

actually search for a specific file on

Linux, especially if it's like deep in

the system, like in your files, etc.,

and you can't find it. So let's say you

So let me go ahead and actually create a

file. Uh let's let's just create a

random file in a uh folder really

quickly. Let's let's do it in our opt

folder. So this is just an optional

directory folder. So let's say I created

a file called test.ext,

right? And I go out completely. I'm not

even associated with that user and I

just I'm the regular user as well. That

doesn't really matter. But we can

actually type in find slash the name of

that file. So find is a command in Linux

slash is searching through the entire

operating system or just the entire

system for a file name. So we say find

slashname for that file and we can find

test.ext

and just by doing this it's going to say

permission denied. So, we don't actually

have permissions to do that. But we can

go back and type in pseudo find file

text, right? It's also going to say

permission denied. But we can also see

here there's a lot of other files called

test.ext,

which I find really interesting. But you

can actually see down here. So, with it

searching throughout the whole entire

operating system for other files called

test.ext, you can actually see here,

this is actually where we added our own

file in the optional directory. So, we

can see /opt, that's where we were,

slashext.

test.ext. So you can see how the find

slash So you can see how helpful the

find utility command in Linux can be

helpful for searching through the entire

system to find a specific file. It could

be a word list or a directory or

whatever it is. So it's absolutely

brilliant. So like when you do hack the

box and you gain access, you can try and

find the user flag by typing in find if

you have privilege access privilege

access which is great. And that's the

end of the video. So, we covered a lot

of uh Linux commands in this video and I

hope you learn a lot. If you got any

questions, just reach out to me or just

do some research online. Go on Google,

search up a few things. If you don't

understand it, uh you know, search up

Linux commands on Google or on YouTube

and you can also find and watch other

videos related to Linux. Uh Linux is a

really cool operating system. There's a

lot of Linux distributions out there.

It's not just Ki Linux. You've got

Yubuntu, Arch Linux, K Yubuntu, even

lightweight versions of like other Linux

distros, which is really good. Ki Linux

is strictly made for penetration

testing. It's made for penetration

testers to do all their tasks to be a

hacker, an ethical hacker to be a

penetration tester, which I find really

cool, right? And a lot of people use it

um especially me I use it a lot to

perform security uh tests on my website.

Uh I use it because it has all the stuff

and all the tools preconfigured for me

to run and test my software or even do

like cool videos like this. Yeah. So

it's good. I thank you for watching this

video. I've tried to cover a lot of

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