BackTrack 4: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

Appendix A. Supplementary Tools

This appendix will present several additional tools that can be used as extra weapons while conducting the penetration testing process. For each tool we will describe:

• The purpose of the tool
• The tool installation process
• Examples of the tool usage whenever possible

The tools mentioned are not installed by default in BackTrack. You need to install it by yourself from the BackTrack repository or from the the tools website.

We will loosely divide the tools into the following categories:

• Vulnerability scanner
• Web application fingerprinter
• Network ballista tool

Let's see several additional tools we can use during our penetration testing process.

Vulnerability scanner

BackTrack by default comes with OpenVAS as the vulnerability ...