Skipfish – Penetration Testing tool in Kali Linux
Skipfish is a free, open-source Automated Penetration Testing tool available on GitHub made for security researchers. Skipfish is used for information gathering and testing the security of websites and web servers. Skipfish is the easiest and one of the best tools for penetration testing. It provides many integrated tools to perform penetration testing on the target system. This tool is also known as an active web application security reconnaissance tool. This tool functions and makes a map on the console of the targeted site using recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. This tool gives us all the security checks that are active in the domain. Lastly, this tool generates a report which can be further used for security assessments. Skipfish is an active web application security reconnaissance tool. It prepares an interactive sitemap for the targeted site by carrying out a recursive crawl and dictionary-based probes. The resulting map is then annotated with the output from a number of active (but hopefully non-disruptive) security checks. The final report generated by the tool is meant to serve as a foundation for professional web application security assessments.
Features and Uses of Skipfish tools :
Skipfish is Open source intelligence tool.
Skipfish can track enumeration.
Skipfish is a fully automated tool.
Skipfish has more than 15 modules that can be used for penetration testing.
Skipfish is used to scanning websites and web apps.
Skipfish is used to scan content management systems(CMS).
Skipfish can find vulnerabilities in CMS, eg. WordPress, Joomla, etc.
Skipfish has a large number of modules, such as metagoofil, wananga, etc.
Installation
There are the two way to download skipfish in kali linux.
1). How to install skipfish in kali linux : sudo apt install skipfish
Installed size: 559 KB
Althrough you direct download with command
2). Git clone https://github.com/kalilinux/packages/skipfish.git
skipfish basic command :-
1) skipfish -h (*h for help*)
2) skipfish -o <paste output file path > -u <enter full url > (* o for output and u for full url *)
Ex:-- skipfish -o /root/Desktop/sidharth.txt -u https://192.168.0.0
Ex :-- skipfish -o /root/Desktop/sidharth.txt -u https://www.google.com/
Ex:-- skipfish -o ./Download -u http://192.168.0.0/wordpress/dvwa
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