Kali VM for course/exercises
Based on Kali 2022.1 &.2 .3

1. Default Keymap is in English us use the menu and type keyboard to change in a GUI
2. not for use in production
3. sudo without password, 99% of the following commands were run in a root user shell → be a (wo)man ! run as root

From: Kali VMs Images
Docs: Virtualbox Doc
Unzip the file downloaded then import the .vbox file, using “Add” in Virtualbox.

Things to do to make this VM work on our environment:

1. Download and import into VirtualBox (I didn't test it in on VMWare's hypervisors' family, but it should work, same for UTM/KVM/Proxmox)
2. Verify or change settings (copy/paste, numbers of CPUs/RAM, Network interfaces - I prefer to bridge them but NAT is OK too, …) by clicking on the settings buttons
3. snapshot, so the next modifications can be reversed to the original state.
4. resize display once logged in (see underneath login/pass) type “display” in the “start menu”, a “Display” application will help you resize the screen to your need - also check underneath on Display size to make it correct
5. Add what you miss (bookmarks/docs/scripts/software/…)

using Display in Settings and set it up doesn't work as Virtualbox tries to resize it ( for your security …). You need to set it up by hand:

Menu > Settings > Power Manager then in the Tab “Security”:

• Automatically lock the session: Never
• Uncheck “Lock screen when system is going to sleep”

sudo su

Then as root

apt update && apt install htop ccze dfc iftop libreoffice libreoffice-l10n-de libreoffice-l10n-fr parcellite zaproxy

Here for the kali user, replace by yours if you made another

 vi /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

[Seat:*]
autologin-user=kali
autologin-user-timeout=0

 useradd -m warnaud
usermod -aG ad,dialout,cdrom,floppy,sudo,audio,dip,video,plugdev,netdev,wireshark,bluetooth,kali-trusted,scanner,vboxsf,kaboxer warnaud
chsh -s /usr/bin/zsh warnaud
passwd warnaud

Log-out and log in to update all ENV variables ($SHELL etc …)

The group kali-trusted can launch sudo commands without password

 usermod -aG kali-trusted kali

Note: replace kali by your user if you prefer to have a dedicated user

apt -y install curl gnupg2 apt-transport-https software-properties-common ca-certificates
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster stable" | sudo tee  /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/debian/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
cd
apt update
apt install -y docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
systemctl enable docker --now
usermod -aG docker kali
curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep browser_download_url  | grep docker-compose-linux-x86_64 | cut -d '"' -f 4 | wget -qi -
mv docker-compose-linux-x86_64 /usr/bin/docker-compose
chmod +x /usr/bin/docker-compose

sudo apt install -y python2 python2.7-dev libpython2-dev
curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py --output get-pip.py
sudo python2 get-pip.py
sudo python2 -m pip install -U setuptools wheel

cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility.git
echo "#! /usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/python2  /opt/volatility/vol.py \$@" > /usr/local/bin/volatility
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/volatility
git clone https://github.com/volatilityfoundation/volatility3.git
ln -s /opt/volatility3/vol.py /usr/local/bin/volatility3
 
python2 -m pip install -U distorm3 yara pycrypto pillow openpyxl ujson pytz ipython capstone
sudo python2 -m pip install yara
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/usr/lib/libyara.so /usr/lib/libyara.so

From : Github nullsecurity

apt install dh-autoreconf pkg-config cmake
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/snort3/libdaq.git
cd libdaq
./bootstrap
./configure
make install
ldconfig
 
cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/snort3/snort3.git
cd snort3
./configure\_cmake.sh --prefix=$HOME/install/snort3 --enable-unit-tests

DOESN'T work…

From: https://upcloud.com/resources/tutorials/installing-snort-on-debian

apt install -y gcc libpcre3-dev zlib1g-dev libluajit-5.1-dev libpcap-dev openssl libssl-dev libnghttp2-dev libdumbnet-dev bison flex libdnet autoconf libtool
cd /opt
mkdir snort_src
cd snort_src
wget https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/daq-2.0.7.tar.gz
tar xvzf daq-2.0.7.tar.gz
cd daq-2.0.7
autoreconf -f -i
./configure && make && make install
cd /opt/snort_src
wget https://www.snort.org/downloads/snort/snort-2.9.20.tar.gz
tar xvzf snort-2.9.20.tar.gz
cd snort-2.9.20
./configure --enable-sourcefire CPPFLAGS="-I /usr/include/tirpc" && make && make install
ldconfig
groupadd snort
useradd snort -r -s /sbin/nologin -c SNORT_IDS -g snort
mkdir -p /etc/snort/rules
mkdir -p /var/log/snort
mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicrules
chmod -R 5775 /etc/snort
chmod -R 5775 /var/log/snort
chmod -R 5775 /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicrules
chown -R snort:snort /etc/snort
chown -R snort:snort /var/log/snort
chown -R snort:snort /usr/local/lib/snort_dynamicrules
touch /etc/snort/rules/white_list.rules
touch /etc/snort/rules/black_list.rules
touch /etc/snort/rules/local.rules
cp /opt/snort_src/snort-2.9.20/etc/*.conf* /etc/snort
cp /opt/snort_src/snort-2.9.20/etc/*.map /etc/snort
cd /opt/snort_src
wget https://www.snort.org/rules/community -O ./community.tar.gz
tar xvzf community.tar.gz
cp /opt/snort_src/community-rules/* /etc/snort/rules
sudo sed -i 's/include $RULE_PATH/#include $RULE_PATH/' /etc/snort/snort.conf
vi /etc/snort/snort.conf

DOESN'T WORK EITHER !!!!

From : https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/584144/unable-to-locate-package-snort - modified to reflect last Debian 11 version

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian bullseye main

bullseye as kali is now rolling release so put a current version might → testing doesn't work ! (as of 20/07/2022)

apt update
apt install snort

comment the line deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian bullseye main

dpkg-reconfigure snort

You can change the default IP range of $HOME_NET (default is 10.0.2.0/24 aka VirtualBox's VLAN)

 vi /etc/snort/rules/local.rules

alert tcp any any -> any any (msg:"Basic test please comment in local.rules"; sid:10000001; rev:001;)

snort -A console -i eth0 -u snort -g snort -c /etc/snort/snort.conf

Now launch a web browser or anything that goes on the internet using tcp stack

Uncomment the line in /etc/apt/sources.list with debian repos then apt update && apt upgrade snort

apt install apt-transport-https curl
 
sudo curl -fsSLo /usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg
 
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/brave-browser-archive-keyring.gpg arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main"|sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
 
apt update
 
apt install brave-browser

You can add Nala following the instructions from their Wiki on any Debian/Ubuntu VMs

echo "deb https://deb.volian.org/volian/ scar main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/volian-archive-scar-unstable.list
wget -qO - https://deb.volian.org/volian/scar.key | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/volian-archive-scar-unstable.gpg > /dev/null
apt update
apt install nala

(if you install from scratch with the ISO - not needed if you already imported the OVA/premade images)

css user is member of the sudo group

sudo visudo

%sudo  ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

not mandatory, only for barebone install, images from Kali have necessary tools already installed Insert the virtual CD

cd /media/cdrom0
sudo  bash ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
sudo usermod -aG vboxsf kali

Under hyperV you should set this option to get the most of the VM

C:\Windows\system32> Set-VM "Kali Linux" -EnhancedSessionTransportType HVSocket 

if your web browser seems laggy or make your whole VM laggy, just activate the 3D acceleration: Settings > Display and check “Enable 3D acceleration”

• https://computingforgeeks.com/install-docker-and-docker-compose-on-kali-linux/
• https://seanthegeek.net/1172/how-to-install-volatility-2-and-volatility-3-on-debian-ubuntu-or-kali-linux/
• https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Using+Yara+rules+with+Volatility/22950/
• https://bin3xish477.medium.com/installing-snort-on-kali-linux-9c96f3ab2910