Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install amass on Kali Linux.
What is amass
amass is:
This package contains a tool to help information security professionals
perform network mapping of attack surfaces and perform external asset
discovery using open source information gathering and active reconnaissance
techniques.
Information Gathering Techniques Used:
– DNS: Basic enumeration, Brute forcing (upon request), Reverse DNS
sweeping, Subdomain name alterations/permutations, Zone transfers (upon
request)
– Scraping: Ask, Baidu, Bing, DNSDumpster, DNSTable, Dogpile, Exalead,
Google, HackerOne, IPv4Info, Netcraft, PTRArchive, Riddler, SiteDossier,
ViewDNS, Yahoo
– Certificates: Active pulls (upon request), Censys, CertSpotter, Crtsh,
Entrust, GoogleCT
– APIs: AlienVault, BinaryEdge, BufferOver, CIRCL, CommonCrawl, DNSDB,
HackerTarget, Mnemonic, NetworksDB, PassiveTotal, RADb, Robtex,
SecurityTrails, ShadowServer, Shodan, Spyse (CertDB & FindSubdomains),
Sublist3rAPI, TeamCymru, ThreatCrowd, Twitter, Umbrella, URLScan,
VirusTotal
– Web Archives: ArchiveIt, ArchiveToday, Arquivo, LoCArchive,
OpenUKArchive, UKGovArchive, Wayback
This package contains the command amass.
There are three methods to install amass on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install amass Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install amass using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install amassInstall amass Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install amass using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install amassInstall amass Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install amass using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install amass
How To Uninstall amass on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the amass package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove amass
Uninstall amass And Its Dependencies
To uninstall amass and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove amass
Remove amass Configurations and Data
To remove amass configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge amass
Remove amass configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove amass configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge amass
Dependencies
amass have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install amass package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
