REVIEW : Bugtraq 2 Black Widow Final

Bugtraq 2 Black Widow Final builds on Ubuntu, Debian and OpenSuse. Each distribution comes with XFce, Gnome and KDE Window Manager. They all also come with 32-bit and 64-bit. A total of 18 copies that the Bugtraq Team needs to maintain.

Bugtraq 2 Black Widow pre-installed and configured some useful Penetration Testing tools that others Pentesting Linux distributions lack of. It also includes smartphone pentesting tools. It will be sweet if Bugtraq 2 can pre-installed Immunity Debugger and edb-debugger as well as T50 and mona.py.

The Conky displays a lot of useful information on the screen that most hackers will think fit. However, the Conky script is designed for 4-core (or 2-core with Hyper-threading). If you have 2-core, you need to change the /bugtraq/scripts/conky/conky-app.sh. Replace "conky -c /bugtraq/scripts/conky/.conkyrc &" with "conky -c /bugtraq/scripts/conky/.conkyrc2 &". Otherwise, the Conky will not loaded.

Bugtraq 2 is also lack of documentation like others. However, you can find a lot of demo video at her official site. There are some interesting demo video, such as bonet setting.

Bugtraq 2 is working well on virtual machine, such as VirtualBox and Parallels (Mac OSX). I tested on Lenovo ThinkPad X201s and find no problem with Ubuntu XFce and Gnome versions.

Bugtraq Team comes from Spain and the Bugtraq 2 Black Widow is default to Spain language and Spain keyboard layout. When you install Bugtraq 2 Black Widow, you need to set the language to English and keyboard layout to "English (US)" or your country setting. The default username is "bugtraq" and password is "123456". Make sure you set your password after install.

I tested Ubuntu Gnome and XFce copies and find that XFce version has lesser bugs. I think that the team is developed from Ubuntu XFce and then build for others based on it. Therefore, I suggest you to download Ubuntu XFce version.

Bugtraq 2 Black Widow comes with Services Administrator GUI and Databases GUI as well as Conky Manager. However, there are some bugs on those programs. The 2 GUI are situated at "Applications -- System Services".

I prepared an auto-run script to fix the bugs on those programs and you can download it at here. it works well on 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu Gnome and XFce version. Others not tested but it may works.

The bugfix script is intended to fix the bugs on the Sagui and DBgui. However, it also fix some minor bugs on Conky. Be keep in mind that the official Conky is written for wireless device (wlan0) while my bugfix script is also written for wlan0. If you are using ethernet device, you need to change the "wlan0" to "eth0" (or any device that fits) on the "+.conkyrc" and "proxys.conf" scripts in the "bugtraq-2-gnome-x32-bugix" directory. Make sure you change it before running the bugfix script. In addition, the script will install some missing packages too.

Extract it with the following command :

tar -xvzf bugtraq-2-gnome-x32-bugfix.tar.gz

To run it :

cd bugtraq-2-gnome-x32-bugfix
./auto-bugfix.sh

In addition, there are some bugs on Hammer System Manager and it requires the team to fix.

After the install, you need to update your box. You can do that with the following commands. Or, you can build a script for that too.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get --purge autoclean
sudo apt-get --purge auto remove

Conclusion

Highly recommended. Bugtraq 2 Black Widow will give you a new user experience. You will love it. Believe me!

UPDATE

The auto-run script has been updated for minor bug fix on Conky script, you can download at here



That's all! See you.

HOWTO : Rebuild Kali Linux 1.0.1 for Xfce 4 Desktop

This article has been deleted for several days due to this reason. However, more than 2 readers request this article back. Thus, it is back, enjoy!

To rebuild Kali Linux for Xfce 4 takes time but it worths to process if you want to have a Xfce 4 desktop interface.

Step 0 :

Download the Kali Linux 1.0.1 and install to the hard drive. Make sure you enable the "mirror" when asked. Otherwise, your Kali will not working properly.

If you don't, please append the following to the /etc/apt/sources.list :

deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main non-free contrib

Then, do the following may fix the problem :

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

Make sure you DO NOT edit the GNOME/Xfce menu yourself as it will mess the Kali Menu. However, if you messed the Kali menu, you can do the following to fix :

rm ~/.config/menus

Step 1 :

To prepare your Kali box to be capable to rebuild the Kali iso files :

apt-get install git live-build cdebootstrap kali-archive-keyring apt-cacher-ng

Step 2 :

touch standard.list.chroot

Append some package name to the file in order to tell the maker to include such package to the .iso file.

Or copy and paste to the file namely "standard.list.chroot" to /root/ which includes some useful packages instead (you may edit this file) :

! Packages Priority standard
gedit
radiotray
preload
gtk-recordmydesktop
galculator
synaptic
axel
cpuid
network-manager-pptp
network-manager-pptp-gnome
network-manager-openvpn
network-manager-openvpn-gnome
network-manager-vpnc
network-manager-vpnc-gnome
isomaster
xchat-common
xchat
libreoffice
shutter
bluez-gstreamer
bluez-compat
bluez-alsa
bluez-cups

Step 3 :

Copy and paste to file "update-kali" to your /root/ directory :

apt-get update
apt-get -y dist-upgrade
apt-get --purge -y autoclean
apt-get --purge -y autoremove

Make it execuatable :

chmod +x update-kali

Step 4 :

rm -R /root/live-build-config

git clone git://git.kali.org/live-build-config.git

cp /root/standard.list.chroot /root/live-build-config/config/package-lists/
cp /root/update-kali /root/live-build-config/config/includes.chroot/root/

cd live-build-config

Step 5 :

nano config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot

To locate the following section in the file and make it looks like the following :

# Graphical desktops depending on the architecture
#
# You can replace all the remaining lines with a list of the
# packages required to install your preferred graphical desktop
# or you can just comment everything except the package of your
# preferred desktop.

#if ARCHITECTURES i386 amd64
# *** GNOME DESKTOP ***
iceweasel
alsa-base
alsa-firmware-loaders
gstreamer0.10-alsa
gnome-alsamixer
gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10
gstreamer0.10-pulseaudio
gstreamer0.10-nice
gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg
gstreamer0.10-x
gstreamer0.10-gconf
gstreamer0.10-plugins-base
gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
libgstreamer0.10-0
libclutter-gst-1.0-0
gir1.2-clutter-gst-1.0
libgstreamer-plugins-bad0.10-0
libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-0
gstreamer0.10-plugins-good
gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10
gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad
kali-defaults
kali-root-login
desktop-base
network-manager-gnome
network-manager
xfce4
#endif

Step 6 :

/etc/init.d/apt-cacher-ng restart
export http_proxy=http://localhost:3142/

./build_all.sh

The rebuilt amd64.iso and i386.iso are located at /root/live-build-config/images. The process will take 4 to 6 or more hours to complete. Please be patient.

Bouns #1

If your CPU is too old that does not support PAE, you need to rebuild your Kali Linux.

Follow Step 1 to Step 5 as above.

cd live-build-config
cd auto
nano config

Locate the following :

lb_opts="--debian-installer live --linux-flavours 686-pae"

and replaces with :

lb_opts="--debian-installer live --linux-flavours 486"

Save it and exit.

cd ..

or

cd /root/live-build-config

/etc/init.d/apt-cacher-ng restart
export http_proxy=http://localhost:3142/

lb config --architecture i386
lb build

That's all! See you.