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https://github.com/elreydetoda/packer-kali_linux
This is a repository that will be used to help create a process of a new kali vagrant box for hashicorp each week.
https://github.com/elreydetoda/packer-kali_linux
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This is a repository that will be used to help create a process of a new kali vagrant box for hashicorp each week.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/elreydetoda/packer-kali_linux
- Owner: elreydetoda
- License: lgpl-3.0
- Created: 2018-01-26T06:59:14.000Z (almost 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2023-04-19T01:12:12.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-14T23:24:31.342Z (about 2 months ago)
- Topics: automation, homelab, kali-box, kali-linux, kalilinux, packer, pentesting, pentestlab, redops, vagrant
- Language: Shell
- Homepage:
- Size: 5.12 MB
- Stars: 42
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 17
- Open Issues: 28
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# Automated Kali Vagrant Box
[](https://github.com/elreydetoda/packer-kali_linux)
[credit/src](https://www.kali.org/blog/announcing-kali-for-vagrant/) [¹](#footnotes) for image.
[](https://circleci.com/gh/elreydetoda/packer-kali_linux/tree/master)
[](https://www.codefactor.io/repository/github/elreydetoda/packer-kali_linux)
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[](https://gitter.im/packer-kali_linux/community)
[](https://github.com/elreydetoda/packer-kali_linux/releases/latest)
## Presentation
* Slideshow - [https://slides.com/elrey741/redops](https://slides.com/elrey741/redops)
* Video
* (coming soon)[SELF (Southeast Linuxfest)](https://www.youtube.com/user/southeastlinuxfest/playlists)
* [bsides chs](http://youtu.be/9EnDotVmcl8)
* Vagrant for Pentesters ( not directly tied to project, but applicable )
[](https://youtu.be/Gb0peU3bckQ)
* Blog posts
* Part 1: [https://blog.secureideas.com/2018/09/automating-red-team-homelabs-part-1-kali-automation.html](https://blog.secureideas.com/2018/09/automating-red-team-homelabs-part-1-kali-automation.html)
* This blog post is a high level overview as to what I want to use this repo for
* Part 2: [https://blog.secureideas.com/2019/05/automating-red-team-homelabs-part-2-build-pentest-destroy-and-repeat.html](https://blog.secureideas.com/2019/05/automating-red-team-homelabs-part-2-build-pentest-destroy-and-repeat.html)
* This blog post is a deep dive into using packer and how I automated this github repo.
## Overview
### Vagrant Cloud Image
here is my account on vagrant cloud (which should list all the packer builds for this repo): [https://app.vagrantup.com/elrey741/](https://app.vagrantup.com/elrey741/)
and specifically here is the vagrant box for the master branch: [https://app.vagrantup.com/elrey741/boxes/kali-linux_amd64](https://app.vagrantup.com/elrey741/boxes/kali-linux_amd64)
### VM info
* user: vagrant
* pass: vagrant
#### Installed software
listed in the scripts directory: [here](https://github.com/elreydetoda/packer-kali_linux/tree/master/prov_packer)
### what this repo will be for
So you can vagrant box update to get the new box that is created from this each month by a cron job on my server. This will allow for a fresh new image of Kali with the most up to date tools through the ease of vagrant and however you want to provision my kali box.
Based on vagrants help command (displayed below), this should destroy/delete anything from before the box was upgraded.
```bash
$ vagrant box update --help
Usage: vagrant box update [options]
Updates the box that is in use in the current Vagrant environment,
if there any updates available. This does not destroy/recreate the
machine, so you'll have to do that to see changes.
To update a specific box (not tied to a Vagrant environment), use the
--box flag.
```
### grand scheme
So to get the new up to date kali box you would have to `vagrant destroy` and `vagrant up` it again. Then everything would be based on your Vagrantfile for provisioning.
### things to consider
before `vagrant destroy`
* did you backup all your metasploit data? - `msfconsole -q -x "db_export -f xml /root/pentesting/metasploit-backups/general/metasploit-backup-main.xml; exit"`
* did you backup all your metasploit creds (doesn't get exported by metasploit by default...)? - `msfconsole -q -x "creds -o /root/pentesting/metasploit-backups/creds/metasploit-backup-creds.csv; exit"`
* do you have any customizations that could be automated in your Vagrantfile?
* putting all your data in your `/vagrant` folder is ideal, to keep everything shared and making sure it doesn't get lost when destroying boxes (because it is on your local machine as a shared folder)
## Dependencies
* vagrant
* packer
* internet connection
### Future plans
* [ ] Create different kali box automations (i.e. with empire and other frameworks)
* [ ] docs...eventually :D
* [ ] different virtualization platforms (virtualbox)
## Footnotes
[1] KALI LINUX ™ is a trademark of Offensive Security. This repo is not the official implementation of Vagrant and Kali. You can find that [here](https://gitlab.com/kalilinux/build-scripts/kali-vagrant/)