How To Install chaosreader on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install chaosreader on Kali Linux.

What is chaosreader

chaosreader is:

Chaosreader traces TCP/UDP/others sessions and fetches application data from snoop or tcpdump logs (or other libpcap compatible programs). This is a type of “any-snarf” program, as it will fetch telnet sessions, FTP files, HTTP transfers (HTML, GIF, JPEG etc) and SMTP emails from the captured data inside network traffic logs. A html index file is created to that links to all the session details, including realtime replay programs for telnet, rlogin, IRC, X11 and VNC sessions. Chaosreader reports such as image reports and HTTP GET/POST content reports.

It also creates replay programs for telnet sessions, so that you can play them back in realtime (or even different speeds).

Chaosreader can also run in standalone mode, where it invokes tcpdump or snoop (a similar to tcpdump program for Solaris) to create the log files and then processes them.

This package is useful for forensics investigations and for network traffic analysis.

There are three methods to install chaosreader 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 chaosreader Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install chaosreader using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install chaosreader

Install chaosreader Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install chaosreader using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install chaosreader

Install chaosreader 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 chaosreader using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install chaosreader

How To Uninstall chaosreader on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the chaosreader package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove chaosreader

Uninstall chaosreader And Its Dependencies

To uninstall chaosreader and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove chaosreader

Remove chaosreader Configurations and Data

To remove chaosreader configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge chaosreader

Remove chaosreader configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove chaosreader configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge chaosreader

Dependencies

chaosreader have the following dependencies:

• perl

References

• chaosreader website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install chaosreader package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.