How To Install cymothoa on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is cymothoa

cymothoa is:

Cymothoa is a stealth backdooring tool, that inject backdoor’s shellcode into an existing process. The tool uses the ptrace library (available on nearly all * nix), to manipulate processes and infect them.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install cymothoa

Install cymothoa Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install cymothoa

Install cymothoa 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 cymothoa using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install cymothoa

How To Uninstall cymothoa on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove cymothoa

Uninstall cymothoa And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove cymothoa

Remove cymothoa Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge cymothoa

Remove cymothoa configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge cymothoa

Dependencies

cymothoa have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• cymothoa website

Summary

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