How To Install ike-scan on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ike-scan on Kali Linux.

What is ike-scan

ike-scan is:

ike-scan discovers IKE hosts and can also fingerprint them using the retransmission backoff pattern.

ike-scan does two things:

a) Discovery: Determine which hosts are running IKE. This is done by displaying those hosts which respond to the IKE requests sent by ike-scan.

b) Fingerprinting: Determine which IKE implementation the hosts are using. This is done by recording the times of the IKE response packets from the target hosts and comparing the observed retransmission backoff pattern against known patterns.

The retransmission backoff fingerprinting concept is discussed in more
detail in the UDP backoff fingerprinting paper which should be included
in the ike-scan kit as udp-backoff-fingerprinting-paper.txt.

There are three methods to install ike-scan 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 ike-scan Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install ike-scan

Install ike-scan Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install ike-scan

Install ike-scan 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 ike-scan using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install ike-scan

How To Uninstall ike-scan on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the ike-scan package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ike-scan

Uninstall ike-scan And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove ike-scan

Remove ike-scan Configurations and Data

To remove ike-scan configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge ike-scan

Remove ike-scan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ike-scan

Dependencies

ike-scan have the following dependencies:

• libc6
• libssl1.1

References

• ike-scan website

Summary

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