How To Install unicornscan on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unicornscan on Kali Linux.
What is unicornscan
unicornscan is:
Unicornscan is a new information gathering and correlation engine built for and by members of the security research and testing communities. It was designed to provide an engine that is Scalable, Accurate, Flexible, and Efficient. It is released for the community to use under the terms of the GPL license. Benefits:
Unicornscan is an attempt at a User-land Distributed TCP/IP stack. It is intended to provide a researcher a superior interface for introducing a stimulus into and measuring a response from a TCP/IP enabled device or network. Although it currently has hundreds of individual features, a main set of abilities include:
- Asynchronous stateless TCP scanning with all variations of TCP Flags.
- Asynchronous stateless TCP banner grabbing
- Asynchronous protocol specific UDP Scanning (sending enough of a signature
to elicit a response).
- Active and Passive remote OS, application, and component identification
by analyzing responses.
- PCAP file logging and filtering
- Relational database output
- Custom module support
- Customized data-set views
There are three methods to install unicornscan 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 unicornscan Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get updateAfter updating apt database, We can install unicornscan using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install unicornscanInstall unicornscan Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt updateAfter updating apt database, We can install unicornscan using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install unicornscanInstall unicornscan 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 updateAfter updating apt database, We can install unicornscan using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install unicornscanHow To Uninstall unicornscan on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the unicornscan package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove unicornscanUninstall unicornscan And Its Dependencies
To uninstall unicornscan and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove unicornscanRemove unicornscan Configurations and Data
To remove unicornscan configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge unicornscanRemove unicornscan configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove unicornscan configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge unicornscanDependencies
unicornscan have the following dependencies:
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unicornscan package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
