Ethical Hacking using Android Devices

Overview

My previous article A Guide to Setting up a Development Environment on Android Devices talked about setting up a development environment on Android devices. In this article let’s continue the fun by setting up an ethical hacking environment on Android devices.

Prerequisites

For the walk-through I am going to use ssh to login to my Android phone. If you have not read the previous article, refer to the link below.

A Guide to Setting up a Development Environment on Android Devices

Kali Linux

Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. There are several ways of getting it installed on Android to leverage the hacking tools in Termux.

Tool-X

From Termux terminal, let’s use Tool-X to install Kali Linux tools.

I log in to my Android phone using SSH. The user name and IP address are specific to my setup.

# ssh -p 8022 u0_a196@192.168.0.116

From the Termux shell, follow these instructions to install Tool-X

# apt-update
# apt-install git
# git clone https://github.com/rajkumardusad/Tool-X.git
# cd Tool-X
# chmod +x…