3 - Getting Started with Kali Linux

Question 1

Which Windows GUI tool is recommended for creating a Kali USB drive?

Answer 1

win32diskimager

Question 2

Which GNOME GUI tool is recommended for creating a Kali USB drive?

Answer 2

GNOME Disks

Question 3

Which Linux command can be used to create a bootable USB from an ISO?

Answer 3

dd

Question 4

Which Linux command can you use to find the device name assigned to a USB drive?

Answer 4

dmesg

Question 5

What two parameters do you provide to dd to create a bootable usb drive from an iso file?

Answer 5

if=filename.iso of=/dev/devicename

Question 6

Which Mac command can you use to find the device name assigned to a USB drive?

Answer 6

diskutil list

Question 7

Which Mac command can be used to create a bootable USB from an ISO?

Answer 7

dd

Question 8

How do you verify trust in a GnuPG key, (specifically regarding https://archive.kali.org/archive-key.asc)?

Answer 8

Is it signed by someone you trust? (Raphaël Hertzog is mentioned)

Question 9

Where is Kali’s public GPG key?

Answer 9

https://archive.kali.org/archive-key.asc

Question 10

What Linux one-liner would you use to download AND import the Kali public gpg key?

Answer 10

wget -q -O - https://archive.kali.org/archive-key.asc | gpg --import

Question 11

Where can you download the SHA256SUMS for a Kali Linux Distro?

Answer 11

https://archive.kali.org/kali-images/kali-2020.3/SHA256SUMS

(In the same directory as the image iso.)

Question 12

Where can you download the signature for the SHA256SUMS file?

Answer 12

https://archive.kali.org/kali-images/kali-2020.3/SHA256SUMS.gpg
(In the same folder as the iso images)

Question 13

What Linux command would you use to verify that a SHA256SUMS file is authentic?

Answer 13

gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.gpg SHA256SUMS

Question 14

What Linux command would you use to find the SHA256 checksum of a file??

Answer 14

shasum -a 256 ./filename.iso

Question 15

What command was run on Debian ISOs that gave them a partition table?

Answer 15

isohybrid

Question 16

How can you increase the temporary storage space of a VM running a Live boot disk?

Answer 16

Give it more RAM

Question 17

what does the quiet boot parameter do?

Answer 17

removes verbose feedback

Question 18

what does the noautomount boot parameter do?

Answer 18

“forensics mode” prevents automatically mounting connected disks

Question 19

Which software package is required for Debian to have the noautomount boot parameter?

Answer 19

kali-defaults