3 - Getting Started with Kali Linux Flashcards

1
Q

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

A

win32diskimager

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2
Q

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

A

GNOME Disks

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3
Q

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

A

dd

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4
Q

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

A

dmesg

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5
Q

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

A

if=filename.iso of=/dev/devicename

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6
Q

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

A

diskutil list

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7
Q

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

A

dd

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8
Q

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

A

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

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9
Q

Where is Kali’s public GPG key?

A

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

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10
Q

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

A

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

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11
Q

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

A

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

(In the same directory as the image iso.)

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12
Q

Where can you download the signature for the SHA256SUMS file?

A

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

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13
Q

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

A

gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.gpg SHA256SUMS

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14
Q

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

A

shasum -a 256 ./filename.iso

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15
Q

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

A

isohybrid

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16
Q

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

A

Give it more RAM

17
Q

what does the quiet boot parameter do?

A

removes verbose feedback

18
Q

what does the noautomount boot parameter do?

A

“forensics mode” prevents automatically mounting connected disks

19
Q

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

A

kali-defaults