Kali Linux is a Debian-derived Linux distribution designed for digital forensics and penetration testing. It is an open source project that is maintained and funded by Offensive Security Ltd, a provider of world-class information security training and penetration testing services. It was developed by Mati Aharoni and Devon Kearns of Offensive Security through the rewrite of BackTrack, their previous forensics Linux distribution. Kali Linux is preinstalled with numerous penetration-testing programs, including nmap (a port scanner), Wireshark (a packet analyzer), John the Ripper (a password cracker), and Aircrack-ng (a software suite for penetration-testing wireless LANs). It is a supported platform of the Metasploit Project’s Metasploit Framework, a tool for developing and executing security exploits. Special Features Available in Kali Linux: • Kali Linux ISO of doom, the perfect hardware backdoor. • Customizing and bending Kali Linux to your will using Kali Linux live build recipes.

• Mastering Kali Linux tool sets with Kali Metapackages. • Kali Linux in the cloud – Kali Amazon EC2 images available. • Kali Linux LUKS Full Disk Encryption (FDE).

Virtual Box Extension Pack: Download Link (~15.6 MB) [Optional] Installation Procedure: The first thing you need to do is go ahead download and install Virtualbox in your system. Then download the Kali Linux ova file mentioned above and extract it using 7-zip or Winrar. Today you'll learn step by step how to install Kali Linux on VirtualBox in Mac. Recommend: Download A Collection of Wordlists & Passwords for Kali Linux.

• Nuking your Kali Linux hard disk with the Kali LUKS nuke option. • Kali Linux running on Android through Linux Deploy. • Kali Linux accessibility features, adding support for blind and visually impaired users. • Kali Linux on a Raspberry Pi and a bunch of other interesting ARM devices. • Kali Linux Live USB persistence with LUKS encryption.

• Kali Linux Evil Wireless Access Point recipe. Action director for pc. • Kali Linux EFI Boot Support.

A lot of the users would like to do crazy stuffs with their Kali Linux. If you’re doing something you’re not sure, you want to install unknown packages, modify some code but don’t want to break your HOST OS, running and installing Kali Linux on VirtualBox is the best way to go. You could also try using VMware but as VMware is proprietary and VirtualBox is free to use, there’s no argument which way usual users would go. Running Kali Linux on VirtualBox is great as in that way all you need to do is take a snapshot and if you break sometime, you can quickly roll back. This imposes another problem though.

If you keep breaking things and keep rolling back for everything, you don’t really learn the Operating System itself. You are learning to bypass and overlook a problem with a easy way out. I am going to judge that?

Linux can be quite complicated sometimes specially you never used it before. You might have just heard about Kali Linux from a friend and learned how much it can achieve and wanted to give it a try without actually installing it in your hard disk alongside your primary OS (may that be Windows or Linux or MAC). Pros of running Kali Linux on VirtualBox • You can run more than one OS simultaneously. • You can install/re-install/backup/move/restore/rollback your guest OS easily. • You can manage allocation of resource (Memory, Hard disk).

Resource Management! • You can copy your VirualBox to a different machine. • You can completely break your installation and roll back in few clicks.