Easiest way to create Kali Linux LiveUSB with persistence storage...

Your USB drive has a capacity of at least 8GB — the Kali Linux image takes over 3GB.

1. Download Kali Linux iso from here.

2. Use balenaEtcher to write the iso into your pendrive.

3. BalenaEtcher will create 2 partitions:

• iso9660 - 2.92 GB (your iso image)
• fat12 - 736 KB

4. Open KDE Partition Manager (GParted detected iso9660 as one partition as a whole) and create new partition (ext3 or ext4) on the third unused space and label it as persistence.

KDE Parition Manager

5. Create a mount point, mount the new partition there, and then create the configuration file to enable persistence. Finally, unmount the partition.

$ sudo mkdir -p /mnt/my_usb
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/my_usb
$ sudo echo "/ union" > /mnt/my_usb/persistence.conf
$ sudo umount /dev/sdb3

Compacting virtual disk image (VirtualBox)...

Scenario

Host OS: Manjaro Linux

Guest OS: Kali Linux

Action on guest OS:

- Log in to guest OS

- Clear package manager cache

- Uninstall unnecessary apps

- Delete unnecessary files

- Clear logs

- Boot into vm via Linux Live USB iso

- Open terminal

- Install zerofree if not exist

- Run the command below

$ zerofree -v /dev/sdX

- Replace sdX with the actual partition like sda1, sda2 etc

- Shut down the vm

 Action on host OS:

- Open terminal and run VBoxManage command

$ VBoxManage modifymedium disk /path/your-vdi-image --compact

How to test Live USB on VirtualBox Linux...

Plugged in your USB pendrive.

Check your USB drive details:

$ sudo fdisk -l

Add your user to disk group:

$ sudo usermod -a -G disk $USER

Open terminal and run the command below (replace X with your drive). There's no need for sudo:

$ vboxmanage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/usb.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdX

Next open VirtualBox and create new vm. When in the hard disk option, use an existing virtual hard disk file. Select usb.vmdk file that you've created earlier in the previous step.

Complete setup.

Now you can start the newly created vm to test your Live USB.

From Lysia with love, now on Mikah...

Started to get bored with Ubuntu+Gnome Shell combo. It's time to distro hop!

A friend of mine recommended Manjaro, an Arch based distro. I've never tried an Arch based distro before.

Manjaro officially comes with 3 DEs of choice (XFCE, KDE Plasma and Gnome).

Been using Gnome for quite a while (since Gnome 2 era), might as well I try something new. Downloaded KDE Plasma version and I'm hooked!

Love the AUR, love the rolling release and love the ability to switch kernel.

A happy camper now since April this year.

How to browse the web anonymously on Manjaro with Kalitorify...

Download the project with git

$ git clone https://github.com/brainfucksec/kalitorify

Install dependencies

$ sudo pacman -S tor curl

Install make if not available in your system

$ sudo pacman -S make

* Important notes, proceed at your own risks:

kalitorify program was created for the Kali Linux operating system (Kali Linux rolling 2020.x), don't run on other Linux distributions if you're not sure what you're doing.

To make it works on Manjaro: Change UID that Tor runs as in the system (for Debian based distro, it's debian-tor. For Arch based distro, it's tor).

Open kalitorify.sh script with any text editor and search for debian-tor.

Before the changes:

# The UID that Tor runs as (varies from system to system)
#`id -u debian-tor` #Debian/Ubuntu
readonly tor_uid="$(id -u debian-tor)"

After the changes:

# The UID that Tor runs as (varies from system to system)
#`id -u debian-tor` #Debian/Ubuntu
readonly tor_uid="$(id -u tor)"

Save the changes.

Install kalitorify

$ cd kalitorify

$ sudo make install

Restart the machine.

Now check kalitorify version

$ kalitorify -v

To start kalitorify

$ sudo kalitorify -t

Sometimes transparent proxy failed to activate, kalitorify will suggest to restart with command below:

$ sudo kalitorify --restart

To stop kalitorify, use command below:

$ sudo kalitorify -c

Restart the machine.

Disclaimer:

Use these steps at your own risks. I will not be held responsible for any breaks, unable to restart, crash, damage or any legal terms that happen to your system.

Install and configure RDP server on Linux...

To install freerdp on Debian, Kali Linux, Linux Mint, Ubuntu and derivatives, run the command:

$ sudo apt install freerdp2-shadow-x11 winpr-utils

To install freerdp on Arch Linux and derivatives, run the command:

$ sudo pacman -S freerdp

To start the RDP server without authentication at all, use the -auth option. Warning: if authentication is disabled, anyone can connect. Only use this option for testing.

$ freerdp-shadow-cli -auth

To start RDP server with authentication:

• First calculate the hash for password

$ winpr-hash -u myusername -p mypassword

Output:
a991ae45aa987a1a48c8bdc1209ff0e7

• Next, create SAM (example: my-sam) file and add this text

dirn:::a991ae45aa987a1a48c8bdc1209ff0e7:::

• Now start RDP server

$ freerdp-shadow-cli /sam-file:my-sam /sec:nla

• Connect from Windows