Hackbox – The Combination Of Awesome Techniques

Hackbox is a free and open-source tool available on GitHub. Hackbox is a framework of many tools and techniques which is used for pentesting. Hackbox used by security researchers and pentesters. Hackbox has many inbuilt modules such as Xss, Exploits, Subdomain scanner, Whois Lookup, SSRF Injection, Nmap Auto banner,  URL parser, Web Headers, Listener, Current Network, CORS Misconfig Stats, etc. These modules work simultaneously to perform reconnaissance on domains and web applications. Hackbox is written in python language. You must have python language installed in your kali Linux operating system in order to use this too. Hackbox user interface is very similar to metasploitable 1 and metasploitable 2 which makes it easy to use. Hackbox comes with command-line utility to perform reconnaissance. 

Installation

Step 1: Use the following command to install the tool from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/samhaxr/hackbox && cd hackbox

Step 2: Now use the following command to install the dependencies of the tool.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Step 3: The dependencies has been installed. Now use the following command to run the tool.

python3 hackbox.py

The tool has been installed and running successfully. Now we will see examples to use the tool.

Usage

Example 1: Use the hackbox tool to find subdomains of a domain.

choose option 3

Example 2: Use the hackbox tool to perform Whois lookup.

choose option 4

Example 3: Use the hackbox tool to find web headers of a domain.

choose option 8