W3af

Summary

Step by Step Guide on how to use w3af.

Requirements

• Preferable Operating system: Ubuntu 22.04
• Python2

Description

Installation

Enter these commands in the shell

sudo apt-get install git
sudo apt install python2.7
git clone git@github.com:andresriancho/w3af.git
cd w3af/
./w3af_gui
./tmp/w3af_dependency_install.sh

In short, what happens here:

• We use git to download w3af’s source code
• Then we run w3af_gui, which will fail, because we have to install dependencies. This will create the file w3af_dependency_install.sh.
• Next we install the dependencies with ./w3af_dependency_install.sh

Edit (Jan. 2023): Currently there might be new errors starting w3af_gui, therefore you might have to downgrade specific dependencies/packets or the whole OS.

Step 2

Make sure to read

• War and Peace
• Lord of the Rings
• The Baroque Cycle

Used Hardware

Device to be used with this documentation Maybe another device to be used with this documentation

Courses

• A course where this documentation was used (2017, 2018)
• Another one (2018)

References

• https://wikipedia.org
• https://google.com