Install OpenVAS Vulnerability Scanner on Kali Linux

Vulnerability scanning is a crucial phase of a penetration test and having an updated vulnerability scanner in your security toolkit can often make a real difference by helping you discover overlooked vulnerable items. For this reason, we’ve manually packaged the latest and newly released OpenVAS 8.0 tool and libraries for Kali Linux. Although nothing major has changed in this release in terms of running the vulnerability scanner, we wanted to give a quick overview on how to get it up and running.

Setting up Kali for Vulnerability Scanning
   apt-get update (Update Kali Linux)
   apt-get dist-upgrade (Upgrade Kali Linux)
   apt-get install openvas (Install package of OpenVAS)
   openvas-setup (Auto setup for OpenVAS)

root@kali:~# apt-get update
root@kali:~# apt-get dist-upgrade

root@kali:~# apt-get install openvas
root@kali:~# openvas-setup
/var/lib/openvas/private/CA created
/var/lib/openvas/CA created

[i] This script synchronizes an NVT collection with the 'OpenVAS NVT Feed'.
[i] Online information about this feed: 'http://www.openvas.org/openvas-nvt-feed
...
sent 1143 bytes received 681741238 bytes 1736923.26 bytes/sec
total size is 681654050 speedup is 1.00
[i] Initializing scap database
[i] Updating CPEs
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2002.xml
[i] Updating /var/lib/openvas/scap-data/nvdcve-2.0-2003.xml
...
Write out database with 1 new entries
Data Base Updated
Restarting Greenbone Security Assistant: gsad.
User created with password '6062d074-0a4c-4de1-a26a-5f9f055b7c88'.

   Remember, passwords are randomly generated in the User created with password. Example: with User created with password '6062d074-0a4c-4de1-a26a-5f9f055b7c88', the password is 6062d074-0a4c-4de1-a26a-5f9f055b7c88

   Once openvas-setup completes its process, the OpenVAS manager, scanner, and GSAD services should be listening:

root@kali:~# netstat -antp
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9390 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 9583/openvasmd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9391 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 9570/openvassd: Wai
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9392 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 9596/gsad

Starting the OpenVAS services
   openvas-start (Run OpenVAS)
   openvas-check-setup (Check OpenVAS)

root@kali:~# openvas-start
Starting OpenVas Services
Starting Greenbone Security Assistant: gsad.
Starting OpenVAS Scanner: openvassd.
Starting OpenVAS Manager: openvasmd.

Connecting to the OpenVAS Web Interface
   Point your browser to https://127.0.0.1:9392, accept the self signed SSL certificate and plugin the credentials for the admin user. The admin password was generated during the setup phase (look at the output above if you missed it).
   Remember, login account is admin

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