Practical Linux for Pentesting & Bug Bounties 2025

About Practical Linux for Pentesting & Bug Bounties 2025

Welcome to

Linux for Pentesting & Bug Bounties Course

. This course covers fundamentals of Linux and Bash scripting to write your own tools which can be useful for penetration testing and bug bounties. There is no prerequisite of prior linux knowledge and you will be able to install linux, understand fundamentals, write bash scripts for web attacks and mass automation.

This course helps any beginner to intermediate to understand linux fundamentals to make you comfortable with using linux and writing bash scripts tools.

This course will start from

basic fundamentals

of linux like - commands, directory structure, network management, archive management, linux file permissions, performance monitoring, userinfo management, input/output redirection, linux ip tables, virtual hosting and much more. In addition to

fundamentals of linux,

you will also learn how to write your own tools in bash for

Subdomain Enumeration - Active & Passive, Directory Fuzzers, CORS Automation, XSS Automation, Open Redirect Automation, Wayback using Bash etc.

This course is

highly practical

which helps you learn on exact environment when you start your penetrating testing or bug hunting journey. This course also includes important

interview questions

and answers related to linux which will be helpful in any

job interviews.

Here's a more detailed breakdown of the course content:

In all the sections we will start the

fundamentals of Linux and Writing Bash Scripts to make our own useful tools.

In Introduction to Linux

, we will cover What is Linux, Difference between Windows and Linux, Different Flavours of Linux and Tour to Penetration Testing OS like Kali Linux and Parrot OS. We will see all the types of XSS attacks on

live websites

which will give you a better understanding of the live environment when you will start your bug hunting journey. We will also cover Lab Setup for Installation of Linux in Virtual Box and VMware, We will also cover how to setup readymade virtual machine ova files as well which will save your time of installation.

Boot Process -

Windows & Linux Boot Process,

Password Management -

Breaking root password, Setting password for GRUB

Package Managers -

yum, apt, brew, dpkg, rpm, chocolaty, searching for package, installing packages, removing packages, adding repositories, GUI Package managers, how to use git.

Linux Fundamentals -

Linux System Information Commands, Linux Hardware Information Commands, Performance Monitoring Commands, User info and Management Commands, File, Directory and Deletion Commands, Directory Management Commands, Rename,Move and Case Sensitive Commands, Symbolic Links Commands, File Reading Commands, Process and Kill Commands, Background and Foreground Commands, Linux Permissions Fundamentals, Linux Network Management, Linux DHCP Server, What is DNS?, Linux Archive Management Commands, Linux Search and Pattern Commands, Linux SSH Management, Linux SAMBA Management, Linux File System Architecture, Linux IP tables, Web Servers, Virtual Hosts, Bash Scripting Basics, User Inputs, Bash Loops, Customising shell, Using Linux for recon,

Shell Scripting -

We will create scripts/tools for Subdomain Brute force, CORS Automation, URLS to Domain, Waybackurls using Bash, HTTPX/ HTTProbe Tool using Bash, Open Redirect/SSRF and much more. You will also get additional

BONUS sessions

, in which I m going to share my personal bash scripts for hunting bugs. I have also added

Interview Questions and answers

for linux which will be helpful for those are preparing for

Job Interviews and Internships.

With this course, you get

24/7 support

, so if you have any questions you can post them in the Q&A section and we'll respond to you as soon as possible. _Notes:_

_This course is created for educational purposes only._

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