Fixing running silentbridge in Kali Linux 2024

[Ab4y98]

Hi,

I’m opening this issue because after using the tool SilentBridge during a recent engagement, I encountered some dependency issues when running it with Python 3. It’s possible these issues stem from the tool being around 6 years old and possibly originally written for Python 2.7. Regardless, I’ve written a small script to address some of the headaches I faced with the tool, and I’d like to share it in case it’s helpful to others.

After updating Kali and downloading the tool we can see the following error:

And I've tries so many approaches to fix it.. and came up with this solution:

wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py sudo python2.7 get-pip.py pip install virtualenv==20.21.1 --break-system-packages --ignore-installed virtualenv -p $(which python2) venv2 source venv2/bin/activate git clone https://github.com/s0lst1c3/silentbridge.git pip install scapy==2.4.3 --ignore-installed pip install netifaces pip install nanpy cd silentbridge python2 ./silentbridge

I'll let ChatGPT do the rest of the talking :)

Here's a brief explanation of the commands:

1. Install pip for Python 2.7:

   wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/pip/2.7/get-pip.py
   sudo python2.7 get-pip.py

   Downloads and installs pip for Python 2.7.

2. Install specific version of virtualenv:

   pip install virtualenv==20.21.1 --break-system-packages --ignore-installed

   Installs virtualenv version 20.21.1 while bypassing system package conflicts.

3. Create a virtual environment with Python 2.7:

   virtualenv -p $(which python2) venv2
   source venv2/bin/activate

   Creates and activates a virtual environment using Python 2.7.

4. Clone SilentBridge repository and install dependencies:

   git clone https://github.com/s0lst1c3/silentbridge.git
   pip install scapy==2.4.3 --ignore-installed
   pip install netifaces
   pip install nanpy

   Clones the SilentBridge repository and installs required dependencies (scapy, netifaces, and nanpy).

5. Run SilentBridge:

   cd silentbridge
   python2 ./silentbridge

   Navigates to the SilentBridge directory and runs the tool with Python 2.7.

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In short, these commands set up a Python 2.7 environment, install dependencies, and run the SilentBridge tool.

[joshuanutt]

Ran into this error when installing netifaces:

netifaces.c:1:10: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
      1 | #include <Python.h>
        |          ^~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.

Fixed with:
sudo apt-get install python2-dev

After that, this worked fine on Kali