If you are interested in learning how to install Nessus version 5 on Kali Linux, please read our 2014 blog, Installing and Using Nessus on Kali Linux. Please Note: Because the Kali Linux installation of Nessus has been very popular over the past several years, the instructions in this blog were updated by Juan Vela on May 13, 2019, to reflect the latest version of Nessus. Nessus isn’t installed on Kali Linux by default, but this post will show you how to install Nessus and provide some suggestions for using it in a penetration testing engagement to gain a more complete understanding of your organization's security posture.
Identifying local and remote vulnerabilities. Nessus® provides a penetration tester with a wealth of capabilities that will assist in the engagement, such as: Create a security exception, confirm it, then it should workĬlick here to watch a free tutorial on Nessus, presented by Georgia Weidman.Kali Linux, a Linux distribution designed specifically for penetration testing, comes prepackaged with many pen test tools. Go to browser and browse to: You will get a bad request because Nessus needs to use a secure connection. You will notice there is a daemon listening on port 8834. netstat –ant to look for listening addresses. To start the Nessus daemon, go to Terminal:. Once the plugins have been completed, our Nessus installation is now up to date. Nessus will go out and fetch the latest set of plugins based on the feed we have chosen when we registered, which was HomeFeed or Nessus Hom. ~# /opt/nessus/bin/nessus-fetch –-register. Switch to the Terminal Screen and perform the registration. Tenable will send you an email with an activation code. Accept license agreement and enter your email address, then click register. Go to Registration Site, select HomeFeed. Register the Nessus Scanner at although there may be a more updated URL elsewhere. Hit Y to continue to see that a user has been added. Do you want to delegate any rules – you don’t want to add rules. Click Y then hit Enter to make this a Nessus Admin User. Enter a password for that ID, hit Enter. Enter Login name that you want to use, hit Enter. 
Once the installation is finished we will see that there is a command given to add a user:.You will still need an activation code from Nessus to register before you can use it.
Then follow instructions in your browser.
Then point your browser to: to configure your Nessus scanner. 
ls *.deb to look for any file with a debian extension.The file name will look something like Nessus-4.4.0-ubuntu804_XXX.deb (the XXX represents the filename which can change as new versions are released) Download the version for your OS, for example Nessus Home.
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