Installation of VAF Tool on Kali Linux

Step 1: Open up your Kali Linux terminal and move to Desktop using the following command.

cd Desktop

Step 2: You are on Desktop now create a new directory called VAF using the following command. In this directory, we will complete the installation of the VAF tool.

mkdir VAF 

Step 3: Now switch to the VAF directory using the following command.

cd VAF 

Step 4: Now you have to install the tool. You have to clone the tool from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/d4rckh/vaf.git

Step 5: The tool has been downloaded successfully in the VAF directory. Now list out the contents of the tool by using the below command.

ls

Step 6: You can observe that there is a new directory created of the VAF tool that has been generated while we were installing the tool. Now move to that directory using the below command:

cd vaf

Step 7: Once again to discover the contents of the tool, use the below command.

ls

Step 8: Run the Bash Script using the following command.

./vaf_linux_amd64 -h

In this article, we are going to see the VAF tools, which is used to automated software testing technique that involves providing invalid, unexpected, or random data as inputs to a computer program and detect the bug.

URL Fuzzing is the art of finding hidden files and directories on the target domain server. These files and directories can have sensitive data and information that can reveal the application’s internal architecture. Doing this fuzzing task in an automated way makes it a more straightforward and time saver process for every penetration tester. VAF is the computerized tool used to fuzz the files and directories from the target domain. VAF tool is open-source and free to use. We can filter out our results by excluding specific status codes and including only the essential extensions of files like .php, .html.