Introduction

On BackTrack 5 both the old BeEF (PHP) and BeEF (Ruby) have been added but as we're doing a lot of development with a new alpha release every month, the (incorrectly named) BeEF-ng version is not up-to-date. Required gems are also not installed by default. This document will discuss how to setup this functionality.

NOTE 1: A script has been published to automate the steps described in this guide.

NOTE 2: If you run tools that require ruby 1.8 you might find this script handy

Installing BeEF from trunk in BT5

Following the next steps you will be able to use use the latest BeEF on your pentests using BT5:

1. rm -rf /pentest/web/beef-ng
2. svn checkout http://beef.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ /pentest/web/beef
3. GEM PATHS defined in the Gem Environment are wrong, so: add export GEM_PATH=/var/lib/gems/1.9.2/gems and export GEM_HOME=/var/lib/gems/1.9.2/gems to /etc/profile
4. source /etc/profile
5. cd /pentest/web/beef, then run ruby install , and press 2 to list all the required gems
6. install these required gems with gem install 'gem list from previous step'
7. to see if everything went ok:

	root@bt:~# irb
	irb(main):001:0> require 'rubygems'
	=> false
	irb(main):002:0> require 'dm-core'
	=> true
	irb(main):003:0> Gem.path
	=> ["/var/lib/gems/1.9.2/gems"]
	irb(main):004:0> quit

8. Start BeEF with the default SQLite DB: ruby beef -x

Now BeEF is up-and-running and can be updated to the latest trunk version with the usual svn update command from the /pentest/web/beef directory.