Problem with BeEF with Kali Rolling Release

[OMDRsamid]

So I got this Kali Rolling Release and it was fine, I could run BeEF until I updated and upgraded it. After I did system update, now I can't run BeEF. It shows this error:

root@Anonymous:/usr/share/beef-xss# ./beef
/usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require': cannot load such file -- v8/init (LoadError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/v8.rb:4:in `<top (required)>'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/vendor_ruby/therubyracer.rb:1:in `<top (required)>'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from /usr/share/beef-xss/core/loader.rb:23:in `<top (required)>'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.3.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:55:in `require'
from ./beef:32:in `<main>'

Any ideas? Because I've tried reinstalling ruby 2.3 and problem still persist.

[partyboii]

Did you ever come up with a fix for this issue?

[ziflar]

Hello yes the problem appears when ruby is updated to 2.3.0:

the solution : there is 2 way to do it

solution 1 : solve the authentification problem

leafpad /etc/beef-xss/config.yaml

and change of red lines:
# You may override default extension configuration parameters here
extension:
requester:
enable: true
proxy:
enable: true
key: "beef_key.pem"
cert: "beef_cert.pem"
metasploit:
enable: false
social_engineering:
enable: true
evasion:
enable: false
console:
shell:
enable: true
ipec:
enable: true
# this is still experimental..
dns:
enable: false
# this is still experimental..
dns_rebinding:
enable: false
save the file and start beef
it's ok

solution 2 : solve the hockeed browser's problem

the second solution is what I did
Why?????
although,i solved the first problem, there is another one with hooked browser
so i do like this
1) do the first step and also change this one else:
# db_file is only used for sqlite
db_file: "db/beef.db" (we just add the path of the db directory in config file: /etc/beef-xss/config.yaml) if you do not have it by default

2) git clone https://github.com/beefproject/beef.git
3) go to /usr/share/beef-xss and delete all except : db directory and config.yaml
4) go to /root/beef and copy all the contents in /usr/share/beef-xss
5) open a terminal and do
apt-get install libsqlite3-dev
cd /usr/share/beef-xss
bundle install
6) after install all the gemsfile run beef from /usr/share/beef-xss to generate a beef.db like this
cd /usr/share/beef-xss
./beef
authenticate to the beef interface and leave

Now you can run beef from the favorite menu
enjoy

[ziflar]

THE BEST WAY TO RESOLVE THIS PROBLEM

1)

rm -r /usr/share/beef-xss

2)

rm -r /etc/beef-xss/config.yaml

3)

cd /usr/share/

4)

git clone https://github.com/beefproject/beef.git

5)

 mv beef beef-xss

6)

cd beef-xss

7

leafpad config.yaml

edit:
# db_file is only used for sqlite
db_file: "db/beef.db"
save
8)

mv /usr/share/beef-xss/config.yaml /etc/beef-xss/

9)

ln -s /etc/beef-xss/config.yaml /usr/share/beef-xss/config.yaml

10)

ln -s /var/lib/beef-xss/ /usr/share/beef-xss/db

11)

apt-get install libsqlite3-dev

12)

bundle install

13)

service beef-xss start

14)

service beef-xss force-reload

15)

beef-xss

it's ok