BeEF stands for the Browser Exploitation Framework. It is a penetration testing tool that focuses on the web browser, it’s an XSS exploitation tool that is designed to take over victim’s browser session as a part of the exploitation, it includes different kinds of modules and payloads.
Beef is another free great professional security tool. This tool will give the experience penetration tester pioneering techniques and unlike other tools, it concentrates on leveraging browser flaws to check the security posture of a target. This tool is built only for penetration testing and legal research.
The tool is available for Windows, Linux and MAC OS X operating systems. The tool is used for collecting the browser flaws or zombie browsers in real-time. It gives the researcher or the attacker a control and command interface which facilitates the targeting of groups or individuals of zombie browsers. It is built to make the creation of new exploit modules easy.
“Unlike other security frameworks, BeEF looks past the hardened network perimeter and client system, and examines exploitability within the context of the one open door: the web browser. BeEF will hook one or more web browsers and use them as beachheads for launching directed command modules and further attacks against the system from within the browser context.”
The framework also comes preinstalled in Kali Linux 2.0. Otherwise, you can download BeEF from the project’s website at https://beefproject.com/.