Trust Report Canada · November 2026
If you’re learning cybersecurity, you’ve probably seen ads for AI assistants that promise to teach you the tools. Kali GPT is one of them. It started in 2023 as a free custom chatbot on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, and today it sells for €79.90 as a download.
We looked at what it’s made of.
What it claims
The product page at kali-gpt.com, as we saw it on November 10, 2026:
- “The AI-Driven Cybersecurity Tools based on Kali Linux.”
- “Built for Kali Linux. Powered by GPT-4. Crafted for cybersecurity professionals.”
- An AI assistant “trained for the Kali Linux ecosystem”, which “helps you learn, automate, and master cybersecurity tasks”.
- A one-time price of €79.90, shown as a sale from €99.00.
- Ten customer quotes, each with a first name, a last name and a date between April 12 and June 15, 2025.
The site’s terms of sale describe the product as “a cybersecurity assistant powered by ChatGPT, offered as a downloadable digital product”. Its install guide calls it a “ChatGPT Desktop App” and installs it as a Linux package.
What we found in 2025
In June 2025, Mike asked the original chatbot for its instructions and its knowledge files. Its instructions told it never to share them, and it shared them anyway. One of the knowledge files was a PDF of Advanced Security Testing with Kali Linux, a book by Daniel Dieterle, published in 2022.
The knowledge files the chatbot handed over in June 2025.
The PDF’s own metadata names Daniel Dieterle as author and carries the book’s Amazon identifier. The chatbot’s instructions name a different author for Kali GPT.
The PDF’s metadata, read in June 2025.
What we found in November 2026
We went back on November 10, 2026.
It’s still for sale. kali-gpt.com is live on Shopify, priced at €79.90. The seller named in the site’s legal notice is KINGWEB, a business registered in France.
The book is still on its file list. The site’s own ReadMe page lists four “Included Files”. The fourth is Advanced Security Testing with Kali Linux.pdf, the same file name we saw in 2025.
kali-gpt.com/pages/readme-md, captured November 11, 2026, 00:09 UTC.
We did not buy the product, so we can’t say whether the download contains the PDF. What we can say is that the seller’s own page says it does.
The author named on the product isn’t the book’s author. The same ReadMe names Marc Streefland (alias XIS10CIAL) as Kali GPT’s author. The book’s author is Daniel Dieterle.
The site’s own explainer has a caveat. Its “What is Kali GPT?” page says the product “is not an official tool developed by Offensive Security”, the company behind Kali Linux, and calls it “a GPT-based interface with added Kali-related knowledge”.
What we checked
| Claim | Observation | Source | Captured |
|---|---|---|---|
| An AI assistant “trained for the Kali Linux ecosystem” | Its 2025 knowledge files included a published book by another author | Mike’s 2025 extraction | 2025-06-16 |
| Sold as Kali GPT’s own product | The seller’s ReadMe lists that book’s PDF among “Included Files” | kali-gpt.com/pages/readme-md | 2026-11-11 |
| ”Powered by GPT-4” | The terms of sale say “powered by ChatGPT”; we did not test which model it uses | kali-gpt.com/policies/terms-of-sale | 2026-11-11 |
| €79.90, on sale from €99.00 | Listed at those prices | kali-gpt.com/products/kali-gpt | 2026-11-11 |
| Ten customer quotes, April to June 2025 | Listed as shown; we have not checked the names against any public profile or contacted them | kali-gpt.com | 2026-11-11 |
| Free custom GPT on ChatGPT | ChatGPT shows only a sign-in page to logged-out visitors, so we could not check whether it is still listed | chatgpt.com | 2026-11-11 |
What we couldn’t establish
- Whether the paid download contains the book. We didn’t buy it.
- How KINGWEB and the named author are connected.
- Whether the book’s author or publisher gave permission. We have asked neither, and we’ll publish any answer we get.
Before you pay for an AI tool
- Ask what it’s built on. A “custom AI” is often a general chatbot with some documents attached. That can be useful, but it’s worth knowing what you’re paying for.
- Read the small print. Here, the terms of sale and the explainer page said more about the product than the home page did.
- Look for the files. If a product lists its knowledge files, check whether they’re someone else’s published work.
- Buy the book. If you want to learn Kali Linux from this material, the original is on sale under its author’s name.
- Tell us at [email protected] if you bought it, or if you’re the author.
The 2025 extraction, with the full instructions the chatbot gave up, is written up by Mike: Wright (2025), Kali GPT Claimed to Teach Cybersecurity.