Book description
Evade antiviruses and bypass firewalls with the most widely used penetration testing frameworks
Key Features
- Gain insights into the latest antivirus evasion techniques
- Set up a complete pentesting environment using Metasploit and virtual machines
- Discover a variety of tools and techniques that can be used with Kali Linux
Book Description
Penetration testing or ethical hacking is a legal and foolproof way to identify vulnerabilities in your system. With thorough penetration testing, you can secure your system against the majority of threats.
This Learning Path starts with an in-depth explanation of what hacking and penetration testing is. You’ll gain a deep understanding of classical SQL and command injection flaws, and discover ways to exploit these flaws to secure your system. You'll also learn how to create and customize payloads to evade antivirus software and bypass an organization's defenses. Whether it's exploiting server vulnerabilities and attacking client systems, or compromising mobile phones and installing backdoors, this Learning Path will guide you through all this and more to improve your defense against online attacks.
By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have the knowledge and skills you need to invade a system and identify all its vulnerabilities.
This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products:
- Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition by Juned Ahmed Ansari and Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
- Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook - Third Edition by Abhinav Singh , Monika Agarwal, et al
What you will learn
- Build and analyze Metasploit modules in Ruby
- Integrate Metasploit with other penetration testing tools
- Use server-side attacks to detect vulnerabilities in web servers and their applications
- Explore automated attacks such as fuzzing web applications
- Identify the difference between hacking a web application and network hacking
- Deploy Metasploit with the Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES)
- Use MSFvenom to generate payloads and backdoor files, and create shellcode
Who this book is for
This Learning Path is designed for security professionals, web programmers, and pentesters who want to learn vulnerability exploitation and make the most of the Metasploit framework. Some understanding of penetration testing and Metasploit is required, but basic system administration skills and the ability to read code are a must.
Downloading the example code for this ebook: You can download the example code files for this ebook on GitHub at the following link: https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Improving-your-Penetration-Testing-Skills . If you require support please email: customercare@packt.com
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction to Penetration Testing and Web Applications
- Setting Up Your Lab with Kali Linux
-
Reconnaissance and Profiling the Web
Server
- Reconnaissance
- Information gathering
- Scanning – probing the target
-
Authentication and Session Management
Flaws
- Authentication schemes in web applications
- Session management mechanisms
- Common authentication flaws in web applications
- Detecting and exploiting improper session management
- Preventing authentication and session attacks
- Detecting and Exploiting Injection-Based Flaws
- Finding and Exploiting Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerabilities
- Cross-Site Request Forgery, Identification, and Exploitation
- Attacking Flaws in Cryptographic Implementations
- Using Automated Scanners on Web Applications
-
Metasploit Quick Tips for Security
Professionals
- Introduction
- Installing Metasploit on Windows
- Installing Linux and macOS
- Installing Metasploit on macOS
- Using Metasploit in Kali Linux
- Setting up a penetration-testing lab
- Setting up SSH connectivity
- Connecting to Kali using SSH
- Configuring PostgreSQL
- Creating  workspaces
- Using the database
- Using the hosts command
- Understanding the services command
-
Information Gathering and Scanning
- Introduction
- Passive information gathering with Metasploit
- Active information gathering with Metasploit
- Port scanning—the Nmap way
- Port scanning — the db_nmap way
- Host discovery with ARP Sweep
- UDP Service Sweeper
- SMB scanning and enumeration
- Detecting SSH versions with the SSH Version Scanner
- FTP scanning
- SMTP enumeration
- SNMP enumeration
- HTTP scanning
- WinRM scanning and brute forcing
- Integrating with Nessus
- Integrating with NeXpose
- Integrating with OpenVAS
- Server-Side Exploitation
-
Meterpreter
- Introduction
- Understanding the Meterpreter core commands
- Understanding the Meterpreter filesystem commands
- Understanding Meterpreter networking commands
- Understanding the Meterpreter system commands
- Setting up multiple communication channels with the target
- Meterpreter anti-forensics
- The getdesktop and keystroke sniffing
- Using a scraper Meterpreter script
- Scraping the system using winenum
- Automation with AutoRunScript
- Meterpreter resource scripts
- Meterpreter timeout control
- Meterpreter sleep control
- Meterpreter transports
- Interacting with the registry
- Loading framework plugins
- Meterpreter API and mixins
- Railgun—converting Ruby into a weapon
- Adding DLL and function definitions to Railgun
- Injecting the VNC server remotely
- Enabling Remote Desktop
-
Post-Exploitation
- Introduction
- Post-exploitation modules
- Bypassing UAC
- Dumping the contents of the SAM database
- Passing the hash
- Incognito attacks with Meterpreter
- Using Mimikatz
- Setting up a persistence with backdoors
- Becoming TrustedInstaller
- Backdooring Windows binaries
- Pivoting with Meterpreter
- Port forwarding with Meterpreter
- Credential harvesting
- Enumeration modules
- Autoroute and socks proxy server
- Analyzing an existing post-exploitation module
- Writing a post-exploitation module
- Using MSFvenom
- Client-Side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass
- Social-Engineer Toolkit
- Working with Modules for Penetration Testing
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: Improving your Penetration Testing Skills
- Author(s):
- Release date: July 2019
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781838646073
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