Book description
Over 120 recipes to perform advanced penetration testing with Kali Linux
About This Book
- Practical recipes to conduct effective penetration testing using the powerful Kali Linux
- Leverage tools like Metasploit, Wireshark, Nmap, and many more to detect vulnerabilities with ease
- Confidently perform networking and application attacks using task-oriented recipes
Who This Book Is For
This book is aimed at IT security professionals, pentesters, and security analysts who have basic knowledge of Kali Linux and want to conduct advanced penetration testing techniques.
What You Will Learn
- Installing, setting up and customizing Kali for pentesting on multiple platforms
- Pentesting routers and embedded devices
- Bug hunting 2017
- Pwning and escalating through corporate network
- Buffer overflows 101
- Auditing wireless networks
- Fiddling around with software-defned radio
- Hacking on the run with NetHunter
- Writing good quality reports
In Detail
With the current rate of hacking, it is very important to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2016.2) according to your needs, and move on to core functionalities. This book will start with the installation and configuration of Kali Linux so that you can perform your tests. You will learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp, and Jexboss. You will also learn how to perform network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. Next, you will perform wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Lastly, you will learn how to create an optimum quality pentest report! By the end of this book, you will know how to conduct advanced penetration testing thanks to the book's crisp and task-oriented recipes.
Style and approach
This is a recipe-based book that allows you to venture into some of the most cutting-edge practices and techniques to perform penetration testing with Kali Linux.
Table of contents
- Preface
-
Kali – An Introduction
- Introduction
- Configuring Kali Linux
- Configuring the Xfce environment
- Configuring the Mate environment
- Configuring the LXDE environment
- Configuring the e17 environment
- Configuring the KDE environment
- Prepping up with custom tools
- Pentesting VPN's ike-scan
- Setting up proxychains
- Going on a hunt with Routerhunter
-
Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies
- Introduction
- Getting a list of subdomains
- Using Shodan for fun and profit
- Shodan Honeyscore
- Shodan plugins
- Using Nmap to find open ports
- Bypassing firewalls with Nmap
- Searching for open directories
- Performing deep magic with DMitry
- Hunting for SSL flaws
- Exploring connections with intrace
- Digging deep with theharvester
- Finding the technology behind web apps
- Scanning IPs with masscan
- Sniffing around with Kismet
- Testing routers with firewalk
- Vulnerability Assessment
- Web App Exploitation – Beyond OWASP Top 10
- Network Exploitation on Current Exploitation
- Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng
- Password Attacks – The Fault in Their Stars
-
Have Shell Now What?
- Introduction
- Spawning a TTY Shell
- Looking for weakness
- Horizontal escalation
- Vertical escalation
- Node hopping – pivoting
- Privilege escalation on Windows
- Using PowerSploit
- Pulling plaintext passwords with mimikatz
- Dumping other saved passwords from the machine
- Pivoting into the network
- Backdooring for persistence
- Buffer Overflows
- Playing with Software-Defined Radios
- Kali in Your Pocket – NetHunters and Raspberries
- Writing Reports
Product information
- Title: Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2017
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781787121829
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