Book description
Sharpen your pentesting skill in a bootcamp
About This Book
- Get practical demonstrations with in-depth explanations of complex security-related problems
- Familiarize yourself with the most common web vulnerabilities
- Get step-by-step guidance on managing testing results and reporting
Who This Book Is For
This book is for IT security enthusiasts and administrators who want to understand penetration testing quickly.
What You Will Learn
- Perform different attacks such as MiTM, and bypassing SSL encryption
- Crack passwords and wireless network keys with brute-forcing and wordlists
- Test web applications for vulnerabilities
- Use the Metasploit Framework to launch exploits and write your own Metasploit modules
- Recover lost files, investigate successful hacks, and discover hidden data
- Write organized and effective penetration testing reports
In Detail
Penetration Testing Bootcamp delivers practical, learning modules in manageable chunks. Each chapter is delivered in a day, and each day builds your competency in Penetration Testing.
This book will begin by taking you through the basics and show you how to set up and maintain the C&C Server. You will also understand how to scan for vulnerabilities and Metasploit, learn how to setup connectivity to a C&C server and maintain that connectivity for your intelligence gathering as well as offsite processing. Using TCPDump filters, you will gain understanding of the sniffing and spoofing traffic. This book will also teach you the importance of clearing up the tracks you leave behind after the penetration test and will show you how to build a report from all the data obtained from the penetration test.
In totality, this book will equip you with instructions through rigorous tasks, practical callouts, and assignments to reinforce your understanding of penetration testing.
Style and approach
This book is delivered in the form of a 10-day boot camp style book. The day-by-day approach will help you get to know everything about penetration testing, from the use of network reconnaissance tools, to the writing of custom zero-day buffer overflow exploits.
Table of contents
- Preface
- Planning and Preparation
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Information Gathering
- Understanding the current environment
- Where to look for information – checking out the toolbox!
- Utilizing whois for information gathering
- Enumerating DNS with dnsmap
- Checking for a DNS BIND version
- Probing the network with Nmap
- Checking for DNS recursion with NSE
- Fingerprinting systems with P0f
- Firewall reconnaissance with Firewalk
- Detecting a web application firewall
- Protocol fuzzing with DotDotPwn
- Using Netdiscover to find undocumented IPs
- Enumerating your findings
- Summary
- Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server
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Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit
- Vulnerability scanning tools
- Scanning techniques
- OpenVAS
- Getting started with OpenVAS
- Performing scans against the environment
- Getting started with Metasploit
- Exploiting our targets with Metasploit
- Understanding client-side attacks
- Using BeEF for browser-based exploitation
- Using SET for client-side exploitation
- Summary
- Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing
- Password-based Attacks
- Attacks on the Network Infrastructure
- Web Application Attacks
- Cleaning Up and Getting Out
- Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report
Product information
- Title: Penetration Testing Bootcamp
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2017
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781787288744
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