PowerShell for Penetration Testing

Table of Contents

Preface

Part 1: Introduction to Penetration Testing and PowerShell

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Introduction to Penetration Testing

What is penetrating testing?

Stakeholders

Ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements

Managing and executing a penetration test

Using the cyber kill chain

Standards in penetration testing

Report writing

Summary

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Programming Principles in PowerShell

Basic concepts of PowerShell and pipelines in PowerShell

JSON in PowerShell

Retrieving JSON data from web APIs

Parsing JSON data

JSON manipulation for payloads

Interacting with JSON from files

Web scraping and data extraction

XML in PowerShell

Reading and parsing XML files

Extracting information from XML nodes

Modifying XML data

Crafting XML payloads

XML injection testing

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