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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781783982165
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Dhruv Shah
Ishan Girdhar Ishan Girdhar
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
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Preface
1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment FREE CHAPTER 2. Network Information Gathering 3. Network Vulnerability Assessment 4. Network Exploitation 5. Web Application Information Gathering 6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment 7. Web Application Exploitation 8. System and Password Exploitation 9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation 10. Wireless Exploitation Pen Testing 101 Basics

Cracking FTP login using custom wordlist


In this recipe, we will how to FTP to find a valid login. We will make use of the list generated in the preceding information-gathering recipe.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will make use of a tool named Hydra. It is a parallelized login cracker that supports numerous attack protocols. There are many tools available in Kali Linux for cracking passwords; however, Hydra is very handy. Now that we have Hydra and the username list, let's begin the attack.

How to do it...

  1. Knowing that our username list is called username, ensure that terminal points to the path where the username file is. We will run the following command in the terminal:
hydra -e nsr -L username <IP address> ftp

The output will be as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Check to see if the credentials received are working:

We connect to the FTP as shown in the following screenshot:

We have successfully found valid credentials and attained the logins of potential users of the...

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