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You're reading from Penetration Testing Bootcamp Quickly get up and running with pentesting techniques

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787288744

Length 258 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Jason Beltrame

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. Planning and Preparation FREE CHAPTER

2. Information Gathering

3. Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server

4. Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit

5. Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing

6. Password-based Attacks

7. Attacks on the Network Infrastructure

8. Web Application Attacks

9. Cleaning Up and Getting Out

10. Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Using Netdiscover to find undocumented IPs

Netdiscover is a great tool for finding potential IP addresses on the network for further examination. It accomplishes this by sending out ARP messages for the given network you specify. By running this tool, you can discover any live hosts on any type of network, wired or wireless. It also attempts to discover the vendor by the MAC address, which can be very helpful in finding vulnerabilities to exploit.

Next is a screenshot with netdiscover tool running in my lab:

This is a tcpdump command of ARP requests that are being sent out by the netdiscover tool to discover these live IP addresses:

The tcpdump shows how netdiscover does an ARP request for all the hosts in the network range and in this case 192.168.33.0/24. Based on the replies, you can see what is alive currently on the network.

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Authors (1)

Jason Beltrame

Jason Beltrame is a Systems Engineer for Cisco, living in the Eastern Pennsylvania Area. He has worked in the Network and Security field for 18 years, with the last 2 years as a Systems Engineer, and the prior 16 years on the operational side as a Network Engineer. During that time, Jason has achieved the following certifications: CISSP, CCNP, CCNP Security, CCDP, CCSP, CISA, ITILv2, and VCP5. He is a graduate from DeSales University with a BS in Computer Science. He has a passion for security and loves learning. In his current role at Cisco, Jason focuses on Security and Enterprise Networks, but as a generalist SE, he covers all aspects of technology. Jason works with commercial territory customers, helping them achieve their technology goals based on their individual business requirements. His 16 years of real-world experience allows him to relate with his customers and understand both their challenges and desired outcomes.

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