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Windows and Linux Penetration Testing from Scratch

You're reading from   Windows and Linux Penetration Testing from Scratch Harness the power of pen testing with Kali Linux for unbeatable hard-hitting results

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801815123
Length 510 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (23) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: Recon and Exploitation
2. Chapter 1: Open Source Intelligence FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Bypassing Network Access Control 4. Chapter 3: Sniffing and Spoofing 5. Chapter 4: Windows Passwords on the Network 6. Chapter 5: Assessing Network Security 7. Chapter 6: Cryptography and the Penetration Tester 8. Chapter 7: Advanced Exploitation with Metasploit 9. Part 2: Vulnerability Fundamentals
10. Chapter 8: Python Fundamentals 11. Chapter 9: PowerShell Fundamentals 12. Chapter 10: Shellcoding - The Stack 13. Chapter 11: Shellcoding – Bypassing Protections 14. Chapter 12: Shellcoding – Evading Antivirus 15. Chapter 13: Windows Kernel Security 16. Chapter 14: Fuzzing Techniques 17. Part 3: Post-Exploitation
18. Chapter 15: Going Beyond the Foothold 19. Chapter 16: Escalating Privileges 20. Chapter 17: Maintaining Access 21. Answers 22. Other Books You May Enjoy

How to get it right the first time – generating payloads

We’ve all seen some people who get their hands on Metasploit and start pulling the trigger. If you’re in your lab at home and are just watching what happens, that’s fine. If you do that on a professional assessment, you’re likely to get caught, setting off alarms without even getting anywhere. After all, pen testing isn’t about hacking a sitting duck – your client will have defenses that, for the most part, will be pretty solid. If your client isn’t good at prevention, they’ll probably be good at detection, and poorly crafted payloads hitting random IPs is a no-brainer for a defender. With this in mind, we need to learn how to craft our payloads according to the task at hand to maximize our success. The more successful we are, the more value we can bring to our client.

Installing Wine32 and Shellter

Thankfully, Wine32 and Shellter are both included in Kali...

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