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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

Questions

Answer the following questions to test your knowledge of this chapter:

  1. The persistence_exe module works by adding a value in the _________. 
  2. What does the msfvenom flag -f psh mean?
  3. The PowerSploit Persistence module scripts must be run in this order: 1) New-UserPersistenceOption, 2) New-ElevatedPersistenceOption, and 3) Add-Persistence – true or false?
  4. A hacker has uploaded and persisted netcat on a compromised Windows Server 2008 box. They then run this command to allow their connections into the backdoor – netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="WindowsUpdate" dir=out action=allow protocol=TCP localport=9009. They can’t connect to their backdoor. Why?
  5. Permanent WMI subscriptions run as _____. 
  6. In Metasploit, a .rc file is a _________. 
  7. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE is shorted to ________ when using reg setval.
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