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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
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface
1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment 2. Network Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 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

Determining the OS using nmap and xprobe2


In this recipe, we will be using tools to what kind of system the target IP is running on. Mapping a target IP with a operating system is necessary to help shortlist and verify vulnerabilities.

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will use the tool to determine the operating system. All we require is an IP address against which we will run the OS enumeration scan. Others tools that can be used are hping and xprobe2.

How to do it...

Let begin by the system:

  1. Open and type the following:
nmap -O <IP address>

The output will be as shown in the following screenshot:

We can use advanced operators to help us find out the operating system in a more aggressive manner. Type the following command in terminal:

nmap O --osscan-guess <IP address>

The will as in the screenshot:

This shows that using additional parameters of the operating system detection in nmap, we can get a probable idea of the best fit.

  1. Xprobe2 uses a different to nmap...
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