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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

Discovering live servers over the network


In this recipe, we learn how to perform the  of live network devices/machines over the network, using two methods: Passive information gathering and active information gathering.

We will examine the network traffic of our as a part of our passive information gathering, followed by information gathering, in which we will send packets over the network to detect active machines and services running on them.

Getting ready

In order to begin with this recipe, will be using a simple ARP sniffing/scanning tool called netdiscover. It is a net-discovery tool which can be used for active/passive ARP reconnaissance.

How to do it...

Let's start with passive reconnaissance:

  1. To start netdiscover, ensure that you are connected via Wi-Fi with a valid IP address. Open the terminal and enter the following command for passive reconnaissance:
netdiscover - p

The output will be as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. To perform an active scan over the network to discover...
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