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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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Phil Bramwell Phil Bramwell
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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

Escalating your pivot – passing attacks down the line

Let me paint a scenario for you. From inside the restricted network you were able to plug into, you’ve just established your foothold on a Windows 7 Enterprise machine with a NIC facing an internal 192.168.249.0/24 network. You can’t see this network from your position, so using your Meterpreter session, you establish routing via your Windows 7 pivot point. After some further reconnaissance, you determine that 192.168.249.128 is running an FTP service. However, you can’t connect to it from your pivot point. After watching the LAN, you notice traffic passing between 192.168.249.128 and 192.168.249.130, so you suspect a trust relationship between those two hosts. You also see the Windows user Phil frequently, so it could be an administrator’s account that is used on different machines or a shared local account for the purposes of setting up these hosts.

I already tried to pivot to 192.168...

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