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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing
Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing

Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing: Secure your network with Kali Linux 2019.1 – the ultimate white hat hackers' toolkit , Third Edition

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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing

Open Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance

Information gathering is the method of gathering all relevant information from publicly available sources, often referred to as open source intelligence (OSINT). Passive reconnaissance through OSINT occurs during the first step of the kill chain when conducting a penetration test, or an attack against a network or server target. An attacker will typically dedicate up to 75% of the overall work effort for a penetration test to reconnaissance, as it is this phase that allows the target to be defined, mapped, and explored for the vulnerabilities that will eventually lead to exploitation.

There are two types of reconnaissance:

  • Passive reconnaissance (direct and indirect)
  • Active reconnaissance

Generally, passive reconnaissance is concerned with analyzing information that is openly available, usually from the target itself or public...

Basic principles of reconnaissance

Reconnaissance, or recon, is the first step of the kill chain when conducting a penetration test or attack against a data target. This is conducted before the actual test or attack of a target network. The findings will give a direction as to where additional reconnaissance may be required, or the vulnerabilities to attack during the exploitation phase. Reconnaissance activities are segmented on a gradient of interactivity with the target network or device.

Passive reconnaissance does not involve any malicious direct interaction with the target network. The attacker's source IP address and activities are not logged (for example, a Google search for the target's email addresses). It is difficult, if not impossible, for the target to differentiate passive reconnaissance from normal business activities.

Passive reconnaissance is further...

Google Hacking Database

Lately, Google is the way in which people keep themselves updated; "Google it" are the common words used to refer to searching for anything that is unknown, or to gather relevant information on the topic in question. In this section, we will narrow down how penetration testers can utilize Google through dorks.

What is a dork ?

Dork is used for a person who is socially inept or socially awkward, or someone who doesn’t care about anything in practice.

Using dork scripts to query Google

The first step to understanding Google Hacking Database is that the testers must understand all the advanced Google operators, just like how machine-level programming engineers must understand computer...

Creating custom wordlists for cracking passwords

There are multiple tools that are readily available in Kali Linux to create custom a wordlist for cracking passwords offline. We will now take a look at a couple of them.

Using CeWL to map a website

CeWL is a Ruby app that spiders a given URL to a specified depth, optionally following external links, and returns a list of words that can then be used for password crackers such as John the Ripper.

The following screenshot provides the custom list of words generated from the cyberhia.com index page:

Extracting words from Twitter using twofi

...

Summary

The first baby step in the attack process or kill chain is to conduct information harvesting, or reconnaissance, to identify the right information on the target with the use of OSINT. Passive reconnaissance provides a real-time view of an attacker's eye on a company. This is a stealthy assessment; the IP address or activities of an attacker are almost indistinguishable from normal business as usual. The same information is extremely fruitful during social engineering types of attacks, or facilitating other attacks. We have now built our own custom script to save time, and performed passive reconnaissance using both offensive and defensive OSINT.

In the next chapter, we will be learning the different types of reconnaissance in an active sense, and make use of the data that we harvested using OSINT. Although active reconnaissance techniques will provide more information...

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Key benefits

  • Employ advanced pentesting techniques with Kali Linux to build highly secured systems
  • Discover various stealth techniques to remain undetected and defeat modern infrastructures
  • Explore red teaming techniques to exploit secured environment

Description

This book takes you, as a tester or security practitioner, through the reconnaissance, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation activities used by pentesters. To start with, you'll use a laboratory environment to validate tools and techniques, along with an application that supports a collaborative approach for pentesting. You'll then progress to passive reconnaissance with open source intelligence and active reconnaissance of the external and internal infrastructure. You'll also focus on how to select, use, customize, and interpret the results from different vulnerability scanners, followed by examining specific routes to the target, which include bypassing physical security and the exfiltration of data using a variety of techniques. You'll discover concepts such as social engineering, attacking wireless networks, web services, and embedded devices. Once you are confident with these topics, you'll learn the practical aspects of attacking user client systems by backdooring with fileless techniques, followed by focusing on the most vulnerable part of the network – directly attacking the end user. By the end of this book, you'll have explored approaches for carrying out advanced pentesting in tightly secured environments, understood pentesting and hacking techniques employed on embedded peripheral devices.

Who is this book for?

This third edition of Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing is for you if you are a security analyst, pentester, ethical hacker, IT professional, or security consultant wanting to maximize the success of your infrastructure testing using some of the advanced features of Kali Linux. Prior exposure of penetration testing and ethical hacking basics will be helpful in making the most out of this book.

What you will learn

  • Configure the most effective Kali Linux tools to test infrastructure security
  • Employ stealth to avoid detection in the infrastructure being tested
  • Recognize when stealth attacks are being used against your infrastructure
  • Exploit networks and data systems using wired and wireless networks as well as web services
  • Identify and download valuable data from target systems
  • Maintain access to compromised systems
  • Use social engineering to compromise the weakest part of the network - the end users

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Table of Contents

15 Chapters
Goal-Based Penetration Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Open Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Vulnerability Assessment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Advanced Social Engineering and Physical Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Wireless Attacks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploiting Web-Based Applications Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Client-Side Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Bypassing Security Controls Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Exploitation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Action on the Objective and Lateral Movement Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Privilege Escalation Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Command and Control Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Embedded Devices and RFID Hacking Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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