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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

Being the MITM and capturing traffic with Wireshark


Ettercap can detect when relevant information such as passwords is transmitted through it. However, it is often not enough to intercept a set of credentials when performing a penetration test, we might be looking for other information like credit card numbers, social security numbers, names, pictures, or documents. It is therefore useful to have a tool that can listen to all the traffic in the network so that we can save and analyze it later; this tool is a sniffer and the best one for our purposes is Wireshark and it is included in Kali Linux..

In this recipe, we will use Wireshark to capture all the packets sent between the client and the server in order to obtain information.

Getting ready

We need to have MITM working before starting this recipe.

How to do it...

  1. Run Wireshark from the middle of the Windows client and vulnerable_vm from Kali's Applications menu | Sniffing & Spoofing or from the terminal run:

    wireshark
  2. When Wireshark loads...

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