You're reading from Bash Shell Scripting for Pentesters Master the art of command-line exploitation and enhance your penetration testing workflows

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835880821

Length 402 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Steve Campbell

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Getting Started with Bash Shell Scripting

2. Chapter 1: Bash Command-Line and Its Hacking Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: File and Directory Management

4. Chapter 3: Variables, Conditionals, Loops, and Arrays

5. Chapter 4: Regular Expressions

6. Chapter 5: Functions and Script Organization

7. Chapter 6: Bash Networking

8. Chapter 7: Parallel Processing

9. Part 2: Bash Scripting for Pentesting

10. Chapter 8: Reconnaissance and Information Gathering

11. Chapter 9: Web Application Pentesting with Bash

12. Chapter 10: Network and Infrastructure Pentesting with Bash

13. Chapter 11: Privilege Escalation in the Bash Shell

14. Chapter 12: Persistence and Pivoting

15. Chapter 13: Pentest Reporting with Bash

16. Part 3: Advanced Applications of Bash Scripting for Pentesting

17. Chapter 14: Evasion and Obfuscation

18. Chapter 15: Interfacing with Artificial Intelligence

19. Chapter 16: DevSecOps for Pentesters

20. Index

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Technical requirements

To follow along with the exercises in this chapter, you’ll need a Linux environment. This book assumes you have enough skill to install an operating system and are familiar with installing and configuring virtual machine environments. If you need help setting up your lab environment, the VirtualBox online manual (Oracle VM VirtualBox User Manual, (https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/UserManual.pdf) and several YouTube videos (VirtualBox – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=virtualbox) will be helpful.

Fortunately, there are many ways to configure a Bash learning environment for free. All examples will be shown using Kali Linux. However, any Linux or macOS environment will work.

“Kali Linux is an open source, Debian-based Linux distribution geared toward various information security tasks, such as penetration testing, security research, computer forensics, and reverse engineering.” (Kali Linux, https:...

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