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Product type Paperback

Published in May 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849517744

Length 414 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Lee Allen

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Planning and Scoping for a Successful Penetration Test

2. Advanced Reconnaissance Techniques FREE CHAPTER

3. Enumeration: Choosing Your Targets Wisely

4. Remote Exploitation

5. Web Application Exploitation

6. Exploits and Client-Side Attacks

7. Post-Exploitation

8. Bypassing Firewalls and Avoiding Detection

9. Data Collection Tools and Reporting

10. Setting Up Virtual Test Lab Environments

11. Take the Challenge – Putting It All Together

Index

DNS recon

Domain Name System (DNS) can provide valuable data during the reconnaissance phase. If you do not already understand DNS, you may want to take some time to get a good grasp on the service and how it works. At a very basic level, DNS is used to translate domain names into IP addresses. Luckily for us, there are many tools available that are excellent at extracting the data that we need from nameservers. An example of the information you are able to gather includes:

Record	Description
CNAME	Alias, used to tie many names to a single IP. An IP address can have multiple CNAME records associated with it.
A	Used to translate a domain or subdomain name to a thirty-two bit IP address. It can also store additional useful information.
MX	Ties a domain name to associated mail servers.

There are other record types that can be collected from DNS tools as well; the records listed in the table are the most popular and often, the most useful.