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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

You're reading from   Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch Your stepping stone to penetration testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622059
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zaid Sabih Zaid Sabih
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Lab 3. Linux Basics 4. Network Penetration Testing 5. Pre-Connection Attacks 6. Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access 7. Post-Connection Attacks 8. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks 9. Network Penetration Testing, Detection, and Security 10. Gaining Access to Computer Devices 11. Scanning Vulnerabilities Using Tools 12. Client-Side Attacks 13. Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering 14. Attack and Detect Trojans with BeEF 15. Attacks Outside the Local Network 16. Post Exploitation 17. Website Penetration Testing 18. Website Pentesting - Information Gathering 19. File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities 20. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities 21. Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities 22. Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

Detecting Trojans using a sandbox

Now we are going to look at another way to discover malicious files, by using a sandbox. A sandbox is basically a place where our file will be executed and analyzed. It will check whether any ports will be opened, if it's going to modify registry entries—basically, if it's going to do any suspicious stuff. It's not an antivirus program. Our Trojan might pass antivirus programs, our Trojan passed all antivirus programs, but the sandbox applications, or the sandbox environments, will run it in a controlled environment, see whether it does anything suspicious, and give us a report. We can Google sandbox online, and an example of it is a website called Hybrid Analysis (https://www.hybrid-analysis.com/).

Using the website is very simple: just go to the URL, select a file, and upload it. We can see the report in the following screenshot...

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