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Learn Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Learn Penetration Testing Understand the art of penetration testing and develop your white hat hacker skills

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838640163
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rishalin Pillay Rishalin Pillay
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Basics FREE CHAPTER
2. Introduction to Penetration Testing 3. Getting Started with Kali Linux 4. Section 2: Exploitation
5. Performing Information Gathering 6. Mastering Social Engineering 7. Diving into the Metasploit Framework 8. Understanding Password Attacks 9. Working with Burp Suite 10. Attacking Web Applications 11. Getting Started with Wireless Attacks 12. Section 3: Post Exploitation
13. Moving Laterally and Escalating Your Privileges 14. Antivirus Evasion 15. Maintaining Control within the Environment 16. Section 4: Putting It All Together
17. Reporting and Acting on Your Findings 18. Where Do I Go from Here? 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Moving Laterally and Escalating Your Privileges

Now that you have exploited the system, you may be wondering what's next. Post-exploitation is the next step and is where we want to gain further access to targets within the internal network. In this chapter, we will look at how we can obtain higher privileges than what we currently have. This might entail further sniffing across the network, along with performing lateral movement techniques.

In this chapter, you will learn about different post-exploitation techniques and why post-exploitation forms an integral part of a penetration test. You will learn how to build an AD lab that you can use to test your post-exploitation skills against. By using the tools that are available, you will understand their purposes and how they can be used in a penetration test so that you can ensure you have access to the exploited system.

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