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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook Practical recipes that combine strategies, attacks, and tools for advanced penetration testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789952308
Length 472 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kali - An Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies 3. Vulnerability Assessment - Poking for Holes 4. Web App Exploitation - Beyond OWASP Top 10 5. Network Exploitation 6. Wireless Attacks - Getting Past Aircrack-ng 7. Password Attacks - The Fault in Their Stars 8. Have Shell, Now What? 9. Buffer Overflows 10. Elementary, My Dear Watson - Digital Forensics 11. Playing with Software-Defined Radios 12. Kali in Your Pocket - NetHunters and Raspberries 13. Writing Reports 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Finding technology behind webapps using WhatWeb

There is no point starting a pentest against a web application without knowing what the actual technology is behind it. For example, it would be absolutely useless to run dirs3arch to look for files with the extension PHP when the technology is actually Asp. So, in this recipe, we will learn how to use a simple tool, WhatWeb, to reveal the technology behind a webapp. It comes by default in Kali.

It can also be installed manually from the following URL: https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb.

How to do it...

  1. The WhatWeb tool can be launched by using the following command:
whatweb

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

  1. The domain name can be...
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