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Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook Evade antiviruses, bypass firewalls, and exploit complex environments with the most widely used penetration testing framework

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Published in Feb 2018
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ISBN-13 9781788623179
Length 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Monika Agarwal Monika Agarwal
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Abhinav Singh Abhinav Singh
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Preface 1. Metasploit Quick Tips for Security Professionals FREE CHAPTER 2. Information Gathering and Scanning 3. Server-Side Exploitation 4. Meterpreter 5. Post-Exploitation 6. Using MSFvenom 7. Client-Side Exploitation and Antivirus Bypass 8. Social-Engineer Toolkit 9. Working with Modules for Penetration Testing 10. Exploring Exploits 11. Wireless Network Penetration Testing 12. Cloud Penetration Testing 13. Best Practices 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Connecting to Kali using SSH

To connect to the Kali machine, all we need is an SSH client. Most Unix, Linux, and macOS operating systems already have an SSH client installed; however, if you are using Windows to connect to the Kali Linux machine, you will need to install a client such as PuTTY, which is one of the most popular and free SSH clients for Windows.

How to do it...

  1. To connect to the Kali Linux virtual machine, you need to know its IP address. To find the IP address, log in to the virtual machine, open a Terminal window, and enter the ip address command, or ip a for short:
root@kali:~# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:0c:29:b6:03:93 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.216.5/24 brd 192.168.216255 scope global eth0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:feb6:393/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Note down the IP address of the second interface, in this example 192.168.216.5.

  1. Now, use the SSH client on the host operating system. Enter the username root followed by the @ symbol and the IP address of the Kali Linux virtual machine, 192.168.216.5:

In this SSH session, we can now interact with the Kali Linux virtual machine using the SSH client.

You will need to verify the SSH certificate after you launch the connection.
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