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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition Become a cybersecurity ethical hacking expert using Metasploit, Nmap, Wireshark, and Burp Suite

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781801819770
Length 572 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Vijay Kumar Velu Vijay Kumar Velu
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Preface 1. Goal-Based Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. Open-Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance 3. Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks 4. Vulnerability Assessment 5. Advanced Social Engineering and Physical Security 6. Wireless and Bluetooth Attacks 7. Exploiting Web-Based Applications 8. Cloud Security Exploitation 9. Bypassing Security Controls 10. Exploitation 11. Action on the Objective and Lateral Movement 12. Privilege Escalations 13. Command and Control 14. Embedded Devices and RFID Hacking 15. Other Books You May Enjoy
16. Index

Exploiting targets using MSF

MSF is equally effective against vulnerabilities in the operating system as well as third-party applications. We will take an example for both scenarios.

Single targets using a simple reverse shell

In this example, we’ll exploit two different vulnerabilities. The first one is the famous ProxyLogon vulnerability that the Hafnium threat actor group exploited by misuing Microsoft Exchange Server in March 2021, which stormed the internet and led to many cybersecurity incidents and also financial fraud around the globe. There are four vulnerabilities that were primarily exploited:

  • CVE-2021-26855: Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) – Where attackers are able to submit specifically crafted HTTP requests remotely without any authentication and the server accepts untrusted connections on TCP port 443.
  • CVE-2021-26857 – An insecure deserialization vulnerability within the Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging Service...
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