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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing Secure your network with Kali Linux 2019.1 – the ultimate white hat hackers' toolkit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789340563
Length 548 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Robert Beggs Robert Beggs
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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 Attacks 7. Exploiting Web-Based Applications 8. Client-Side Exploitation 9. Bypassing Security Controls 10. Exploitation 11. Action on the Objective and Lateral Movement 12. Privilege Escalation 13. Command and Control 14. Embedded Devices and RFID Hacking 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to RouterSploit Framework

Similar to the Metasploit Framework, the RouterSploit Framework is an open source exploitation framework to exploit embedded devices, specifically routers by Threatnine (https://www.threat9.com). The tool can be installed to Kali by just running apt-get install routersploit from the Terminal. The latest version of RouterSploit is 3.4.0 and it comes with 130 known exploits and 4 different scanners, depending on the device type.

The following are the modules of RouterSploit:

  • exploits: Module that contacts all the identified vulnerabilities
  • creds: Module to test for login credentials with predefined usernames and passwords
  • scanners: Module that runs the scanning with the preconfigured list of vulnerabilities
  • payloads: Module to generate payloads according to the device type
  • generic/encoders: Module that includes the generic payloads and...
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