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Kali Linux 2 ??? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Kali Linux 2 ??? Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Achieve the gold standard in penetration testing with Kali using this masterpiece, now in its third edition!

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785888427
Length 572 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Tedi Heriyanto Tedi Heriyanto
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Gerard Johansen Gerard Johansen
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Lee Allen Lee Allen
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Shakeel Ali Shakeel Ali
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Preface 1. Beginning with Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Penetration Testing Methodology 3. Target Scoping 4. Information Gathering 5. Target Discovery 6. Enumerating Target 7. Vulnerability Mapping 8. Social Engineering 9. Target Exploitation 10. Privilege Escalation 11. Maintaining Access 12. Wireless Penetration Testing 13. Kali Nethunter 14. Documentation and Reporting A. Supplementary Tools B. Key Resources Index

HID attacks

Nethunter has several built in tools that allow you to configure an HID attack. In one of these tools, Nethunter leverages the standard command line to perform several commands in succession. To access the HID attacks menu, click on Nethunter and then HID Attacks. Once on the HID Attack screen, we will see two options. One is a PowerSploit attack and the second is the Windows CMD attack. For this section, we will look at the Windows CMD attack in detail.

In this scenario, we are going to use the Nethunter platform and connect it to a target machine. Our attack will leverage the HID vulnerability to run the command ipconfig and add a user, offsec, to the system using the command net user offsec Nethunter! / add. Finally, we will add that user account to the local administrator's group using the command net localgroup administrators offsec /add:

HID attacks

Next, we need to set the User Account Control (UAC) bypass. This allows Nethunter to run the command line as administrator. Click...

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