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Pentesting Industrial Control Systems

You're reading from   Pentesting Industrial Control Systems An ethical hacker's guide to analyzing, compromising, mitigating, and securing industrial processes

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800202382
Length 450 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Paul Smith Paul Smith
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Table of Contents (19) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1 - Getting Started
2. Chapter 1: Using Virtualization FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Route the Hardware 4. Chapter 3: I Love My Bits – Lab Setup 5. Section 2 - Understanding the Cracks
6. Chapter 4: Open Source Ninja 7. Chapter 5: Span Me If You Can 8. Chapter 6: Packet Deep Dive 9. Section 3 - I’m a Pirate, Hear Me Roar
10. Chapter 7: Scanning 101 11. Chapter 8: Protocols 202 12. Chapter 9: Ninja 308 13. Chapter 10: I Can Do It 420 14. Chapter 11: Whoot… I Have To Go Deep 15. Section 4 -Capturing Flags and Turning off Lights
16. Chapter 12: I See the Future 17. Chapter 13: Pwned but with Remorse 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we segmented our lab network further by adding a new interface to our firewall. We then utilized the skills we learned about in Chapter 11, Whoot…. I Have To Go Deep, to gain a dynamic shell and launch a remote desktop session with proxy chains to our workstation victim. After this, we discussed the various SCADA and DCS systems that we could encounter in our pentesting journeys. We reused various credentials to exploit the UI of our SCADA system before capitalizing on a misconfigured FTP server and, in turn, gaining a reverse shell back to our attacking box. We exploited the system right up to the control hardware and in doing so, discussed the pitfalls of going deeper into the control plane. Gaining this deep of a foothold should suffice for 99.99% of the engagements that you will be part of.

Understanding the technology and the ramifications and outcome of going deeper will be an important addition to the out brief report. We will do this in...

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