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Kali Linux 2:  Windows Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing Kali Linux: a complete pentesting toolkit facilitating smooth backtracking for working hackers

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782168492
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Sharpening the Saw FREE CHAPTER 2. Information Gathering and Vulnerability Assessment 3. Exploitation Tools (Pwnage) 4. Web Application Exploitation 5. Sniffing and Spoofing 6. Password Attacks 7. Windows Privilege Escalation 8. Maintaining Remote Access 9. Reverse Engineering and Stress Testing 10. Forensics Index

Maintaining access


Persistent connections, in the hacker world, are called Phoning Home. Persistence gives the attacker the ability to leave a connection back to the attacking machine and have a full command line or desktop connection to the victim machine.

Why do this? Your network is normally protected by a firewall and the port connections to the internal machines are controlled by the firewall and not by the local machine. Sure, if you're in a box you could turn on telnet and you could access the telnet port from the local network. It is unlikely that you would be able to get to this port from the public network. Any local firewall may block this port, and a network scan would reveal that telnet is running on the victim machine. This would alert the target organization's Network Security team. So instead of having a port to call on the compromised server, it is safer and more effective to have your victim machine call out to your attacking machine.

In this chapter, we will use HTTPS reverse...

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