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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

Using Metasploit's browser_autpwn2 to attack a client


Metasploit Framework includes a huge collection of client-side exploits, many of them are meant to exploit known vulnerabilities in web browsers and there is a module that has the ability to detect the version of browser the client is using and picks the best exploit to trigger, this module is browser_autopwn or browser_autopwn2, in its newest version.

In this recipe, we will set up an attack with browser_autopwn2 and get it ready for a victim to come in.

How to do it...

  1. Start msfconsole.

  2. We will use version 2 of Browser Autopwn (BAP2):

    use auxiliary/server/browser_autopwn2
    
  3. Let's take a look at what configurable options it has:

    show options
    
  4. We will set our Kali server to receive connections:

    set SRVHOST 192.168.56.1
    
  5. Then, we will create a path /kittens for the server to respond to:

    set URIPATH /kittens
    
  6. This module triggers a multitude of exploits, including some for Android; suppose we are setting up an attack with PCs as targets and don't want...

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