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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

You're reading from   Penetration Testing Bootcamp Quickly get up and running with pentesting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288744
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Beltrame Jason Beltrame
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning and Preparation 2. Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server 4. Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit 5. Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing 6. Password-based Attacks 7. Attacks on the Network Infrastructure 8. Web Application Attacks 9. Cleaning Up and Getting Out 10. Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Using SET for client-side exploitation

SET is a tool that was designed to create social engineering-based attack vectors. SET can create custom attacks very rapidly. You can create malicious payloads, QRcode-based attacks, and Powershell attacks just to name a few. You can even start up a browser locally on the box, create malicious code, and use Metasploit to deliver. I will be setting up a fake site and harvesting users credentials while they think they are logging in. I am going to show you how easy it is to use and why it's my favorite tool for testing users:

  1. The first thing we are going to do is start SET:
  1. From the main menu, there are many options available to use. Since I want to create Social-Engineering Attacks, I will select option 1. Definitely explore other options in this powerful tool:
  1. From here, I will select option 2. I am using this option because...
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