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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide

You're reading from   Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide Learn to perform professional penetration testing for highly-secured environments with this intensive hands-on guide with this book and ebook.

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517744
Length 414 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Lee Allen Lee Allen
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Advanced Penetration Testing for Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate Security Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Planning and Scoping for a Successful Penetration Test FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Reconnaissance Techniques 3. Enumeration: Choosing Your Targets Wisely 4. Remote Exploitation 5. Web Application Exploitation 6. Exploits and Client-Side Attacks 7. Post-Exploitation 8. Bypassing Firewalls and Avoiding Detection 9. Data Collection Tools and Reporting 10. Setting Up Virtual Test Lab Environments 11. Take the Challenge – Putting It All Together Index

Looking at traffic patterns


Network sniffing can be a huge time saver. It is more difficult to use remote Windows machines to perform this task for you as the network card needs to be in promiscuous mode, but it can be done. Ideally, you will find a Unix or Linux host that can be turned into a listening station with little to no effort.

Here we look at a compromised Linux host on the 192.168.101.0/24 subnet. Our attacking machine resides on 192.168.75.0/24 and cannot see the same traffic that the Linux machine does. We will use tcpdump which is readily available to many Linux distributions:

tcpdump -i eth0 -c 100 -n

Here we invoke tcpdump on the remote Kioptrix machine we have SSH'd into using the games account we set up during the post exploitation chapter. We use the -i option to specify that we would like to use eth0 as our listening adapter. We then tell the adapter to only capture the next 100 packets. The -n switch is used to avoid DNS lookups and will display IP numbers rather than...

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