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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook End-to-end penetration testing solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787121829
Length 376 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Himanshu Sharma Himanshu Sharma
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Kali – An Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Gathering Intel and Planning Attack Strategies 3. Vulnerability Assessment 4. Web App Exploitation – Beyond OWASP Top 10 5. Network Exploitation on Current Exploitation 6. Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng 7. Password Attacks – The Fault in Their Stars 8. Have Shell Now What? 9. Buffer Overflows 10. Playing with Software-Defined Radios 11. Kali in Your Pocket – NetHunters and Raspberries 12. Writing Reports

Dumping other saved passwords from the machine


You have already learned about dumping and saving plaintext passwords from the memory. However, sometimes, not all passwords are dumped. Not to worry; Metasploit has other post-exploitation modules, using which we can gather saved passwords of different applications and services running on the server we compromised. 

How to do it...

First, let's check what applications are running on the machine. We use this command:

use post/windows/gather/enum_applications

We see the options; now all we need is our session, using the following command:

set session 1

Run it and we will see the list of applications installed on the system:

Now that we know what applications are running, let's try to collect more information. We will use use post/windows/gather/enum_chrome.

It will gather all the browsing history, saved passwords, bookmarks, and so on. Again, we set our session and run this:

We will see that all the gathered data has been saved in a txt:

Now we will try...

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