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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

Creating workspaces to organize your attack


First, we need to set up a workspace. Workspaces are a big help in keeping your testing in order. The workspaces hold all your collected data of the test, including any login credentials that are collected and any system data collected during an exploit. It's best to keep your testing data separate so you can compare the results of a previous test later. We're going to set up a project called TestCompany-int-20150402. This is a way to name projects, with <client-name>-[ int (internal) | ext (external) ]-<start-date (unix-style)> This will help you 6 months down the road to remember which test is what.

To create a new project type:

workspace -a TestCompany-int-20150402

To enter the workspace type:

workspace TestCompany-int-20150402

Notice that after entering the workspace and typing the workspace command again, the asterisk has moved the TestCompany project. The asterisk shows the working workspace.

We can pull data from a scan into the...

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