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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

Performing DNS spoofing and redirecting traffic


DNS spoofing is an attack in which the person carrying out the MITM attack uses it to change the name resolution in the DNS server's response to the victim, sending them to a malicious page instead of to the one they requested while still using the legitimate name.

In this recipe, we will use Ettercap to perform a DNS spoofing attack and make the victim visit our site when they really wanted to visit a different site.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will use our Windows client virtual machine but this time with the network adapter bridged to consult DNS resolution. Its IP address in this recipe will be 192.168.71.14.

The attacking machine will be our Kali Linux machine with the IP address 192.168.71.8. It also will need to have an Apache server running and have a demo index.html page, ours will contain the following:

<h1>Spoofed SITE</h1>

How to do it...

  1. Supposing we already have our Apache server running and the fake site correctly...

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