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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

You're reading from   Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch Your stepping stone to penetration testing

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788622059
Length 564 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Zaid Sabih Zaid Sabih
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Preface 1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Lab 3. Linux Basics 4. Network Penetration Testing 5. Pre-Connection Attacks 6. Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access 7. Post-Connection Attacks 8. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks 9. Network Penetration Testing, Detection, and Security 10. Gaining Access to Computer Devices 11. Scanning Vulnerabilities Using Tools 12. Client-Side Attacks 13. Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering 14. Attack and Detect Trojans with BeEF 15. Attacks Outside the Local Network 16. Post Exploitation 17. Website Penetration Testing 18. Website Pentesting - Information Gathering 19. File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities 20. SQL Injection Vulnerabilities 21. Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities 22. Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP 23. Other Books You May Enjoy

XSS BeEF exploitation

We haven't yet seen a good way of exploiting XSS vulnerabilities; all we have done so far is inject a very simple code that displays an alert on the screen saying that this website is vulnerable. What we are going to do now is something more advanced. We want to control the victims and do stuff on the target computers, on the people that visit the vulnerable pages where we have injected our code. We're going to use the BeEF browser to do this. We had a look at BeEF in previous chapters. What we're going to do here is use the BeEF hook URL and inject it into the stored XSS page so that everybody who visits that page will be hooked to BeEF. Then, we'll be able to run all the commands that BeEF allows us to run on the target computer.

Let's start BeEF. If we look at the online browsers, we have no victims at the moment. So, in order...

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