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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux Set up a virtual lab and pentest major AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, and CloudFormation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136722
Length 508 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Benjamin Caudill Benjamin Caudill
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Karl Gilbert Gupta Karl Gilbert Gupta
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Preface 1. Section 1: Kali Linux on AWS FREE CHAPTER
2. Setting Up a Pentesting Lab on AWS 3. Setting Up a Kali PentestBox on the Cloud 4. Exploitation on the Cloud using Kali Linux 5. Section 2: Pentesting AWS Elastic Compute Cloud Configuring and Securing
6. Setting Up Your First EC2 Instances 7. Penetration Testing of EC2 Instances using Kali Linux 8. Elastic Block Stores and Snapshots - Retrieving Deleted Data 9. Section 3: Pentesting AWS Simple Storage Service Configuring and Securing
10. Reconnaissance - Identifying Vulnerable S3 Buckets 11. Exploiting Permissive S3 Buckets for Fun and Profit 12. Section 4: AWS Identity Access Management Configuring and Securing
13. Identity Access Management on AWS 14. Privilege Escalation of AWS Accounts Using Stolen Keys, Boto3, and Pacu 15. Using Boto3 and Pacu to Maintain AWS Persistence 16. Section 5: Penetration Testing on Other AWS Services
17. Security and Pentesting of AWS Lambda 18. Pentesting and Securing AWS RDS 19. Targeting Other Services 20. Section 6: Attacking AWS Logging and Security Services
21. Pentesting CloudTrail 22. GuardDuty 23. Section 7: Leveraging AWS Pentesting Tools for Real-World Attacks
24. Using Scout Suite for AWS Security Auditing 25. Using Pacu for AWS Pentesting 26. Putting it All Together - Real - World AWS Pentesting 27. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the boto3 library for reconnaissance

Boto3 is the AWS software development kit (SDK) for Python and can be found here: https://boto3.amazonaws.com/v1/documentation/api/latest/index.html. It provides an interface to the AWS APIs, allowing us to interact with them programmatically, meaning that we can automate and control what we are trying to do in AWS. It is managed by AWS, so it is constantly updated with the latest features and offerings from AWS. It is also used on the backend of the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), so it makes more sense for us to interact with this library than to try and run AWS CLI commands from within our code.

Because we are going to be using Python for our scripts, boto3 is the perfect option to allow us to interact with the AWS APIs. This way, we can automate our reconnaissance/information gathering phase with a lot of the extra stuff already...

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