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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781783982165
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Dhruv Shah
Ishan Girdhar Ishan Girdhar
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Customer Feedback
Preface
1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment 2. Network Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Network Vulnerability Assessment 4. Network Exploitation 5. Web Application Information Gathering 6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment 7. Web Application Exploitation 8. System and Password Exploitation 9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation 10. Wireless Exploitation Pen Testing 101 Basics

Gathering information for credential cracking


In order to perform a successful crack, it is important to have a list of possible and passwords. One of the ways this is possible is by making use of the dictionaries available in the Kali Linux Distro. These are located under /usr/share/wordlists/. The following screenshot shows the available wordlists in Kali:

You will find a rockyou.txt.gz file, which you will need to unzip. Use the following command in terminal to unzip the contents of the file:

gunzip rockyou.txt.gz

Once this is done, the file will be extracted, as shown in the preceding screenshot. This is a prebuilt list of available passwords in Kali Linux. Let us begin to formulate one of ours with the help of enumeration and information gathering.

Getting ready

To commence, we will first find the IP address of the hosted Stapler machine and begin enumerating information to collect and create a set of custom passwords.

How to do it...

The steps for the recipe are as follows:

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