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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

You're reading from   Penetration Testing Bootcamp Quickly get up and running with pentesting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288744
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Beltrame Jason Beltrame
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning and Preparation 2. Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server 4. Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit 5. Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing 6. Password-based Attacks 7. Attacks on the Network Infrastructure 8. Web Application Attacks 9. Cleaning Up and Getting Out 10. Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Using Netdiscover to find undocumented IPs

Netdiscover is a great tool for finding potential IP addresses on the network for further examination. It accomplishes this by sending out ARP messages for the given network you specify. By running this tool, you can discover any live hosts on any type of network, wired or wireless. It also attempts to discover the vendor by the MAC address, which can be very helpful in finding vulnerabilities to exploit.

Next is a screenshot with netdiscover tool running in my lab:

This is a tcpdump command of ARP requests that are being sent out by the netdiscover tool to discover these live IP addresses:

The tcpdump shows how netdiscover does an ARP request for all the hosts in the network range and in this case 192.168.33.0/24. Based on the replies, you can see what is alive currently on the network.

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Penetration Testing Bootcamp
Published in: Jun 2017
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781787288744
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