You're reading from The Ultimate Kali Linux Book Perform advanced penetration testing using Nmap, Metasploit, Aircrack-ng, and Empire

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801818933

Length 742 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Glen D. Singh

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

3. Chapter 2: Building a Penetration Testing Lab

4. Chapter 3: Setting Up for Advanced Hacking Techniques

5. Section 2: Reconnaissance and Network Penetration Testing

6. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance and Footprinting

7. Chapter 5: Exploring Active Information Gathering

8. Chapter 6: Performing Vulnerability Assessments

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Network Penetration Testing

10. Chapter 8: Performing Network Penetration Testing

11. Section 3: Red Teaming Techniques

12. Chapter 9: Advanced Network Penetration Testing — Post Exploitation

13. Chapter 10: Working with Active Directory Attacks

14. Chapter 11: Advanced Active Directory Attacks

15. Chapter 12: Delving into Command and Control Tactics

16. Chapter 13: Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing

17. Section 4: Social Engineering and Web Application Attacks

18. Chapter 14: Performing Client-Side Attacks – Social Engineering

19. Chapter 15: Understanding Website Application Security

20. Chapter 16: Advanced Website Penetration Testing

21. Chapter 17: Best Practices for the Real World

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Identifying and exploiting vulnerable services

In this section, you will learn how to use various techniques and tools within Kali Linux. These will help you efficiently identify and exploit security vulnerabilities found on both Windows and Linux-based operating systems that have vulnerable applications and network services running on them.

Exploiting a vulnerable service on a Linux system

In this exercise, you will learn how to discover and exploit a low-hanging fruit within a Linux-based system on a network. The low-hanging fruits are the easier applications/systems to compromise. In this section, you will learn how to exploit a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) service running on a target Linux device.

To get started with this exercise, please use the following instructions:

Power on both the Kali Linux and Metasploitable 2 virtual machines. Metasploitable 2 is a Linux-based system, which makes it perfect for this hands-on lab.
Use the following Nmap command to...