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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
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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

Using nmap for manual vulnerability assessment


By now it is evident that plays a very role right from IP discovery. Nmap also has a vulnerability assessment functionality, which is via the Nmap Scripting Engine (NSE). It allows the user to run vulnerability detection scripts. The NSE contains a very large set of scripts that range right from discovery to exploitation. These scripts are available in the nmap folder, and are segregated by their categories. These categories can be better understood by reading the scripts.db file, located in the nmap folder. However, in this chapter we will limit ourselves to vulnerability detection.

Getting ready

In order to begin this chapter, we will be using nmap to check the NSE scripts located in nmap under the scripts folder. For demonstration purposes, we will be using Metasploitable 2 and Windows XP SP1.

How to do it...

The for this recipe are as follows:

  1. We should first see where the NSE scripts are located. Type the following command:
ls /usr/share...
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