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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

Intercepting SSL traffic with SSLsplit

SSLsplit is similar to sslstrip; in this, you can intercept the SSL traffic to glean credentials and other information that you would want to stay confidential. However, the one major difference is that SSLsplit utilizes a certificate that I generate to the end user. This way, the connection will still stay SSL on the end user, unlike sslstrip, which will get back to the end user as a HTTP connection. The one caveat that will have to happen is that the certificate you create will need to be put in the user's trusted certificate store so that the user will not see the untrusted cert message.

The first thing I have to do is create a certificate. The important thing here is to create a certificate for the site in which I want to intercept.

It is not mandatory that you create a certificate that matches the site that you want to intercept...
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