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AWS Penetration Testing

AWS Penetration Testing: Beginner's guide to hacking AWS with tools such as Kali Linux, Metasploit, and Nmap

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AWS Penetration Testing

Chapter 1: Building Your AWS Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a growing cloud technology provider that many companies use to help house their data. Originating from Seattle, Washington in late 2006, AWS is steadily becoming the most prominent service provider. Due to its usability and its user-friendly interfaces, AWS is used by over 800,000 companies and makes up 65% or more of the cloud infrastructure space. Some of its better-known services, such as S3, Lambda, and EC2 will be frequently talked about through this book and are services that are commonly used in the real world.

This chapter is going to go over the basics of AWS and will walk through setting up an AWS account. It's important that we learn the basics of getting our AWS account configured and ready so that there isn't any additional housekeeping needed after setting up an account. After setting up an account, we'll walk through and set up a few EC2 instances with various flavors of operating systems, and look at vulnerable services within those operating systems. It's encouraged that, after completing the chapter, you look at building out more EC2 instances with other operating systems for your environment.

In this chapter, we'll explore AWS through the following topics:

  • Exploring Amazon Web Services
  • Understanding the testing environment
  • Configuring the environment
  • Exploring vulnerable services
  • Attacking vulnerabilities
  • The AWS Command Line Interface

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Check out the following video to see the Code in Action: https://bit.ly/3kPrVkh

Exploring Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS is a cloud service provided by Seattle tech company, Amazon. AWS's comprehensive and easy-to-use setup makes it very attractive to small start-ups and large corporations. It works by allowing companies and businesses to set up their infrastructure off-premises and within the physical resources of Amazon. This type of service, called Infrastructure as a Service, delivers cloud computing as a whole service. You will see more of how easy it is to automate and build in AWS as we set up our lab throughout this book. However, you'll also notice some issues that may commonly be overlooked, such as security.

AWS doesn't take full responsibility for companies' data and security. In fact, Amazon has put out a shared responsibility model that ensures that both parties understand their rights and responsibilities in terms of customers' data. After all, Amazon is a company that is known as customer-obsessed.

AWS security and penetration testing

As you read through this book, you'll be exposed to some different concepts that may not have been discussed before. The reason for this is due to AWS pentesting being a relatively new subject that is gaining popularity in the security space of information technology. The good thing about this is it allows subject matter experts to lend a hand in helping to create a pentesting culture around AWS and provides newer ideas for how penetration testing is executed in both AWS and system security.

Next, you're going to dive into AWS and create an account of your very own. After that, we'll get started by creating our own cloud pentest playground where we will set up a vulnerable host that can be tested later on.

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Cloud security has always been treated as the highest priority by AWS while designing a robust cloud infrastructure. AWS has now extended its support to allow users and security experts to perform penetration tests on its environment. This has not only revealed a number of loopholes and brought vulnerable points in their existing system to the fore, but has also opened up opportunities for organizations to build a secure cloud environment. This book teaches you how to perform penetration tests in a controlled AWS environment. You'll begin by performing security assessments of major AWS resources such as Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3, Amazon API Gateway, and AWS Lambda. Throughout the course of this book, you'll also learn about specific tests such as exploiting applications, testing permissions flaws, and discovering weak policies. Moving on, you'll discover how to establish private-cloud access through backdoor Lambda functions. As you advance, you'll explore the no-go areas where users can’t make changes due to vendor restrictions and find out how you can avoid being flagged to AWS in these cases. Finally, this book will take you through tips and tricks for securing your cloud environment in a professional way. By the end of this penetration testing book, you'll have become well-versed in a variety of ethical hacking techniques for securing your AWS environment against modern cyber threats.

Who is this book for?

If you are a network engineer, system administrator, or system operator looking to secure your AWS environment against external cyberattacks, then this book is for you. Ethical hackers, penetration testers, and security consultants who want to enhance their cloud security skills will also find this book useful. No prior experience in penetration testing is required; however, some understanding of cloud computing or AWS cloud is recommended.

What you will learn

  • Set up your AWS account and get well-versed in various pentesting services
  • Delve into a variety of cloud pentesting tools and methodologies
  • Discover how to exploit vulnerabilities in both AWS and applications
  • Understand the legality of pentesting and learn how to stay in scope
  • Explore cloud pentesting best practices, tips, and tricks
  • Become competent at using tools such as Kali Linux, Metasploit, and Nmap
  • Get to grips with post-exploitation procedures and find out how to write pentesting reports
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Table of Contents

16 Chapters
Section 1: Setting Up AWS and Pentesting Environments Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Building Your AWS Environment Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Pentesting and Ethical Hacking Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 2: Pentesting the Cloud – Exploiting AWS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Exploring Pentesting and AWS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Exploiting S3 Buckets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Understanding Vulnerable RDS Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Setting Up and Pentesting AWS Aurora RDS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Assessing and Pentesting Lambda Services Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Assessing AWS API Gateway Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Real-Life Pentesting with Metasploit and More! Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Section 3: Lessons Learned – Report Writing, Staying within Scope, and Continued Learning Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Pentesting Best Practices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Staying Out of Trouble Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Other Projects with AWS Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Great AWS pentesting resource.
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This is an awesome book to break into AWS pen testing.
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Raymond D. Espinoza Jan 16, 2021
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I love that the book is easy to follow to jump in and start testing. Jon does a great job of spelling out the approach of what you should think about, look for and then how to implement testing. As a person with blue-team roots who now is on the leadership side of security, this has made it easy to jump in and start testing on my own. I highly recommend this book to any security practitioner looking to gain knowledge in pentesting AWS environments.
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I expected more techniques in cloud environments
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George Jan 06, 2021
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This book is basically network pentesting with AWS resources, nothing very relevant to pentesting actual AWS environments
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