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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
About the Reviewers
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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

Open-source information gathering


In this recipe, we will look at how to make of tools meant for online information gathering. We will cover tools that serve the purpose of gathering information with respect to Whois, domain tools, and MX mail servers. Shodan is a powerful search engine that locates drives for us over the Internet. With the help of various filters, we can find information about our targets. Among hackers, it is also called the world's most dangerous search engine.

Getting ready

We will make use of tools such as DNsenum for the purpose of Whois enumeration, find out all the IP addresses involved in a domain, and also how Shodan provides us with open-port information of the target searched.

How to do it...

The steps are as follows:

  1. For DNS scan, we will a tool called DNsenum. Let us start by typing the following in terminal:
dnsenum <domainname>

The output will be as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. We can also use the available to search for more subdomains via...
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