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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783982165

Length 512 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (2):

Dhruv Shah

Ishan Girdhar

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

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

Sniffing network traffic

In this recipe, we are going to understand basics of using a wireless adaptor to sniff wireless data packets; to do so we will have to change the wireless card to Monitor mode. For sniffing we will be using the airodump-ng command from the aircrack-ng suite.

Getting ready

We will be using the card for this exercise; ensure that the wireless adaptor is connected as in the earlier recipe and we can start sniffing traffic.

How to do it...

If the wireless device is not turned on, turn it on using the following command:

      ifconfig wlan0 up

Put the card into monitor mode using the following command:

      airmon-ng start wlan0

The output will be as shown in the following screenshot:

Now that we have a monitor interface on we will issue:

      airodump-ng wlan0mon

The will be as shown in the following screenshot:

We can capture a particular ESSID as well; all we have to do is mention a specific channel and write to a file; in this case we are writing into a file...

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Authors (2)

Ishan Girdhar

Ishan Girdhar

Ishan Girdhar is a senior pentester and DevSecOps engineer. With over 7 years of work experience, he has been vigorously involved in building application security and bug bounty programs, in his current and previous roles, helping businesses and organizations to be more secure ad aware. He is currently working with Southeast Asia's biggest ride-hailing platform, Grab. Previously, he has worked with organizations such as InMobi and one of

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Dhruv Shah

Dhruv Shah

Dhruv Shah holds a Masters degree in IT and has 7 years of experience as a specialist in Information Security. He started off as a trainer sensitizing staff in private sector organizations about security issues and what hackers look for when they launch attacks on networks. He, later on, switched his job to carry out penetration testing for Indian government agencies and then for banking clients in the Middle East. He now has extensive experience in penetration testing for Fortune 500 companies involving web and mobile applications, networks, Infra, and Red Team work. In his spare time, he co-authored the book Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation and is an active member and moderator of one of the Null chapters in India.

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