You're reading from The Ultimate Kali Linux Book Perform advanced penetration testing using Nmap, Metasploit, Aircrack-ng, and Empire

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801818933

Length 742 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Glen D. Singh

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Getting Started with Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

3. Chapter 2: Building a Penetration Testing Lab

4. Chapter 3: Setting Up for Advanced Hacking Techniques

5. Section 2: Reconnaissance and Network Penetration Testing

6. Chapter 4: Reconnaissance and Footprinting

7. Chapter 5: Exploring Active Information Gathering

8. Chapter 6: Performing Vulnerability Assessments

9. Chapter 7: Understanding Network Penetration Testing

10. Chapter 8: Performing Network Penetration Testing

11. Section 3: Red Teaming Techniques

12. Chapter 9: Advanced Network Penetration Testing — Post Exploitation

13. Chapter 10: Working with Active Directory Attacks

14. Chapter 11: Advanced Active Directory Attacks

15. Chapter 12: Delving into Command and Control Tactics

16. Chapter 13: Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing

17. Section 4: Social Engineering and Web Application Attacks

18. Chapter 14: Performing Client-Side Attacks – Social Engineering

19. Chapter 15: Understanding Website Application Security

20. Chapter 16: Advanced Website Penetration Testing

21. Chapter 17: Best Practices for the Real World

22. Other Books You May Enjoy

Deploying Metasploitable 2 as a target system

When building a penetration testing lab, it's important to include vulnerable systems that will act as our targets. These systems contain intentional vulnerable services and applications so that we can practice and build our skills to understand how to discover and exploit vulnerabilities. A very popular vulnerable machine is known as Metasploitable 2. This vulnerable machine contains a lot of vulnerabilities that can be exploited and is good for learning about penetration testing.

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Part 1 – deploying Metasploitable 2

The following steps will help you acquire Metasploitable 2 vulnerable virtual machines so that you can deploy them within the hypervisor:

Go to https://sourceforge.net/projects/metasploitable/files/Metasploitable2/ and download the metasploitable-linux-2.0.0.zip file onto your host system.
Once the ZIP file has been downloaded, extract (unzip) its contents to the location...