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Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Hands-On AWS Penetration Testing with Kali Linux Set up a virtual lab and pentest major AWS services, including EC2, S3, Lambda, and CloudFormation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789136722
Length 508 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Benjamin Caudill Benjamin Caudill
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Karl Gilbert Gupta Karl Gilbert Gupta
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Preface 1. Section 1: Kali Linux on AWS FREE CHAPTER
2. Setting Up a Pentesting Lab on AWS 3. Setting Up a Kali PentestBox on the Cloud 4. Exploitation on the Cloud using Kali Linux 5. Section 2: Pentesting AWS Elastic Compute Cloud Configuring and Securing
6. Setting Up Your First EC2 Instances 7. Penetration Testing of EC2 Instances using Kali Linux 8. Elastic Block Stores and Snapshots - Retrieving Deleted Data 9. Section 3: Pentesting AWS Simple Storage Service Configuring and Securing
10. Reconnaissance - Identifying Vulnerable S3 Buckets 11. Exploiting Permissive S3 Buckets for Fun and Profit 12. Section 4: AWS Identity Access Management Configuring and Securing
13. Identity Access Management on AWS 14. Privilege Escalation of AWS Accounts Using Stolen Keys, Boto3, and Pacu 15. Using Boto3 and Pacu to Maintain AWS Persistence 16. Section 5: Penetration Testing on Other AWS Services
17. Security and Pentesting of AWS Lambda 18. Pentesting and Securing AWS RDS 19. Targeting Other Services 20. Section 6: Attacking AWS Logging and Security Services
21. Pentesting CloudTrail 22. GuardDuty 23. Section 7: Leveraging AWS Pentesting Tools for Real-World Attacks
24. Using Scout Suite for AWS Security Auditing 25. Using Pacu for AWS Pentesting 26. Putting it All Together - Real - World AWS Pentesting 27. Other Books You May Enjoy

The importance of permissions enumeration

In any case, whether you can escalate your privileges or not, having a definitive list of what permissions you do have is extremely important. This can save you a lot of time when attacking an environment as you don't need to spend time trying to guess what access you might have, and instead, you can do manual analysis offline to leave a smaller logging footprint. By knowing what access you have, you can avoid the need to run test commands to determine whether you have privileges or not. This is beneficial because API errors, especially access denied errors, can be very noisy, and will likely alert a defender to your activity.

In many cases, you might find that your user does not have enough permissions to be able to enumerate their full list of permissions. In these situations, it is generally recommended to make assumptions based...

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