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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

Setting up a spoofing attack with Ettercap


Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) spoofing is maybe the most common MITM attack out there. It is based on the fact that the Address Resolution Protocol—the one that translates IP addresses to MAC addresses—does not verify the authenticity of the responses that a system receives. This means that, when Alice's computer asks all devices in the network, "what is the MAC address of the machine with IP xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx", it will believe the answer it gets from any device, be it the desired server or not so ARP spoofing or ARP poisoning works by sending lots of ARP responses to both ends of the communications chain, telling each one that the attacker's MAC address corresponds to the IP address of their counterpart.

In this recipe, we will use Ettercap to perform an ARP spoofing attack and set ourselves between a client and a web server.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will use the client virtual machine we configured in Chapter 1, Setting Up Kali Linux and...

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