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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition Secure your network with Kali Linux – the ultimate white hat hackers' toolkit

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787120235
Length 510 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Vijay Kumar Velu Vijay Kumar Velu
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Preface 1. Goal-Based Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER 2. Open Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance 3. Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks 4. Vulnerability Assessment 5. Physical Security and Social Engineering 6. Wireless Attacks 7. Reconnaissance and Exploitation of Web-Based Applications 8. Attacking Remote Access 9. Client-Side Exploitation 10. Bypassing Security Controls 11. Exploitation 12. Action on the Objective 13. Privilege Escalation 14. Command and Control

The Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF)

BeEF is an exploitation tool that focuses on a specific client-side application, the web browser. BeEF allows an attacker to inject a JavaScript code into a vulnerable HTML code using an attack such as XSS or SQL injection. This exploit code is known as a hook. A compromise is achieved when the hook is executed by the browser. The browser (zombie) connects back to the BeEF application, which serves JavaScript commands or modules to the browser.

BeEF's modules perform tasks such as the following:

  • Fingerprinting and the reconnaissance of compromised browsers. It can also be used as a platform to assess the presence of exploits and their behavior under different browsers.
Note that BeEF allows us to hook multiple browsers on the same client, as well as multiple clients across a domain, and then manage them during the exploitation and...
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