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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

By : Glen D. Singh, Sean-Philip Oriyano
Book Image

Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

By: Glen D. Singh, Sean-Philip Oriyano

Overview of this book

Kali NetHunter is a version of the popular and powerful Kali Linux pentesting platform, designed to be installed on mobile devices. Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter will teach you the components of NetHunter and how to install the software. You’ll also learn about the different tools included and how to optimize and use a package, obtain desired results, perform tests, and make your environment more secure. Starting with an introduction to Kali NetHunter, you will delve into different phases of the pentesting process. This book will show you how to build your penetration testing environment and set up your lab. You will gain insight into gathering intellectual data, exploiting vulnerable areas, and gaining control over target systems. As you progress through the book, you will explore the NetHunter tools available for exploiting wired and wireless devices. You will work through new ways to deploy existing tools designed to reduce the chances of detection. In the concluding chapters, you will discover tips and best practices for integrating security hardening into your Android ecosystem. By the end of this book, you will have learned to successfully use a mobile penetration testing device based on Kali NetHunter and Android to accomplish the same tasks you would traditionally, but in a smaller and more mobile form factor.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Objectives of intelligence gathering


Before you can effectively deploy any tools used to break into a system or otherwise compromise it, you must learn whatever information you can about it. Depending on the amount of care you take and depth you need to go into, this process can take a short period of time or a considerable period of time. To accelerate this process, NetHunter provides a full range of tools designed just for this purpose.

Since we don't have a specific target in mind for this book, we will explore a range of tools designed to gather different types of information. We will assume that there is a good amount of information to be gathered about the target and we must simply deploy the right tools to get it. Keep in mind that, in the real world, you may be approached to perform a pentest using one of three popular approaches based on the client's needs. With this in mind, let's go over the three popular approaches to a pentest based on the amount of information that is provided...