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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

Scanning


When we want to act on the information we've gathered using the tools both native to and outside of NetHunter, we typically start with a series of scans. To probe the target, we will use a series of tools designed to perform different types of scans, each designed to group the information using certain criteria. These scans will help us locate valid hosts to target, network structures, running services, and vulnerabilities. The scanning process further refines and processes the information we have gained from Chapter 3, Intelligence-gathering Tools, to provide you with a better understanding of the target as well as to help you pick areas to better carry out the enumeration process (more on that in Enumeration with NetHunter section).

Scanning can help us gather the following important information, which will prove useful in later in the exploitation process:

  • IP addresses of systems
  • Open and Closed ports
  • Operating systems and their version
  • WHOIS information
  • Software versions
  • MAC addresses...