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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

Using Nmap


Nmap (Network Mapper) is like the king of all network scanners. Nmap has may functionalities, such as enabling a penetration tester to scan for open ports, determine services and their versions, detect the target operating systems and versions, and detect network sniffers and vulnerabilities.

NetHunter gives us several options to perform a scan, but here we will focus on arguably the most powerful and well-known one, called nmap. Nmap has proven to be a very popular port-scanning utility across most major operating systems due to its flexibility, power, ease of use, and extensibility. Many penetration testers, as well as network admins, have come to rely on the software application over the years. If you have never used it before, you may find yourself relying on it more after our usage of it here in NetHunter.

Note

NetHunter comes preinstalled with nmap, like all of the tools covered in this book. I recommend for this section that you open up nmap from either the command line or...