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Network Vulnerability Assessment

By : Sagar Rahalkar
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Network Vulnerability Assessment

By: Sagar Rahalkar

Overview of this book

The tech world has been taken over by digitization to a very large extent, and so it’s become extremely important for an organization to actively design security mechanisms for their network infrastructures. Analyzing vulnerabilities can be one of the best ways to secure your network infrastructure. Network Vulnerability Assessment starts with network security assessment concepts, workflows, and architectures. Then, you will use open source tools to perform both active and passive network scanning. As you make your way through the chapters, you will use these scanning results to analyze and design a threat model for network security. In the concluding chapters, you will dig deeper into concepts such as IP network analysis, Microsoft Services, and mail services. You will also get to grips with various security best practices, which will help you build your network security mechanism. By the end of this book, you will be in a position to build a security framework fit for an organization.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Creating backdoors using Backdoor Factory

A quick look at the dictionary meaning of the word backdoor gives us achieved by using indirect or dishonest means. In the computing world, backdoors are something which are hidden and are used to get covert entry into the system. For example, if we get a plain executable file from some unknown person, we may get suspicious. However, if we get a genuine-looking installer then we might execute it. However, that installer might have a hidden backdoor which may open up our system to the attacker.

Creating a backdoor typically involves patching a genuine looking executable with our shellcode. Kali Linux has a special tool backdoor-factory which helps us create backdoors. The backdoor-factory can be launched from the Terminal as shown in the following image:

We now execute the command as shown in the following image:

root@kali:~# backdoor...