This chapter shows you how to do some things that in many situations might be illegal, unethical, a violation of terms of service, or just not a good idea. It is provided here to give you information you can use to protect yourself against threats and make your own system more secure. Before following these instructions, be sure you are on the right side of the legal and ethical line... use your powers for good!
In this chapter, we will be covering how to conduct a security audit based on client-side attacks, how to make the backdoor server run on the attacker machine, and create a payload and listener.
We will also learn how an attacker can attack using e-mails on large enterprise networks. The topics covered in this chapter are as follows:
Creating a payload and a listener
Understanding the mass mailer attack
SMS spoofing attack vector