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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
Book Image

Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By: Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement. Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Network spoofing tools


In the previous section, we discussed several tools that can be used to crack passwords. In this section, we will have a look at several tools that can be used for network spoofing to elevate the privilege.

Network spoofing is a process to modify network packets, such as the MAC address and IP address. The goal of this process is to get the data from two communicating parties.

DNSChef

DNSChef (http://thesprawl.org/projects/dnschef/) is a DNS proxy; it can be used to fake a domain request to point to a local machine that belongs to the attacker instead of the real host. With this capability, an attacker can control the victim's network traffic. Before you can use DNSChef, you need to configure the victim machine DNS server to point to your machine containing DNSChef:

  • In Linux, you can modify the /etc/resolv.conf file to point to your machine

  • In Windows, you can configure this in the Network Connections option from the Control Panel

If you don't have the access to modify...