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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

Starting off with target discovery


After we have gathered information about our target network from third-party sources, such as search engines, the next step is to discover our target machines. The purpose of this process is as follows:

  • To find out which machine in the target network is available. If the target machine is not available, we won't continue the penetration testing process on that machine and will move to the next machine.

  • To find the underlying operating system used by the target machine.

Collecting the previously mentioned information will help us during the vulnerabilities mapping process.

We can utilize the tools provided in Kali Linux for the target discovery process. Some of these tools are available in the Information Gathering menu. Others will have to be utilized from the command line. For each of these, the commands are provided.

In this chapter, we will only describe a few important tools in each category. The tools are selected based on the functionality, popularity...