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

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

Identifying the target machine


The tools included in this category are used to identify the target machines that can be accessed by a penetration tester. Before we start the identification process, we need to know our client's terms and agreements. If the agreements require us to hide pen-testing activities, we need to conceal our penetration testing activities. Stealth techniques may also be applied for testing the Intrusion Detection System (IDS) or Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) functionality. If there are no such requirements, we may not need to conceal our penetration testing activities.

ping

The ping tool is the most famous tool that is used to check whether a particular host is available. The ping tool works by sending an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request packet to the target host. If the target host is available and the firewall is not blocking the ICMP echo request packet, it will reply with the ICMP echo reply packet.

Note

The ICMP echo request and ICMP echo...