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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By : Himanshu Sharma
Book Image

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By: Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

With the current rate of hacking, it is very important to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2016.2) according to your needs, and move on to core functionalities. This book will start with the installation and configuration of Kali Linux so that you can perform your tests. You will learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp, and Jexboss. You will also learn how to perform network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. Next, you will perform wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Lastly, you will learn how to create an optimum quality pentest report! By the end of this book, you will know how to conduct advanced penetration testing thanks to the book’s crisp and task-oriented recipes.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
6
Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

Decoding ADS-B messages with Dump1090


 ADS-B stands for Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast. It is a system in which electronic equipment onboard an aircraft automatically broadcasts the precise location of the aircraft via a digital data link.

As described in the official readme of the tool, Dump1090 is a Mode S decoder specifically designed for RTLSDR devices.

The main features are:

  • Robust decoding of weak messages. With mode1090, many users observed improved range compared to other popular decoders.
  • Network support—TCP30003 stream (MSG5), raw packets, HTTP.
  • Embedded HTTP server that displays the currently detected aircrafts on Google Maps.
  • Single-bit error correction using 24-bit CRC.
  • Ability to decode DF11 and DF17 messages.
  • Ability to decode DF formats such as DF0, DF4, DF5, DF16, DF20, and DF21, where the checksum is XOR-ed with the ICAO address by brute-forcing the checksum field using ICAO addresses, which we've covered.
  • Decode raw IQ samples from file (using the --ifile command-line...