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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

Using Intruder


Intruder is a great tool which allows us to perform different types of attacks that can be used to find all kinds of vulnerabilities. Some of the most common attacks that can be performed with Intruder are as follows:

  • Bruteforce
  • Fuzzing
  • Enumeration
  • Application layer DoS

How to do it...

We start off picking up a request from our captured requests:

  1. Right-click on the request and select Send to Intruder:
  1. Switch to the Intruder tab. We need to specify a payload position, and we can do that by selecting the place we want or selecting the payload and clicking on the Add § button:
  1. In our case, since we are performing a login brute force, we will use the attack type Pitchfork:
  1. Next, we switch to the Payloads tab. This is where we will enter our payloads:
  1. We choose set 1, and as we are bruteforcing, we can choose a simple list as the Payload type.
  2. In the Payload options, we specify the list of words we want the app to be tested against. We can either enter them manually, or we can choose a pre...