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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

This is Sparta!


Sparta is a GUI-based Python tool that is useful for infrastructure pentesting. It helps in scanning and enumeration. We can even import nmap outputs here. Sparta is very easy to use and automates a lot of information gathering and makes the process easier. In this recipe, you will learn how to use the tool to perform various scans on the network.

Getting ready

Kali already has the tool preinstalled, so let's look at how to run it!

How to do it...

To know more about Sparta, follow the given steps:

  1. We start by typing the Sparta command:

We will see the tool open up.

  1. Now we click on the left-hand side of the menu pane to add hosts:
  1. In the window, we enter the IP range we want to scan.
  2. Once we click on Add to scope, it automatically starts the basic process of running nmap, nikto, and so on:
  1. We can see the discovered hosts on the left-hand side pane:
  1. On the right-hand side, in the Services tab, we will see the open ports and the services they are running:
  1. Switching to the Nikto tab, we...