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Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi - Second Edition

By : Michael McPhee, Jason Beltrame
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Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi - Second Edition

By: Michael McPhee, Jason Beltrame

Overview of this book

This book will show you how to utilize the latest credit card sized Raspberry Pi 3 and create a portable, low-cost hacking tool using Kali Linux 2. You’ll begin by installing and tuning Kali Linux 2 on Raspberry Pi 3 and then get started with penetration testing. You will be exposed to various network security scenarios such as wireless security, scanning network packets in order to detect any issues in the network, and capturing sensitive data. You will also learn how to plan and perform various attacks such as man-in-the-middle, password cracking, bypassing SSL encryption, compromising systems using various toolkits, and many more. Finally, you’ll see how to bypass security defenses and avoid detection, turn your Pi 3 into a honeypot, and develop a command and control system to manage a remotely-placed Raspberry Pi 3. By the end of this book you will be able to turn Raspberry Pi 3 into a hacking arsenal to leverage the most popular open source toolkit, Kali Linux 2.0.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Chapter 2.  Preparing for Battle

Despite the massive improvements the Raspberry Pi 3 makes over its predecessors, it should still be considered an underpowered platform for security assessments. That being said, it is designed as a low-cost, ultra-portable computer primarily targeting educators and hobbyists. That gives it an advantage in covert, on-site penetration testing and other discreet engagements. Our focus for this chapter will be on how to prepare a Raspberry Pi (or other platforms) running Kali Linux for the management access and connectivity it will need during all phases of a penetration test.

We'll cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Using a Command and Control server

  • Preparing for a penetration test

  • Setting up the SSH service

  • SSH default keys and management

  • Reverse shell through SSH

  • Using stunnel and other tunneling protocols

  • Setting up Remote GUI Access

  • Overclocking

  • Setting up the wireless interface

  • Setting up the Bluetooth interface

  • Setting up a 3G USB modem

  • Wrapping up with...