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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
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Preface

Reverse shell through SSH


The small form factor of the Raspberry Pi makes it an awesome platform for concealed or otherwise inconspicuous deployment inside the customer's environment. Many organizations have security measures in place to block incoming connections with the goal of preventing backdoors into their network. In a white-box assessment, we may be explicitly able to open up a Firewall to permit SSH to our Raspberry Pi, as shown in the following image. The bad news is even if this is possible from a policy standpoint, it may be difficult to achieve when dealing with multiple sites under multiple administrative controls. Either way, breaking through perimeter defenses as step 1 of a penetration test, however, makes a lot of noise and will leave us either frustrated or looking for work. So how do we, out here in the wild, communicate with our Raspberry Pi 3 on the inside?

We can take advantage of the fact that most organizations do not restrict outbound traffic by default on their...