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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

Investigating PwnBerry Pi


PwnBerry Pi (https://github.com/g13net/PwnBerryPi) is advertised as another penetration testing suite for Raspberry Pi and is based on Raspberry Pwn as discussed earlier. Much like Raspberry Pwn, Pwnberry Pi has not been recently updated, which seems to indicate that for penetration testing the field is consolidating around Kali Linux.

It should also be noted that best practice is not to use many of the tools required for web-based penetration testing from a lower-end system such as a Raspberry Pi. For example, PwnBerry Pi includes the installation file for Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF), rather than installing it knowing most penetration testers wouldn't run this application from an ARM image. If you install BeEF on this ARM image, you will see a warning banner added by the PwnBerry Pi development team claiming they experienced erratic behavior when using BeEF from the PwnBerry Pi image.

The installation process of PwnBerry Pi is very similar to the Raspberry...