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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Overview of this book

It has always been difficult to gain hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of advanced penetration testing techniques and vulnerability assessment and management. This book will be your one-stop solution to compromising complex network devices and modern operating systems. This book provides you with advanced penetration testing techniques that will help you exploit databases, web and application servers, switches or routers, Docker, VLAN, VoIP, and VPN. With this book, you will explore exploitation abilities such as offensive PowerShell tools and techniques, CI servers, database exploitation, Active Directory delegation, kernel exploits, cron jobs, VLAN hopping, and Docker breakouts. Moving on, this book will not only walk you through managing vulnerabilities, but will also teach you how to ensure endpoint protection. Toward the end of this book, you will also discover post-exploitation tips, tools, and methodologies to help your organization build an intelligent security system. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills and methodologies needed to breach infrastructures and provide complete endpoint protection for your system.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Services enumeration

Services enumeration is the operation of extracting information about the running services from a target, in order to explore an attack vector which would compromise the systems, such as machines' hostnames, network services, service settings, and details about SNMP and DNS. The following subsections discuss, in detail, how to enumerate and exploit two different networking services: SNMP and DNS.

Insecure SNMP configuration

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol that manages network devices; it runs on the UDP. Every network device contains an SNMP agent that connects with an independent SNMP manager. This protocol uses two authenticating passwords: the first is a public key to...