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Learn Penetration Testing

By : Rishalin Pillay
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Learn Penetration Testing

By: Rishalin Pillay

Overview of this book

Sending information via the internet is not entirely private, as evidenced by the rise in hacking, malware attacks, and security threats. With the help of this book, you'll learn crucial penetration testing techniques to help you evaluate enterprise defenses. You'll start by understanding each stage of pentesting and deploying target virtual machines, including Linux and Windows. Next, the book will guide you through performing intermediate penetration testing in a controlled environment. With the help of practical use cases, you'll also be able to implement your learning in real-world scenarios. By studying everything from setting up your lab, information gathering and password attacks, through to social engineering and post exploitation, you'll be able to successfully overcome security threats. The book will even help you leverage the best tools, such as Kali Linux, Metasploit, Burp Suite, and other open source pentesting tools to perform these techniques. Toward the later chapters, you'll focus on best practices to quickly resolve security threats. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed with various penetration testing techniques so as to be able to tackle security threats effectively
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Free Chapter
1
Section 1: The Basics
4
Section 2: Exploitation
12
Section 3: Post Exploitation
16
Section 4: Putting It All Together

Antivirus Evasion

The concept of having antivirus software is nothing new. It is a common security control that's used to protect users against malware and other types of malicious software. Historically, it has been focused purely on the prevention of virus infections. In your penetration testing engagements, finding a customer who doesn't have an antivirus is extremely rare to almost impossible.

In this chapter, you will learn about the evolution of antivirus technologies and how they are becoming more sophisticated. You will learn about various techniques that you can leverage for antivirus evasion, and also learn about the tools that can help you utilize those techniques. You will learn how to encode payloads to avoid detection and, finally, explore the online tools that can be used to check the detection rate of your payload.

As you progress through this chapter...