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BackTrack 5 Cookbook

By : Willie L. Pritchett, David De Smet
Book Image

BackTrack 5 Cookbook

By: Willie L. Pritchett, David De Smet

Overview of this book

<p>BackTrack is a Linux-based penetration testing arsenal that aids security professionals in the ability to perform assessments in a purely native environment dedicated to hacking. BackTrack is a distribution based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution aimed at digital forensics and penetration testing use. It is named after backtracking, a search algorithm.<br /><br />"BackTrack 5 Cookbook" provides you with practical recipes featuring many popular tools that cover the basics of a penetration test: information gathering, vulnerability identification, exploitation, priviledge escalation, and covering your tracks.<br /><br />The book begins by covering the installation of BackTrack 5 and setting up a virtual environment to perform your tests.<br /><br />We then dip into recipes involving the basic principles of a penetration test such as information gathering, vulnerability identification, and exploitation. You will further learn about privilege escalation, radio network analysis, Voice over IP, Password cracking, and BackTrack forensics.<br /><br />"BackTrack 5 Cookbook" will serve as an excellent source of information for the security professional and novice alike.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
BackTrack 5 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Mapping the network


With the information gained from the earlier recipes, we can now proceed to create the blueprint of the organization's network. In this final recipe of the chapter, we will see how to visually compile and organize the information obtained using Maltego CaseFile.

CaseFile, as stated on the developer's website, is like Maltego without transforms but with tons of features. Most of the features will be demonstrated in the How to do it… section of this recipe.

How to do it...

Let's begin the recipe by launching CaseFile:

  1. Launch CaseFile by clicking on Applications | BackTrack | Reporting Tools | Evidence Management | casefile.

  2. To create a new graph, click on New in the CaseFile's application menu:

  3. Just as with Maltego, we drag-and-drop each entity from the component Palette into the graph document. Let's start by dragging the Domain entity and changing the Domain Name property:

  4. To add a note, hover your mouse pointer over the entity and double-click on the note icon:

  5. Let's drag...