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Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing

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Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing

Overview of this book

Microsoft Windows is one of the two most common OS and managing its security has spawned the discipline of IT security. Kali Linux is the premier platform for testing and maintaining Windows security. Kali is built on the Debian distribution of Linux and shares the legendary stability of that OS. This lets you focus on using the network penetration, password cracking, forensics tools and not the OS. This book has the most advanced tools and techniques to reproduce the methods used by sophisticated hackers to make you an expert in Kali Linux penetration testing. First, you are introduced to Kali's top ten tools and other useful reporting tools. Then, you will find your way around your target network and determine known vulnerabilities to be able to exploit a system remotely. Next, you will prove that the vulnerabilities you have found are real and exploitable. You will learn to use tools in seven categories of exploitation tools. Further, you perform web access exploits using tools like websploit and more. Security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. Passwords are often that weak link. Thus, you learn about password attacks that can be used in concert with other approaches to break into and own a network. Moreover, you come to terms with network sniffing, which helps you understand which users are using services you can exploit, and IP spoofing, which can be used to poison a system's DNS cache. Once you gain access to a machine or network, maintaining access is important. Thus, you not only learn penetrating in the machine you also learn Windows privilege’s escalations. With easy to follow step-by-step instructions and support images, you will be able to quickly pen test your system and network.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Using the pivot


Sometimes we need to jump from one network to another, sometimes because of network segregation or perhaps to jump past a firewall. This is called a Pivot. Pivots are different between operating systems, and so the Metasploit modules you need to use might be different. Here, we will pivot from a Windows machine. On a segregated network, the machine we need to attack is the machine that has an interface on both networks. Sometimes this can be found in your network probes, from the leaked system information gleaned from RPC or SNMP probes. Also, sometimes machine names will give away this information. If there is a machine named JumpBox, that is the one you want.

Tip

Hacker Tip

Whenever possible, remove details such as naming your machines Jumpbox-2, Mail-1, HTTP-2003, and other such transparent names. A good naming convention that your administrators know well can help you make a cracker's life more difficult.

Below, we see the layout of our attack. Even if you are not a "visual...