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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

Maintaining access


Persistent connections, in the hacker world, are called Phoning Home. Persistence gives the attacker the ability to leave a connection back to the attacking machine and have a full command line or desktop connection to the victim machine.

Why do this? Your network is normally protected by a firewall and the port connections to the internal machines are controlled by the firewall and not by the local machine. Sure, if you're in a box you could turn on telnet and you could access the telnet port from the local network. It is unlikely that you would be able to get to this port from the public network. Any local firewall may block this port, and a network scan would reveal that telnet is running on the victim machine. This would alert the target organization's Network Security team. So instead of having a port to call on the compromised server, it is safer and more effective to have your victim machine call out to your attacking machine.

In this chapter, we will use HTTPS reverse...