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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

By : Dhruv Shah, Ishan Girdhar
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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

By: Dhruv Shah, Ishan Girdhar

Overview of this book

With the increasing threats of breaches and attacks on critical infrastructure, system administrators and architects can use Kali Linux 2.0 to ensure their infrastructure is secure by finding out known vulnerabilities and safeguarding their infrastructure against unknown vulnerabilities. This practical cookbook-style guide contains chapters carefully structured in three phases – information gathering, vulnerability assessment, and penetration testing for the web, and wired and wireless networks. It's an ideal reference guide if you’re looking for a solution to a specific problem or learning how to use a tool. We provide hands-on examples of powerful tools/scripts designed for exploitation. In the final section, we cover various tools you can use during testing, and we help you create in-depth reports to impress management. We provide system engineers with steps to reproduce issues and fix them.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Introduction


In the previous chapter, we enumerated the open ports and searched for possible vulnerabilities. In this chapter, we are going to perform penetration testing of the system over the network. For the purpose of demonstration, we have taken a OS called Stapler, made by g0tmi1k. Stapler can be at https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/stapler-1,150/ .

Along with Stapler, we will also check out exploitation with Metasploitable 2, as briefly covered in the previous chapter. The aim of this chapter is to enlighten the reader about a couple of network-level attack vectors, and to demonstrate different types of attacks. Let's get started with Stapler, a vulnerable OS virtual machine, by loading the image on a virtual machine.