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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By : Himanshu Sharma
Book Image

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By: Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

With the current rate of hacking, it is very important to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2016.2) according to your needs, and move on to core functionalities. This book will start with the installation and configuration of Kali Linux so that you can perform your tests. You will learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp, and Jexboss. You will also learn how to perform network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. Next, you will perform wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Lastly, you will learn how to create an optimum quality pentest report! By the end of this book, you will know how to conduct advanced penetration testing thanks to the book’s crisp and task-oriented recipes.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
6
Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

Searching for open directories


In the previous recipe, we discussed how to find open ports on a network IP or domain name. We often see developers running web servers on different ports. Sometimes developers may also leave directories misconfigured that may contain juicy information for us. We have already covered dirsearch in the previous chapter; here we will look at alternatives.

The dirb tool

The dirb tool is a well-known tool that can be used to brute force open directories. Although it is generally slow and does not support multi-threading, it is still a great way to find directories/subdirectories that may have been left open due to a misconfiguration.

How to do it...

Type the following command to fire up the tool:

dirb https://domain.com

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

There's more...

There are other options in dirb, as well, that come in handy:

  • -a: to specify a user agent
  • -c: to specify a cookie
  • -H: to enter a custom header
  • -X: to specify the file extension...