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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

Exploiting WSDLs with Wsdler


Web Services Description Language (WSDL) is an XML-based language used to describe the functionality offered by a web service. Often while executing a pentest project, we may find a WSDL file out in the open, unauthenticated. In this recipe, we will look at how we can benefit from WSDL.

How to do it...

We intercept the request of WSDL in Burp:

  1. Right-click on the request and select Parse WSDL:
  1. Switch to the Wsdler tab, and we will see all the service calls. We can see the complete request by clicking on any one of them:
  1. To be able to play around with it, we will need to send it to the Repeater:
  1. We right-click and select Send to Repeater:
  1. In our case, we can see that putting a single quote throws up an error. And voila! We have an SQL injection possibility!

The following screenshot shows the SQL injection:

You will learn more about exploiting SQL in the later chapters of the book.