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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

Injection attacks with sqlmap


The sqlmap tool is an open source tool built in Python, which allows the detection and exploitation of SQL injection attacks. It has full support for MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, IBM Db2, SQLite, Firebird, Sybase, SAP MaxDB, HSQLDB, and Informix databases. In this recipe, we will cover how to use sqlmap to test and exploit SQL injection.

How to do it...

The following are the steps to use sqlmap:

  1. We first take a look at the help of sqlmap for a better understanding of its features. This can be done using the following command:
        sqlmap -h

The following screenshot shows the output for the preceding command: 

  1. To scan a URL, we use the following command:
        sqlmap -u "http://testphp.vulnweb.com/artists.php?artist=1"
  1. Once a SQL has been detected, we can choose yes (Y) to skip other types of payloads:
  1. Once SQL has been detected, we can list the database names using the --dbs flag:
  1. We have the databases now; similarly, we can...