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Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi - Second Edition

By : Michael McPhee, Jason Beltrame
Book Image

Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi - Second Edition

By: Michael McPhee, Jason Beltrame

Overview of this book

This book will show you how to utilize the latest credit card sized Raspberry Pi 3 and create a portable, low-cost hacking tool using Kali Linux 2. You’ll begin by installing and tuning Kali Linux 2 on Raspberry Pi 3 and then get started with penetration testing. You will be exposed to various network security scenarios such as wireless security, scanning network packets in order to detect any issues in the network, and capturing sensitive data. You will also learn how to plan and perform various attacks such as man-in-the-middle, password cracking, bypassing SSL encryption, compromising systems using various toolkits, and many more. Finally, you’ll see how to bypass security defenses and avoid detection, turn your Pi 3 into a honeypot, and develop a command and control system to manage a remotely-placed Raspberry Pi 3. By the end of this book you will be able to turn Raspberry Pi 3 into a hacking arsenal to leverage the most popular open source toolkit, Kali Linux 2.0.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi - Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Diving into PwnPi


PwnPi is an extremely mature penetration testing platform for the Raspberry Pi. At the time the first edition was written, many people in the community claimed that it was a more stable environment than Kali Linux, specifically on the Raspberry Pi. However, we believe there is a shift in supporting Kali Linux for the Raspberry Pi rather than PwnPi because of the existing popularity and namesake of Kali Linux. Some people might call us biased, but any serious penetration tester uses Kali on other platforms. That being said, we should certainly be aware of the other options.

The following screenshot is the PwnPi 3.0 introductory image when booting it up:

PwnPi brings some unique features, such as support for over two hundred tools. PwnPi is built on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi and has simple scripts to automatically configure reverse shell connections. You can learn more about PwnPi at http://pwnpi.sourceforge.net/.

Let's look at installing and running PwnPi on...