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Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Michael Hixon, Justin Hutchens
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Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Michael Hixon, Justin Hutchens

Overview of this book

With the ever-increasing amount of data flowing in today’s world, information security has become vital to any application. This is where Kali Linux comes in. Kali Linux focuses mainly on security auditing and penetration testing. This step-by-step cookbook on network scanning trains you in important scanning concepts based on version 2016.2. It will enable you to conquer any network environment through a range of network scanning techniques and will also equip you to script your very own tools. Starting with the fundamentals of installing and managing Kali Linux, this book will help you map your target with a wide range of network scanning tasks, including discovery, port scanning, fingerprinting, and more. You will learn how to utilize the arsenal of tools available in Kali Linux to conquer any network environment. The book offers expanded coverage of the popular Burp Suite and has new and updated scripts for automating scanning and target exploitation. You will also be shown how to identify remote services, how to assess security risks, and how various attacks are performed. You will cover the latest features of Kali Linux 2016.2, which includes the enhanced Sparta tool and many other exciting updates. This immersive guide will also encourage the creation of personally scripted tools and the skills required to create them.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Enumerating DNS using the dnsenum command

Similar to dnsrecon, dnsenum is a tool used for enumerating DNS information. The dnsenum script is a multithreaded Perl script written by Filip Waeytens for conducting DNS reconnaissance. It can be used to enumerate DNS information of a domain in order to find non-contiguous IP blocks. It not only helps discover non-contiguous IP blocks, but also provides several other types of information, such as the A record of the host's address, threaded nameservers, threaded MX record, and threaded bind version.

Getting ready

The dnsenum script comes preinstalled on Kali Linux. If you are using a different Linux/Unix distribution, it can be downloaded and installed from https://github.com/fwaeytens/dnsenum.

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