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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

By : Jason Beltrame
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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

By: Jason Beltrame

Overview of this book

Penetration Testing Bootcamp delivers practical, learning modules in manageable chunks. Each chapter is delivered in a day, and each day builds your competency in Penetration Testing. This book will begin by taking you through the basics and show you how to set up and maintain the C&C Server. You will also understand how to scan for vulnerabilities and Metasploit, learn how to setup connectivity to a C&C server and maintain that connectivity for your intelligence gathering as well as offsite processing. Using TCPDump filters, you will gain understanding of the sniffing and spoofing traffic. This book will also teach you the importance of clearing up the tracks you leave behind after the penetration test and will show you how to build a report from all the data obtained from the penetration test. In totality, this book will equip you with instructions through rigorous tasks, practical callouts, and assignments to reinforce your understanding of penetration testing.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Checking for a DNS BIND version


Being able to see which version of BIND a DNS server is running will give you some potentially great information. A lot of DNS servers out there are designed to not give up that information or reveal some generic information about its setup. But there are still a lot of BIND instances running out there that may reveal the exact version of BIND they are running. Using the version you glean from the following command, you can cross-reference that version against any known exploits, and if there are some, you now have a potential way in.

In the following example, I was able to grab the BIND server information from a publicly available DNS server. I have changed the name to protect the innocent:

root@pi-kali:~# host -c chaos -t txt version.bind DNS1.XXXX.NET
Using domain server:
Name: DNS1.XXXX.NET
Address: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX#53
Aliases:
version.bind descriptive text "9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-16.P1.1.2012012401"