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Hands-On Penetration Testing on Windows

By : Phil Bramwell
Book Image

Hands-On Penetration Testing on Windows

By: Phil Bramwell

Overview of this book

Windows has always been the go-to platform for users around the globe to perform administration and ad hoc tasks, in settings that range from small offices to global enterprises, and this massive footprint makes securing Windows a unique challenge. This book will enable you to distinguish yourself to your clients. In this book, you'll learn advanced techniques to attack Windows environments from the indispensable toolkit that is Kali Linux. We'll work through core network hacking concepts and advanced Windows exploitation techniques, such as stack and heap overflows, precision heap spraying, and kernel exploitation, using coding principles that allow you to leverage powerful Python scripts and shellcode. We'll wrap up with post-exploitation strategies that enable you to go deeper and keep your access. Finally, we'll introduce kernel hacking fundamentals and fuzzing testing, so you can discover vulnerabilities and write custom exploits. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed in identifying vulnerabilities within the Windows OS and developing the desired solutions for them.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Questions


  1. What does apd in hostapd stand for?
  2. How can you quickly tell if your wireless card doesn't support access point mode?
  3. What does the hostapd configuration parameter ignore_broadcast_ssid do?
  4. 255.255.255.255 is the broadcast address of the ____________.
  5. You're running an ARP poisoning attack. You know the target and gateway IP addresses, so you immediately fire up arpspoof. Suddenly, communication between the target and the gateway is broken. What happened?
  6. What do the first three octets and the last three octets of the MAC address represent, respectively? 
  7. The MSS and the MTU are the same size. (True | False)
  8. What does the -j flag do in iptables?
  9. You have defined the IP and TCP layers of a specially crafted packet as IP and TCP respectively. You want Scapy to send the packet and save the reply as REPLY. What's the command?