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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

Summary


In this chapter, we discovered ways of maintaining our access to the target systems once we've established ourselves on the network. This gives us more time to gather information and potentially deepen the compromise. We learned that modern threats are persistent, and so having these techniques in our repertoire as pen testers increases the value of the assessment to the client. We generated msfvenom payloads while explaining how to use more sophisticated payloads with these persistence tools. After exploring the persistence capabilities of both Metasploit and PowerShell Empire, we looked at quick and easy persistent backdoor building with netcat and meterpreter. Finally, we demonstrated the persistence module of the PowerSploit framework by taking a script and embedding it in code that persists the payload on the target.