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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

Advanced Ettercap – the man-in-the-middle Swiss Army Knife


In the previous chapter, we fooled around with ARP poisoning in Ettercap. I'm like every other normal person: I love a good ARP spoof. However, it's infamously noisyIt just screams, HEY! I'M A BAD GUY, SEND ME ALL THE DATA! Did you fire up Wireshark during the attack? Even Wireshark knows that something is wrong and warns the analyst "duplicate use detected!" It's the nature of the beast when we're convincing the network to send everything to a single interface – what is called unified sniffing.

Now, we're going to take man-in-the-middle to the next level with bridged sniffing, which is bridging together two interfaces on our Kali box and conducting our operations between the two interfaces. Those interfaces are local to us and bridged together, all on the fly, by Ettercap; in other words, a user won't see anything amiss. We aren't telling the network to do anything funky. If we can place ourselves in a privileged position between...