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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

Python network analysis


A Python script with the right modules can be a mature and powerful network technician. Python has a place in every layer of abstraction you can think of. Do you need just a quick and dirty service to be the frontend for some task, like downloading files? Python has your back. Do you need to get nitty-gritty with low-level protocols, scripting out specific packet manipulation activities nested in conditional logic, chatting with the network at layer 3 and even down to the data-link layer? Python makes this fun and easy. The best part is the portability of any project you can imagine; as I mentioned, you will be functioning on a team as a pen tester and there are few situations in which you will function all alone. Even if you are on a project where you're working like a lone wolf, white hats are there to inform the client and there are no trade secrets or magician's code, so you may be asked to lay out in understandable terms how the bad guys can get away with your...