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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

By : Glen D. Singh, Sean-Philip Oriyano
Book Image

Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

By: Glen D. Singh, Sean-Philip Oriyano

Overview of this book

Kali NetHunter is a version of the popular and powerful Kali Linux pentesting platform, designed to be installed on mobile devices. Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter will teach you the components of NetHunter and how to install the software. You’ll also learn about the different tools included and how to optimize and use a package, obtain desired results, perform tests, and make your environment more secure. Starting with an introduction to Kali NetHunter, you will delve into different phases of the pentesting process. This book will show you how to build your penetration testing environment and set up your lab. You will gain insight into gathering intellectual data, exploiting vulnerable areas, and gaining control over target systems. As you progress through the book, you will explore the NetHunter tools available for exploiting wired and wireless devices. You will work through new ways to deploy existing tools designed to reduce the chances of detection. In the concluding chapters, you will discover tips and best practices for integrating security hardening into your Android ecosystem. By the end of this book, you will have learned to successfully use a mobile penetration testing device based on Kali NetHunter and Android to accomplish the same tasks you would traditionally, but in a smaller and more mobile form factor.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Hypervisor


Some of us in the field of IT love working with servers, either Windows or Linux. Servers are awesome to work with just as everything else in IT. One of the most important technologies today is virtualization. Virtualization allow you to install almost any type of operating system (OS) on any type of hardware. What does this mean? Some OS, such as Android, Windows Server, Linux Server, and macOS, require specialized hardware, such as a specific type of processor, and if a system does not have the required hardware resources, the OS will not be installed. Virtualization comes in to save the day by using a virtual machine manager known as a hypervisor.

A hypervisor creates and emulates a virtual environment to fit the need for an OS. The hypervisor allows the administrator, such as yourself, to configure the number of cores and threads for the processor, the amount of RAM and hard disk drive allocation, and input/output (I/O) such as USB controllers and serial controllers. Therefore...