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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

Setting up the lab


In this section, we are going to assemble all the pieces to have our fully operational penetration testing lab.

Step 1 – installing the hypervisor

First, download Oracle VM VirtualBox from its official website: www.virtualbox.org.

Once you've downloaded Oracle VM VirtualBox, complete the installation process and leave all the options as default. Once the installation is successful, you will be presented with the following window:

Note

Another very popular hypervisor is VMware Workstation. However, this product is commercial (paid) unlike Oracle VM VirtualBox (free).

Step 2 – obtaining vulnerable systems

As mentioned, there are many available vulnerable systems that can be found on the internet. We are going to deploy Metasploitable and OWASP Broken Web Applications Project – both of these are virtual machines designed to give students and professionals a real-world, hands-on experience.

Metasploitable 2 is currently available at its official repository at https://information.rapid7...