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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs
Book Image

Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By: Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs

Overview of this book

This book takes you, as a tester or security practitioner, through the reconnaissance, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation activities used by pentesters. To start with, you'll use a laboratory environment to validate tools and techniques, along with an application that supports a collaborative approach for pentesting. You'll then progress to passive reconnaissance with open source intelligence and active reconnaissance of the external and internal infrastructure. You'll also focus on how to select, use, customize, and interpret the results from different vulnerability scanners, followed by examining specific routes to the target, which include bypassing physical security and the exfiltration of data using a variety of techniques. You'll discover concepts such as social engineering, attacking wireless networks, web services, and embedded devices. Once you are confident with these topics, you'll learn the practical aspects of attacking user client systems by backdooring with fileless techniques, followed by focusing on the most vulnerable part of the network – directly attacking the end user. By the end of this book, you'll have explored approaches for carrying out advanced pentesting in tightly secured environments, understood pentesting and hacking techniques employed on embedded peripheral devices.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we have examined different tasks that are required to perform a successful attack against any wireless network, wireless adapter configuration, and also how to configure the wireless modem and reconnaissance of APs using tools such as aircrack-ng and Kismet. In this chapter, we also learned about the complete suite of aircrack-ng tools that are used to identify hidden networks, bypass MAC authentication, compromise WPA/WPA2, and WPA enterprise. We also saw how to we can utilize the existing automated tool Wifite to perform a quick capture of handshake and crack passwords offline or with a good dictionary with the use of multiple options. Then, we took a deep dive into setting up a FakeAP using Fluxion and Ghost Phisher, and performed a DoS attack against the wireless networks.

In the next chapter, we will focus on how to assess a website using a methodology that's specific to this type of access, thereby conducting the reconnaissance and scanning that's necessary...