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Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing

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Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing

Overview of this book

Microsoft Windows is one of the two most common OS and managing its security has spawned the discipline of IT security. Kali Linux is the premier platform for testing and maintaining Windows security. Kali is built on the Debian distribution of Linux and shares the legendary stability of that OS. This lets you focus on using the network penetration, password cracking, forensics tools and not the OS. This book has the most advanced tools and techniques to reproduce the methods used by sophisticated hackers to make you an expert in Kali Linux penetration testing. First, you are introduced to Kali's top ten tools and other useful reporting tools. Then, you will find your way around your target network and determine known vulnerabilities to be able to exploit a system remotely. Next, you will prove that the vulnerabilities you have found are real and exploitable. You will learn to use tools in seven categories of exploitation tools. Further, you perform web access exploits using tools like websploit and more. Security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. Passwords are often that weak link. Thus, you learn about password attacks that can be used in concert with other approaches to break into and own a network. Moreover, you come to terms with network sniffing, which helps you understand which users are using services you can exploit, and IP spoofing, which can be used to poison a system's DNS cache. Once you gain access to a machine or network, maintaining access is important. Thus, you not only learn penetrating in the machine you also learn Windows privilege’s escalations. With easy to follow step-by-step instructions and support images, you will be able to quickly pen test your system and network.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 10. Forensics

In this chapter we're going CSI. Well, not the CSI you see on CSI—Cyber. This is the real deal. There may come a time in your Sysadmin career when you may have to deliver data that must maintain a Chain of Evidence. The Chain of Evidence is a documented and auditable list of how, why, and by whom evidence was handled, stored, and examined. Kali is your friend when it comes to this duty. You'll also find that some of the techniques we will use can also be handy in day to day data retrieval, copying disk images, and scanning your own systems for data that should not be where it is – or maybe isn't where you expected it to be. Doing pen testing, we have seen a lot of companies fail their compliance assessments because credit card and personal data is found in the wrong place. It's amazing where employees will rat-hole files on the network. We will explore Guymager first, and then dive into Autopsy:

  • Getting into Digital Forensics

  • Exploring Guymager

  • Diving into Autopsy