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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 7. Windows Privilege Escalation

Privilege escalation is the process of increasing the level of access to a machine or a network. Technically, it could be said that any exploit that gains access to a system is escalating the privileges of the attacker. Coming from no access to User access is escalating the privileges of the attacker, but normally this term is used for exploits gaining either root or SYSTEM access. In Hacker terms, Total Pwnage. This is the ultimate goal of an attacker. Once this level of access is gained, all data and control of the system is now under your control. Stealing data and/or confidential information is now just a matter of copying the data off the system. You now have the rights. In this chapter, we will cover the following:

  • Getting Access with Metasploit

  • Replacing Executables with Malevolent Twins

  • Local Privilege Escalation with a Stand-Alone tool

  • Escalating Privileges with Physical Access

  • Weaseling in with Weevely