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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

By : Dhruv Shah, Ishan Girdhar
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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

By: Dhruv Shah, Ishan Girdhar

Overview of this book

With the increasing threats of breaches and attacks on critical infrastructure, system administrators and architects can use Kali Linux 2.0 to ensure their infrastructure is secure by finding out known vulnerabilities and safeguarding their infrastructure against unknown vulnerabilities. This practical cookbook-style guide contains chapters carefully structured in three phases – information gathering, vulnerability assessment, and penetration testing for the web, and wired and wireless networks. It's an ideal reference guide if you’re looking for a solution to a specific problem or learning how to use a tool. We provide hands-on examples of powerful tools/scripts designed for exploitation. In the final section, we cover various tools you can use during testing, and we help you create in-depth reports to impress management. We provide system engineers with steps to reproduce issues and fix them.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 5. Web Application Information Gathering

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Setting up API keys for recon-ng
  • Using recon-ng for reconnaissance
  • Gathering information using theharvester
  • Using DNS protocol for information gathering
  • Web application firewall detection
  • HTTP and DNS load balancer detection
  • Discovering hidden files/directories using DirBuster
  • CMS and plugins detection using WhatWeb and p0f
  • Finding SSL cipher vulnerabilities