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Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi

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Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Penetration Testing with Raspberry Pi
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Disclaimer
Preface
Index

Phishing with BeEF


The Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF) is another tool that is often categorized under exploit penetration testing, honeypot, and social engineering. BeEF is used to host a malicious web server such as SET. However, BeEF leverages weaknesses found in Internet browsers for its attack. When a victim connects to a BeEF server, BeEF will hook the system and examine how exploitable the victim's web browser is to various attacks. Based on these findings, BeEF will offer a range of command modules that can be launched, such as taking screenshots or triggering a beep sound. Hooked systems can only be accessed while they are online. However, once hooked, BeEF can track when a system establishes Internet connectivity to continue launching commands against that system. You can find more on BeEF at http://beefproject.com/.

Tip

The authors have used BeEF for authorized penetration testing since it doesn't require modifying the endpoint systems to be successful. This means that there...