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Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By : Kevin Cardwell
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Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By: Kevin Cardwell

Overview of this book

Security flaws and new hacking techniques emerge overnight – security professionals need to make sure they always have a way to keep . With this practical guide, learn how to build your own virtual pentesting lab environments to practice and develop your security skills. Create challenging environments to test your abilities, and overcome them with proven processes and methodologies used by global penetration testing teams. Get to grips with the techniques needed to build complete virtual machines perfect for pentest training. Construct and attack layered architectures, and plan specific attacks based on the platforms you’re going up against. Find new vulnerabilities for different kinds of systems and networks, and what these mean for your clients. Driven by a proven penetration testing methodology that has trained thousands of testers, Building Virtual Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition will prepare you for participation in professional security teams.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Building Virtual Pentesting Labs for Advanced Penetration Testing - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Readers' challenge


Throughout this chapter, we identified a number of considerations when we perform client-side penetration testing; as we have mentioned throughout the chapter, we have barely scratched the surface on this:

  1. Review the information encoding of our payloads, attempt a number of different techniques, and see if you can improve on reducing the number of products that detected your code. Once you have done this, research the latest information on bypassing antivirus software, and see if any of these can improve your evasion. Finally, research the Veil framework at https://www.veil-framework.com and experiment with the different methods that are contained there to see if you can achieve a better score than that of the encoding methods in Metasploit.

  2. For this second challenge, explore the methods that we use in the chapter for the PowerShell scripting, and explore the latest information contained at http://www.powershellempire.com and experiment with the different methods of the...