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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
Book Image

Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By: Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement. Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Getting network routing information


Network routing information is useful for penetration testers in a number of ways. First, they can identify different devices in between the penetration tester's machine and the target. The penetration tester could also glean information about how the network operates and how traffic is routed between the target and the tester's machine. Finally, the penetration tester would also be able to determine if there was an intermediate barrier such as a firewall or proxy server between the tester and the target.

Kali Linux has a number of tools that provides network routing information.

tcptraceroute

A supplement to the traceroute command found in Linux distributions is the tcptraceroute tool. The normal traceroute command sends either a UDP or ICMP echo request packet to the target house with a Time to Leave (TTL) set to one. This TTL is increased by one for each host it reaches until the packet reaches the target host. The major difference between traceroute and...