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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

By : Jason Beltrame
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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

By: Jason Beltrame

Overview of this book

Penetration Testing Bootcamp delivers practical, learning modules in manageable chunks. Each chapter is delivered in a day, and each day builds your competency in Penetration Testing. This book will begin by taking you through the basics and show you how to set up and maintain the C&C Server. You will also understand how to scan for vulnerabilities and Metasploit, learn how to setup connectivity to a C&C server and maintain that connectivity for your intelligence gathering as well as offsite processing. Using TCPDump filters, you will gain understanding of the sniffing and spoofing traffic. This book will also teach you the importance of clearing up the tracks you leave behind after the penetration test and will show you how to build a report from all the data obtained from the penetration test. In totality, this book will equip you with instructions through rigorous tasks, practical callouts, and assignments to reinforce your understanding of penetration testing.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Setting up secure connectivity


It is not only important to ensure that there is connectivity from the local on-premises box to the C&C server; however, it should also be secure. You don't want to give someone the ability to sniff the traffic and get information that they shouldn't have. This not only makes you look bad as a penetration tester, but could also cause serious issues for the company you are running the penetration test for.

Your job as a penetration tester is to find weaknesses in the environment. So having these being clearly seen in as they pass over the wire is like forgetting to close your safe, where you have all of your most important and valuable items.

For my penetration-testing requirements, I will use a reverse SSH tunnel within a stunnel instance. I will show you the steps to set up this secure communication from the C&C server side to the on-premises box, which in my case is the Raspberry Pi. First, we will start inside in with the reverse SSH setup, followed...