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Hands-On Penetration Testing on Windows

By : Phil Bramwell
Book Image

Hands-On Penetration Testing on Windows

By: Phil Bramwell

Overview of this book

Windows has always been the go-to platform for users around the globe to perform administration and ad hoc tasks, in settings that range from small offices to global enterprises, and this massive footprint makes securing Windows a unique challenge. This book will enable you to distinguish yourself to your clients. In this book, you'll learn advanced techniques to attack Windows environments from the indispensable toolkit that is Kali Linux. We'll work through core network hacking concepts and advanced Windows exploitation techniques, such as stack and heap overflows, precision heap spraying, and kernel exploitation, using coding principles that allow you to leverage powerful Python scripts and shellcode. We'll wrap up with post-exploitation strategies that enable you to go deeper and keep your access. Finally, we'll introduce kernel hacking fundamentals and fuzzing testing, so you can discover vulnerabilities and write custom exploits. By the end of this book, you'll be well-versed in identifying vulnerabilities within the Windows OS and developing the desired solutions for them.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Getting better – spoofing with BetterCAP


Any good pen tester has a variety of tools at his or her disposal. Often, there are different tools that are comparable to each other in functionality, but one does something better than the other and vice versa. A common pain point for the pen tester is the wonderfully powerful tool that is no longer supported, so you make do with what was last updated a decade ago. Hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it – some attacks, like ARP spoofing, don't change over the years at their core. However, any bugs that were present are there for life. Ettercap has proven itself to security practitioners, and we've seen its power here, but I'm going to wrap up the sniffing and spoofing discussion with the new kid on the block (relatively speaking): BetterCAP.

First, we can grab BetterCAP on Kali very easily as it's in the repository:

# apt-get install bettercap

Fire up bettercap -h for an introduction to this tool's abilities. If I simply run bettercap, I see it gets...