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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By : Zaid Sabih
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Book Image

Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

5 (1)
By: Zaid Sabih

Overview of this book

This book starts with the basics of ethical hacking, how to practice hacking safely and legally, and how to install and interact with Kali Linux and the Linux terminal. You will explore network hacking, where you will see how to test the security of wired and wireless networks. You’ll also learn how to crack the password for any Wi-Fi network (whether it uses WEP, WPA, or WPA2) and spy on the connected devices. Moving on, you will discover how to gain access to remote computer systems using client-side and server-side attacks. You will also get the hang of post-exploitation techniques, including remotely controlling and interacting with the systems that you compromised. Towards the end of the book, you will be able to pick up web application hacking techniques. You'll see how to discover, exploit, and prevent a number of website vulnerabilities, such as XSS and SQL injections. The attacks covered are practical techniques that work against real systems and are purely for educational purposes. At the end of each section, you will learn how to detect, prevent, and secure systems from these attacks.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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Discovering Vulnerabilities Automatically Using OWASP ZAP

XSS BeEF exploitation

We haven't yet seen a good way of exploiting XSS vulnerabilities; all we have done so far is inject a very simple code that displays an alert on the screen saying that this website is vulnerable. What we are going to do now is something more advanced. We want to control the victims and do stuff on the target computers, on the people that visit the vulnerable pages where we have injected our code. We're going to use the BeEF browser to do this. We had a look at BeEF in previous chapters. What we're going to do here is use the BeEF hook URL and inject it into the stored XSS page so that everybody who visits that page will be hooked to BeEF. Then, we'll be able to run all the commands that BeEF allows us to run on the target computer.

Let's start BeEF. If we look at the online browsers, we have no victims at the moment. So, in order...