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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

Overview of this book

It has always been difficult to gain hands-on experience and a comprehensive understanding of advanced penetration testing techniques and vulnerability assessment and management. This book will be your one-stop solution to compromising complex network devices and modern operating systems. This book provides you with advanced penetration testing techniques that will help you exploit databases, web and application servers, switches or routers, Docker, VLAN, VoIP, and VPN. With this book, you will explore exploitation abilities such as offensive PowerShell tools and techniques, CI servers, database exploitation, Active Directory delegation, kernel exploits, cron jobs, VLAN hopping, and Docker breakouts. Moving on, this book will not only walk you through managing vulnerabilities, but will also teach you how to ensure endpoint protection. Toward the end of this book, you will also discover post-exploitation tips, tools, and methodologies to help your organization build an intelligent security system. By the end of this book, you will have mastered the skills and methodologies needed to breach infrastructures and provide complete endpoint protection for your system.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Metasploit and PowerShell for Post-Exploitation

In previous chapters, you learned the power of PowerShell as an attacking platform. It was just the beginning. Now it is time to feel the real power of it as a perfect tool for performing sophisticated attacks, and also, we will discover how to use it side-by-side with the Metasploit Framework.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Metasploit Framework
  • PowerShell essentials
  • PowerShell payload modules
  • Nishang PowerShell for penetration testing and offensive security