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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

By : Glen D. Singh, Sean-Philip Oriyano
Book Image

Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

By: Glen D. Singh, Sean-Philip Oriyano

Overview of this book

Kali NetHunter is a version of the popular and powerful Kali Linux pentesting platform, designed to be installed on mobile devices. Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter will teach you the components of NetHunter and how to install the software. You’ll also learn about the different tools included and how to optimize and use a package, obtain desired results, perform tests, and make your environment more secure. Starting with an introduction to Kali NetHunter, you will delve into different phases of the pentesting process. This book will show you how to build your penetration testing environment and set up your lab. You will gain insight into gathering intellectual data, exploiting vulnerable areas, and gaining control over target systems. As you progress through the book, you will explore the NetHunter tools available for exploiting wired and wireless devices. You will work through new ways to deploy existing tools designed to reduce the chances of detection. In the concluding chapters, you will discover tips and best practices for integrating security hardening into your Android ecosystem. By the end of this book, you will have learned to successfully use a mobile penetration testing device based on Kali NetHunter and Android to accomplish the same tasks you would traditionally, but in a smaller and more mobile form factor.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Penetrating the Target

So far, we have gathered information through some detective work, scanned a target to learn about where the live targets are and what they have left open, before trying to extract more detailed information through enumeration. During this process, we learned quite a bit, but we still have further to go as we learn more about both the process and how Kali NetHunter can assist us. We are now moving into the step where we actually put the penetration in penetration test by attempting to gain access to the target itself. Everything up to this point has allowed us to plan, learn, and prepare to make a successful attempt at entry.

Our goal is to gain access to a host and, if we have played our cards right so far, the information we have accumulated will help us. When we gain access to a system, there are a seemingly endless number of ways to accomplish this, but we will limit our focus to a handful of these and show how Kali Nethunter may be helpful in carrying...