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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

MAC spoofing


As we have learned, spoofing is simply tricking the target into believing traffic or a request is originating from another device or a trusted source. Both IP and MAC addresses can be spoofed quite easily since the TCP/IP protocol suite was not designed for modern-day security threats.

Note

To prevent MAC address spoofing within a network, network security professionals can implement Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI) on Cisco IOS Switches.

To generate and assign a random MAC address to an interface, we must do the following:

  1. Logically turn down the interface using the ifconfig wlan0 down command:
  1. Verify the current and permanent MAC addresses on the specified interface using the macchanger –-show wlan0 command:
  1. Use the macchanger --random wlan0 command to generate and assign the MAC to our wlan0 interface:
  1. Re-enable the interface using the ifconfig wlan0 up command:

Note

Additionally, you can use the macchanger –-help command to view all the options available.

You will obtain the following...