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Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By : Wolf Halton, Bo Weaver
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Kali Linux 2018: Windows Penetration Testing - Second Edition

By: Wolf Halton, Bo Weaver

Overview of this book

Microsoft Windows is one of the two most common OSes, and managing its security has spawned the discipline of IT security. Kali Linux is the premier platform for testing and maintaining Windows security. Kali is built on the Debian distribution of Linux and shares the legendary stability of that OS. This lets you focus on using the network penetration, password cracking, and forensics tools, and not the OS. This book has the most advanced tools and techniques to reproduce the methods used by sophisticated hackers to make you an expert in Kali Linux penetration testing. You will start by learning about the various desktop environments that now come with Kali. The book covers network sniffers and analysis tools to uncover the Windows protocols in use on the network. You will see several tools designed to improve your average in password acquisition, from hash cracking, online attacks, offline attacks, and rainbow tables to social engineering. It also demonstrates several use cases for Kali Linux tools like Social Engineering Toolkit, and Metasploit, to exploit Windows vulnerabilities. Finally, you will learn how to gain full system-level access to your compromised system and then maintain that access. By the end of this book, you will be able to quickly pen test your system and network using easy-to-follow instructions and support images.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Using advanced Footprinting

Vulnerability scans only provide some information. When actually attacking the machine, you want to do some deep level probes to check for helpful information leaks. From the scans, we can see a Windows Domain Controller and a Windows File Server, both running Windows 2008 Server. Both have SMB/NetBIOS services running. This looks like the most likely path of attack. SMB/NetBIOS services have known weaknesses. So, let's look closer at these services.

Before we get fully into footprinting, a note about notes. Especially when getting into manual probes, remember to keep notes on your outputs and your findings. Copy/paste is your best friend. Vulnerability scans always produce nice reports, with the data all compiled in one place. Manually probing doesn't, so it's up to you and you will gather a lot of data you'll want later. Use KeepNote...