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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs
Book Image

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 (21 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Working with Ghost Phisher


Similar to Fluxion, Kali has a built-in application to perform Wi-Fi phishing activities in a GUI fashion. Ghost Phisher is built to identify wireless connections and has Ethernet security auditing in mind. It is completely written in Python and Python QT for the GUI library.

To harvest the user's credentials, attackers can utilize the Ghost Phisher application to launch a fake AP, as shown in the following screenshot:

GhostPhisher currently provides the following features, all of which can be utilized by penetration testers or attackers:

  • Creating an HTTP server
  • DNS server
  • DHCP server
  • Credential logging page (for phishing any username and password)
  • Access point emulator
  • Advanced session hijacking module
  • Ghost Phisher provides the option to perform ARP cache poisoning to perform MiTM and DoS attacks, similar to ettercap/bettercap
  • Allows attackers to embed Metasploit binding techniques
  • A SQLite database as credential storage