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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

Chapter 9. Bypassing Security Controls

2018 was an excellent year for most advanced next-generation antivirus and Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) tools due to the various types of security incidents, especially the sophisticated malwares. Having said that, most of the time when testers get root or internal network access, they think they are done with the test, assuming that they have the knowledge and toolset to completely compromise the network or enterprise.

One of the neglected aspects during a penetration test activity is bypassing security controls to assess the target organization's prevention and detection techniques. In all penetration testing activities, penetration testers or attackers need to understand, what renders the exploit ineffective while performing an active attack on the target network /system and bypassing the security controls that are set by the target organization becomes crucial as part of the kill chain methodology. In this chapter, we will review the different...