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Learn Kali Linux 2019

By : Glen D. Singh
Book Image

Learn Kali Linux 2019

By: Glen D. Singh

Overview of this book

The current rise in hacking and security breaches makes it more important than ever to effectively pentest your environment, ensuring endpoint protection. This book will take you through the latest version of Kali Linux and help you use various tools and techniques to efficiently deal with crucial security aspects. Through real-world examples, you’ll understand how to set up a lab and later explore core penetration testing concepts. Throughout the course of this book, you’ll get up to speed with gathering sensitive information and even discover different vulnerability assessment tools bundled in Kali Linux 2019. In later chapters, you’ll gain insights into concepts such as social engineering, attacking wireless networks, exploitation of web applications and remote access connections to further build on your pentesting skills. You’ll also focus on techniques such as bypassing controls, attacking the end user and maintaining persistence access through social media. Finally, this pentesting book covers best practices for performing complex penetration testing techniques in a highly secured environment. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to use Kali Linux to detect vulnerabilities and secure your system by applying penetration testing techniques of varying complexity.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Section 1: Kali Linux Basics
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Section 2: Reconnaissance
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Section 3: Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing with Kali Linux 2019

WPAD protocol attacks

Within a corporate network, system administrators usually allow employees to access the internet through a proxy server. The proxy server usually improves performance and security, and monitors web traffic entering and leaving the corporate network. WPAD is a technique that is used on client machines to discover the URL of a configuration file via DHCP discovery methods. Once a client machine discovers a file, it is downloaded on the client machine and executed. The script will determine the proxy for the client.

In this exercise, we are going to use Responder on Kali Linux to capture a victim's user credentials. Before we begin, the following topology will be used in this exercise:

Using the following steps, we will be able to easily exploit WPAD in a Windows environment:

The lab configurations are the same as those in the previous section.
  1. Ensure...