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Pentesting Industrial Control Systems

By : Paul Smith
Book Image

Pentesting Industrial Control Systems

By: Paul Smith

Overview of this book

The industrial cybersecurity domain has grown significantly in recent years. To completely secure critical infrastructure, red teams must be employed to continuously test and exploit the security integrity of a company's people, processes, and products. This is a unique pentesting book, which takes a different approach by helping you gain hands-on experience with equipment that you’ll come across in the field. This will enable you to understand how industrial equipment interacts and operates within an operational environment. You'll start by getting to grips with the basics of industrial processes, and then see how to create and break the process, along with gathering open-source intel to create a threat landscape for your potential customer. As you advance, you'll find out how to install and utilize offensive techniques used by professional hackers. Throughout the book, you'll explore industrial equipment, port and service discovery, pivoting, and much more, before finally launching attacks against systems in an industrial network. By the end of this penetration testing book, you'll not only understand how to analyze and navigate the intricacies of an industrial control system (ICS), but you'll also have developed essential offensive and defensive skills to proactively protect industrial networks from modern cyberattacks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
1
Section 1 - Getting Started
5
Section 2 - Understanding the Cracks
9
Section 3 - I’m a Pirate, Hear Me Roar
15
Section 4 -Capturing Flags and Turning off Lights

I have a shell, now what?

It's time to go back to our scheduled broadcast. Once we have gained access, watching that shell as it pops up in front of our eyes is exhilarating. However, the hard work has yet to come. Next, we need to understand where we have landed and what we have access to. For this, we are going to explore a post-exploitation framework called Empire. Empire is a C2 framework that's used to install PowerShell agents that can deliver modules on demand. These modules contain a lot of packages that I have come to use over the years, so it is very nice to have them centralized. Empire provides modules such as winPEAS, Sherlock, Watson, PowerUp, mimikatz, and more. These tools help automate data collection on the system and environment that we have landed in and helps us establish a beachhead for our pentesting adventures.

In this section, we are going to quickly install Empire, create a listener, build a stager, and then deliver modules to our host. Let&apos...