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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

Introduction to RouterSploit Framework

Similar to the Metasploit Framework, Threat9’s (https://www.threat9.com) RouterSploit Framework is an open-source exploitation framework used to exploit embedded devices (specifically routers). The tool can be installed on Kali by running sudo apt install routersploit from the terminal. The latest version of RouterSploit is 3.4.1, and it comes with 132 known exploits and 4 different scanners, depending on the device type. This entire section can be performed by a mobile device as we know we can install the Kali on any Android phone as described in the Kali on Android (non-rooted phones) section in Chapter 1, Goal-Based Penetration Testing.

The following are the modules of RouterSploit:

  • exploits: A module that contacts all the identified vulnerabilities
  • creds: A module to test for login credentials with predefined usernames and passwords
  • scanners: A module that runs the scanning with the preconfigured list of...