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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

Vulnerability scanners for mobile applications

Penetration testers often ignore mobile applications in app stores (Apple, Google, and others); however, these applications also serve as a network entry point. In this section, we will run through how quickly one can set up a mobile application scanner and how one can combine the results from this mobile application scanner and utilize the information to identify more vulnerabilities and achieve the goal of the penetration test.

Mobile Security Framework (MobSF) is an open-source, automated penetration testing framework for all the mobile platforms, including Android, iOS, and Windows. The entire framework is written in the Django Python framework.

This framework can be directly downloaded from https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF, or it can be cloned in Kali Linux by issuing the git clone https://github.com/MobSF/Mobile-Security-Framework-MobSF command.

Once the framework is cloned, use the following...