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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

Command methodology and TTPs

As an attack route supporting the cyber kill chain methodology, social engineering focuses on the different aspects of an attack that take advantage of a person’s trust and innate helpfulness, to deceive and manipulate them into compromising a network and its resources.

Figure 5.1 depicts the different types of attack methods that attackers can engage in to harvest information and/or gain access.

Figure 5.1: Different types of social engineering tactics

From the previous editions of this book, we have now reclassified social engineering tactics into two main categories: one that involves technology, and another that includes people-specific techniques. The following sections will provide a briefing on the two categories; later on, we will explore computer-based attacks, especially physical attacks and email phishing using Kali Linux.

Technology

As technology has evolved from traditional PCs to laptops and mobile phones,...