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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

Using bulk transfer as phishing to deliver payloads

Attackers can also utilize bulk file transfer software, such as Smash, Hightail, Terashare, WeTransfer, SendSpace, and DropSend. Let’s take a simple scenario: assume we have targeted two people, a finance administrator and a CEO. Attackers can simply send files between these two victims, visiting one of the bulk transfer websites, such as sendspace.com, and upload a malicious file, while setting the sender as [email protected], and [email protected] as the receiver. Once the file is uploaded, both parties will receive the emails with the file link; in this case, [email protected] will receive an email stating that the file was sent successfully, and [email protected] will receive something similar, as shown in Figure 5.39:

Figure 5.39: Sendspace bulk transfer emails

Most of the time, these bulk transfers are not on the blocked list in a corporate environment (if one is blocked, attackers...