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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

Summary

In this chapter, we took a quick tour of different types of cloud services and attacks against those services. We took a deep dive into AWS-specific security misconfigurations, particularly the exploitation of remote web application vulnerabilities through the logs from the load balancer, and took advantage of a misconfigured S3 bucket to gain access to internal EC2 instances. Further, we exploited the privileges of the instance in gaining the database credentials and also explored metadata service header injection attacks. We learned how to create a backdoor user in an AWS environment through an SSRF attack. We then examined some of the useful command-line functions that can be utilized in AWS penetration testing.

In the next chapter, we will focus more on how to bypass Network Access Control (NAC) and antivirus software, User Account Control (UAC), and Windows operating system controls. We will also explore toolsets such as the Veil Framework and Shellter.