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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 deep dive into a systematic process for overcoming security controls set by organizations as part of their internal protection. We focused on different types of NAC bypass mechanisms, how to establish a connection to the external world using tunneling and bypassing the firewalls, and also learned about every level of network, application, and operating system controls to ensure that our exploits can successfully reach the target system. Additionally, we reviewed how to bypass antivirus detection through PowerShell obfuscation using PyFuscation and explored the Veil-Evasion and Shellter frameworks to make file-based exploits. We also saw how different Windows operating system security controls such as UAC, application whitelisting, and other Active Directory-specific controls put in place can be easily circumvented using the Metasploit framework.

In the next chapter, we will examine various means of exploiting systems, including public exploits...