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Penetration Testing with the Bash shell

Penetration Testing with the Bash shell

By : Keith Harald Esrick Makan
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Penetration Testing with the Bash shell

Penetration Testing with the Bash shell

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By: Keith Harald Esrick Makan
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Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Penetration Testing with the Bash shell
Credits
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Credits
Disclaimer
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Disclaimer
About the Author
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About the Author
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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www.PacktPub.com
Preface
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Preface
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Getting to Know Bash
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Getting to Know Bash
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Getting help from the man pages
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Navigating and searching the filesystem
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Using I/O redirection
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Using pipes
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Getting to know grep
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Summary
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Further reading
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Customizing Your Shell
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Customizing Your Shell
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Formatting the terminal output
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The prompt string
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Aliases
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Customizing the command history
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Customizing tab completion
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Summary
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Further reading
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Network Reconnaissance
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Network Reconnaissance
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Interrogating the Whois servers
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Interrogating the DNS servers
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Enumerating targets on the local network
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Summary
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Further reading
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Exploitation and Reverse Engineering
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Exploitation and Reverse Engineering
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Using the Metasploit command-line interface
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Preparing payloads with Metasploit
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Creating and deploying a payload
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Disassembling binaries
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Debugging binaries for dynamic analysis
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Summary
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Further reading
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Network Exploitation and Monitoring
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Network Exploitation and Monitoring
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MAC and ARP abuse
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Man-in-the-middle attacks
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Interrogating servers
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Brute-forcing authentication
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Traffic filtering with TCPDump
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Assessing SSL implementation security
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Automated web application security assessment
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Summary
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Further reading
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Index
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Index

Chapter 2. Customizing Your Shell

Almost every aspect of your bash terminal is customizable. Now that you've learned to make use of some of the important information processing utilities, we can move on to learning how to use them to customize your shell. A lot of what we will cover in this chapter involves grabbing information from one program, piping it into another program, and filtering out whatever details are important to us.

You will also learn something about bash scripting, which is what a large chunks of the applications in your Kali Linux—and the larger Linux family—are made of.

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