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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

By : Himanshu Sharma
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Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

Kali Linux - An Ethical Hacker's Cookbook

3.8 (20)
By: Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

With the current rate of hacking, it is very important to pentest your environment in order to ensure advanced-level security. This book is packed with practical recipes that will quickly get you started with Kali Linux (version 2016.2) according to your needs, and move on to core functionalities. This book will start with the installation and configuration of Kali Linux so that you can perform your tests. You will learn how to plan attack strategies and perform web application exploitation using tools such as Burp, and Jexboss. You will also learn how to perform network exploitation using Metasploit, Sparta, and Wireshark. Next, you will perform wireless and password attacks using tools such as Patator, John the Ripper, and airoscript-ng. Lastly, you will learn how to create an optimum quality pentest report! By the end of this book, you will know how to conduct advanced penetration testing thanks to the book’s crisp and task-oriented recipes.
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6
Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

Identifying different types of hash in the wild!


Hashes are generated by one-way mathematical algorithms, which means they cannot be reversed. The only way to break is to brute force them. In this recipe, you will learn how to identify some of the different types of hashes.

How to do it...

Following are the types of hashes.

MD5

This is the most common type of hash. MD stands for Message Digest algorithm. These hashes can be identified using the following observation:

  • They are hexadecimal
  • They are 32 characters in length and of 128 bits, for example, 21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3

MySQL less than v4.1

We may come across such hashes while extracting data from SQL Injection. These hashes can be identified using the following observation:

  • They are hexadecimal as well
  • They are 16 characters in length of and 64 bits, for example, 606727496645bcba

MD5 (WordPress)

This is used on websites made via WordPress. These hashes can be identified using the following observation:

  • They begin with $P$
  • They contain alphanumeric...

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