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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

Node hopping – pivoting


Once we are in one system on the network, we need to now look for other machines on the network. Information gathering is the same as what we learned in the previous chapters. We can start by installing and using nmap to look for other hosts and the application or services running. In this recipe, you will learn about a few tricks to get access to the port in the network.

How to do it...

Let's assume we have shell access to a machine. We run ipconfig and find that the machine is connected to two other networks internally:

Now we nmap scan the network and find some machines with a couple of ports open. You learned about a cool way of pivoting into the networks so that we can access the applications running behind other network on our machine.

We will do a ssh port forward using the following command:

ssh –L <our port> <remote ip> <remote port> username@IP

Once this is done, we open the browser and go to the port number we used:

We will have access to the...

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