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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.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Wireless Attacks – Getting Past Aircrack-ng

Exploiting buffer overflow on real software


You have learned the basics of exploitation earlier. Now let's try these on some of the software already exploited long ago and with public exploits available. In this recipe, you will learn about publicly available exploits for old software and create your own version of the exploit for it.

Before we begin, we will need an old version of a Windows OS (preferably, Windows XP) and a debugger for Windows. I have used Immunity Debugger and an old software with a known buffer overflow vulnerability. We will use Easy RM to MP3 Converter. This version had a buffer overflow vulnerability in playing large M3U files.

Getting ready

The free version of Immunity Debugger can be downloaded at https://www.immunityinc.com/products/debugger/.

How to do it...

Follow the given steps to learn about it:

  1. Next, we download and install our MP3 converter on the machine.
  2. This converter had a vulnerability in playing M3U files. The software crashed when a large file was opened...

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