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Kali Linux 2:  Windows Penetration Testing

Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing

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Kali Linux 2:  Windows Penetration Testing

Kali Linux 2: Windows Penetration Testing

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Overview of this book

Microsoft Windows is one of the two most common OS and managing its security has spawned the discipline of IT security. Kali Linux is the premier platform for testing and maintaining Windows security. Kali is built on the Debian distribution of Linux and shares the legendary stability of that OS. This lets you focus on using the network penetration, password cracking, forensics tools and not the OS. This book has the most advanced tools and techniques to reproduce the methods used by sophisticated hackers to make you an expert in Kali Linux penetration testing. First, you are introduced to Kali's top ten tools and other useful reporting tools. Then, you will find your way around your target network and determine known vulnerabilities to be able to exploit a system remotely. Next, you will prove that the vulnerabilities you have found are real and exploitable. You will learn to use tools in seven categories of exploitation tools. Further, you perform web access exploits using tools like websploit and more. Security is only as strong as the weakest link in the chain. Passwords are often that weak link. Thus, you learn about password attacks that can be used in concert with other approaches to break into and own a network. Moreover, you come to terms with network sniffing, which helps you understand which users are using services you can exploit, and IP spoofing, which can be used to poison a system's DNS cache. Once you gain access to a machine or network, maintaining access is important. Thus, you not only learn penetrating in the machine you also learn Windows privilege’s escalations. With easy to follow step-by-step instructions and support images, you will be able to quickly pen test your system and network.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
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Index

Arm yourself with Armitage

Armitage is a GUI front-end for Metasploit and we can use it to run all sorts of attacks on our target Windows users. Since this is a new installation which Metasploit has never been run before, we start with errors and setup. The first illustration is the error raised by postgresql not starting when Armitage tried to bring up the Metasploit service:

Arm yourself with Armitage

Since this is Kali Linux 2.0, we will try and start the postgresql server with the command:

/etc/init.d/postgresql start

After starting postgresql successfully, we started the Metasploit console as well and then started Armitage from a terminal window, so we could watch the standard output while it came up. It took quite a while for the Armitage window to come up, and for a few minutes it looked like the Metasploit service would not let us bring Armitage up.

Arm yourself with Armitage

The first step after it came up was to load the exploits, as shown in the following illustration. You have two choices: Find Attacks and Hail Mary. If you choose...

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