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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

By : Jason Beltrame

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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

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By: Jason Beltrame

Overview of this book

Penetration Testing Bootcamp delivers practical, learning modules in manageable chunks. Each chapter is delivered in a day, and each day builds your competency in Penetration Testing. This book will begin by taking you through the basics and show you how to set up and maintain the C&C Server. You will also understand how to scan for vulnerabilities and Metasploit, learn how to setup connectivity to a C&C server and maintain that connectivity for your intelligence gathering as well as offsite processing. Using TCPDump filters, you will gain understanding of the sniffing and spoofing traffic. This book will also teach you the importance of clearing up the tracks you leave behind after the penetration test and will show you how to build a report from all the data obtained from the penetration test. In totality, this book will equip you with instructions through rigorous tasks, practical callouts, and assignments to reinforce your understanding of penetration testing.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Planning and Preparation

Planning and Preparation

Why does penetration testing take place?

Defining objectives with stakeholder questionnaires

Building the systems for the penetration test

Summary

Information Gathering

Information Gathering

Understanding the current environment

Where to look for information – checking out the toolbox!

Utilizing whois for information gathering

Enumerating DNS with dnsmap

Checking for a DNS BIND version

Probing the network with Nmap

Checking for DNS recursion with NSE

Fingerprinting systems with P0f

Firewall reconnaissance with Firewalk

Detecting a web application firewall

Protocol fuzzing with DotDotPwn

Using Netdiscover to find undocumented IPs

Enumerating your findings

Summary

Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server

Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server

Command and control servers

Setting up secure connectivity

Automating evidence collection

Summary

Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit

Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit

Vulnerability scanning tools

Scanning techniques

OpenVAS

Getting started with OpenVAS

Performing scans against the environment

Getting started with Metasploit

Exploiting our targets with Metasploit

Understanding client-side attacks

Using BeEF for browser-based exploitation

Using SET for client-side exploitation

Summary

Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing

Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing

Traffic sniffing tools and techniques

Understanding spoofing attacks

Ettercap

Intercepting SSL traffic with SSLsplit

Summary

Password-based Attacks

Password-based Attacks

Generating rainbow tables and wordlists

Cracking utilities

Social engineering experiments

Summary

Attacks on the Network Infrastructure

Attacks on the Network Infrastructure

attacks

Wireless-based attacks

Monitoring the airway with Kismet

Attacking WEP with wifite

Bluetooth probing

Physical security considerations

Summary

Web Application Attacks

Web Application Attacks

Manipulation by client-side testing

Infrastructure and design weaknesses

Identity-based testing

Cleaning Up and Getting Out

Cleaning Up and Getting Out

Cleaning up any trails left behind

Summary

Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Gathering all your data

Building the report

Delivering the report

Summary

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Summary

Now that we have reached the end of Day 6, let's recap what we talked about. This chapter was all about password- based attacks. I started the chapter off by talking about rainbow tables and wordlists. I discussed some of the utilities that I used in the lab, such as RainbowCrack and Crunch, to generate my own wordlist and rainbow tables. I also discussed some other ways to get these resources online as well. After getting those lists created, I discussed a couple of cracking utilities that I use in my tests. These utilities included John the Ripper, THC-Hydra, Medusa, and finally Ncrack-all great utilities that make password cracking easy.

Finally, I finished off the chapter by talking about social engineering experiments that are probably the easiest way to crack a password, that is, letting the user give it to you themselves.

In the next chapter, I will talk about...

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