Table of Contents for
Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

Version ebook / Retour

Cover image for bash Cookbook, 2nd Edition Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition by Gerard Johansen Published by Packt Publishing, 2016
  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
  4. Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
  5. Credits
  6. Disclaimer
  7. About the Authors
  8. About the Reviewer
  9. www.PacktPub.com
  10. Preface
  11. What you need for this book
  12. Who this book is for
  13. Conventions
  14. Reader feedback
  15. Customer support
  16. 1. Beginning with Kali Linux
  17. Kali Linux tool categories
  18. Downloading Kali Linux
  19. Using Kali Linux
  20. Configuring the virtual machine
  21. Updating Kali Linux
  22. Network services in Kali Linux
  23. Installing a vulnerable server
  24. Installing additional weapons
  25. Summary
  26. 2. Penetration Testing Methodology
  27. Vulnerability assessment versus penetration testing
  28. Security testing methodologies
  29. General penetration testing framework
  30. Information gathering
  31. The ethics
  32. Summary
  33. 3. Target Scoping
  34. Preparing the test plan
  35. Profiling test boundaries
  36. Defining business objectives
  37. Project management and scheduling
  38. Summary
  39. 4. Information Gathering
  40. Using public resources
  41. Querying the domain registration information
  42. Analyzing the DNS records
  43. Getting network routing information
  44. Utilizing the search engine
  45. Metagoofil
  46. Accessing leaked information
  47. Summary
  48. 5. Target Discovery
  49. Identifying the target machine
  50. OS fingerprinting
  51. Summary
  52. 6. Enumerating Target
  53. Understanding the TCP/IP protocol
  54. Understanding the TCP and UDP message format
  55. The network scanner
  56. Unicornscan
  57. Zenmap
  58. Amap
  59. SMB enumeration
  60. SNMP enumeration
  61. VPN enumeration
  62. Summary
  63. 7. Vulnerability Mapping
  64. Vulnerability taxonomy
  65. Automated vulnerability scanning
  66. Network vulnerability scanning
  67. Web application analysis
  68. Fuzz analysis
  69. Database assessment tools
  70. Summary
  71. 8. Social Engineering
  72. Attack process
  73. Attack methods
  74. Social Engineering Toolkit
  75. Summary
  76. 9. Target Exploitation
  77. Vulnerability and exploit repositories
  78. Advanced exploitation toolkit
  79. MSFConsole
  80. MSFCLI
  81. Ninja 101 drills
  82. Writing exploit modules
  83. Summary
  84. 10. Privilege Escalation
  85. Password attack tools
  86. Network spoofing tools
  87. Network sniffers
  88. Summary
  89. 11. Maintaining Access
  90. Working with tunneling tools
  91. Creating web backdoors
  92. Summary
  93. 12. Wireless Penetration Testing
  94. Wireless network recon
  95. Wireless testing tools
  96. Post cracking
  97. Sniffing wireless traffic
  98. Summary
  99. 13. Kali Nethunter
  100. Installing Kali Nethunter
  101. Nethunter icons
  102. Nethunter tools
  103. Third-party applications
  104. Wireless attacks
  105. HID attacks
  106. Summary
  107. 14. Documentation and Reporting
  108. Types of reports
  109. The executive report
  110. The management report
  111. The technical report
  112. Network penetration testing report (sample contents)
  113. Preparing your presentation
  114. Post-testing procedures
  115. Summary
  116. A. Supplementary Tools
  117. Web application tools
  118. Network tool
  119. Summary
  120. B. Key Resources
  121. Paid incentive programs
  122. Reverse engineering resources
  123. Penetration testing learning resources
  124. Exploit development learning resources
  125. Penetration testing on a vulnerable environment
  126. Online web application challenges
  127. Virtual machines and ISO images
  128. Network ports
  129. Index

Summary

This chapter introduced you to the amazing world of Kali Linux, which is a Live DVD Linux distribution that has been specially developed to help you in the penetration testing process. Kali is the successor of BackTrack, a famous Linux distribution focused on the purpose of penetration testing.

The chapter started with a brief description of Kali Linux's history. Next, it moved on to see what functionalities Kali Linux has to offer. When looking at the vast array of tools in the latest version of Kali Linux, we can see that there is functionality for a wide variety of security tasks. These include digital forensics, wireless security assessments, reverse engineering software, hacking hardware, and penetration testing.

There was also discussion on the variety of ways that Kali Linux can be deployed. There is the ability to deploy Kali Linux using a live DVD or USB, installing it as a virtual machine and finally, using it as the primary operating system on a stand-alone system.

To ensure that penetration testing can be conducted, Kali Linux requires the networking connections be configured. Kali Linux makes use of a wired connection through the computer's ethernet connection or shared connections with the virtual machine host. In addition, Kali Linux can also be configured with a wireless connection using an external antenna. We also discussed how to use several features in the VirtualBox machine to make it easier to work with the virtual machine; for example, installing additional tools, configuring shared folders, exporting the virtual machine for a backup purpose or to share it with other people, and taking a snapshot to back up the virtual machine temporarily.

As with any other software, Kali Linux also needs to be updated, whether we only update the software applications or the Linux kernel included in the distribution.

You may need to test your penetration testing skills; unfortunately, you don't have permission to do this to other servers as it is considered illegal in several countries. To help you with this, there are several intentionally vulnerable systems that can be installed and used on your own machine. In this chapter, we looked into Metasploitable 2 from Rapid7.

We also discussed several network services included with the latest Kali Linux, such as HTTP, MySQL, and SSH. We started by giving you a brief introduction to each service and then we continued with how to manage the service; for example, how to start or stop the service.

At the end of the chapter, we looked at installing additional information security tools that are not included in the latest Kali Linux version by default, such as the Nessus network scanner and Cisco password cracker.

In the next chapter, we will introduce you to several penetration testing methodologies.