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Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

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  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

Metagoofil

Metagoogil is a tool that utilizes the Google search engine to get metadata from the documents available in the target domain. Currently, it supports the following document types:

  • Word document (.docx, .doc)
  • Spreadsheet document (.xlsx, .xls, .ods)
  • Presentation file (.pptx, .ppt, .odp)
  • PDF file (.pdf)

Metagoogil works by performing the following actions:

  • Searching for all of the preceding file types in the target domain using the Google search engine
  • Downloading all of the documents found and saving them to the local disk
  • Extracting the metadata from the downloaded documents
  • Saving the result in an HTML file

The metadata that can be found are as follows:

  • Usernames
  • Software versions
  • Server or machine names

This information can be used later on to help in the penetration testing phase. Metagoofil is not part of the standard Kali Linux v 2.0 distribution. To install, all you need to do is use the apt-get command:

# apt-get install metagoofil

After the installer package has finished, you can access Metagoofil from the command line:

# metagoofil

This will display a simple usage instruction and example on your screen. As an example of Metagoofil usage, we will collect all the DOC and PDF documents (-t, .doc, .pdf) from a target domain (-d hackthissite.org) and save them to a directory named test (-o test). We limit the search for each file type to 20 files (-l 20) and only download five files (-n 5). The report generated will be saved to test.html (-f test.html). We use the following command:

# metagoofil -d example.com -l 20 -t doc,pdf –n 5 -f test.html -o test

The redacted result of this command is as follows:

[-] Starting online search...

[-] Searching for doc files, with a limit of 20
  Searching 100 results...
Results: 5 files found
Starting to download 5 of them:
----------------------------------------

[1/5] /webhp?hl=en [x] Error downloading /webhp?hl=en
[2/5] /intl/en/ads [x] Error downloading /intl/en/ads
[3/5] /services [x] Error downloading /services
[4/5] /intl/en/policies/privacy/
[5/5] /intl/en/policies/terms/

[-] Searching for pdf files, with a limit of 20
  Searching 100 results...
Results: 25 files found
Starting to download 5 of them:
----------------------------------------

[1/5] /webhp?hl=en [x] Error downloading /webhp?hl=en
[2/5] https://mirror.hackthissite.org/hackthiszine/hackthiszine3.pdf
[3/5] https://mirror.hackthissite.org/hackthiszine/hackthiszine12_print.pdf
[4/5] https://mirror.hackthissite.org/hackthiszine/hackthiszine12.pdf
[5/5] https://mirror.hackthissite.org/hackthiszine/hackthiszine4.pdf
processing

[+] List of users found:
--------------------------
emadison

[+] List of software found:
-----------------------------
Adobe PDF Library 7.0
Adobe InDesign CS2 (4.0)
Acrobat Distiller 8.0.0 (Windows)
PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2

[+] List of paths and servers found:
---------------------------------------

[+] List of e-mails found:
----------------------------
whooka@gmail.com
htsdevs@gmail.com
never@guess
narc@narc.net
kfiralfia@hotmail.com
user@localhost
user@remotehost.
user@remotehost.com
security@lists.
recipient@provider.com
subscribe@lists.hackbloc.org
staff@hackbloc.org
johndoe@yahoo.com
staff@hackbloc.org
johndoe@yahoo.com
subscribe@lists.hackbloc.org
htsdevs@gmail.com
hackbloc@gmail.com
webmaster@www.ndcp.edu.phpass
webmaster@www.ndcp.edu.phwebmaster@www.ndcp.edu.ph
[webmaster@ndcp
[root@ndcp
D[root@ndcp
window...[root@ndcp
.[root@ndcp
goods[root@ndcp
liberation_asusual@ya-
pjames_e@yahoo.com.au

You can see from the preceding result that we get a lot of information from the documents we have collected, such as the usernames and path information. We can use the obtained usernames to look for patterns in the usernames and for launching a brute force password attack on the usernames. But, be aware that doing a brute force password attack on an account may have the risk of locking the user accounts. The path information can be used to guess the operating system that is used by the target. We got all of this information without going to the domain website ourselves.

Metagoofil is also able to generate information in a report format. The following screenshot shows the generated report in HTML:

Metagoofil

In the report generated, we get information about usernames, software version, e-mail addresses, and server information from the target domain.