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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

Unicornscan

Unicornscan is an information gathering and correlation engine tool. It is useful for introducing stimulus and measuring the response from a TCP/IP device. Unicornscan has the following features:

  • Asynchronous stateless TCP port scanning
  • Asynchronous stateless TCP banner grabbing
  • Asynchronous UDP port scanning
  • Active and passive remote OS and application identification

To start Unicornscan, use the console to execute the following command:

# unicornscan -h

This will display all the options with their descriptions.

The main difference between Unicornscan and other similar tools is that it is a very fast and scalable port scanner. From our experience, the scanning of UDP ports will take a long time to finish, especially if you want to test all the ports for a network. Unicornscan can help you with this problem.

In Unicornscan, you can define how many packets you want to send per second. The higher the packets per second (PPS) value, the faster the scan process; but this may cause an overload on the network, so be careful when using this capability. The default PPS is 300.

Let's scan the target using the default options in Unicornscan. To carry out a UDP scan (-m U) for the ports 1-65535 on machine 172.16.43.156, display the result immediately, and to be verbose (-Iv), the command is as follows:

# unicornscan -m U -Iv 172.16.43.156:1-65535

The following is the reply from Unicornscan:

Unicornscan

From the preceding information, we know that by using the default PPS, this scan will take more than three minutes. To speed up the scanning process, let's change the packet sending rate to 10,000 (-r 10000):

unicornscan -m U -Iv 172.16.43.156/24:1-65535 -r 10000

The following is the response from Unicornscan:

Unicornscan

The scanning is much faster after we change the packet sending rate. Note that you may only use this rate in a fast network; if not, you may overwhelm the network with your UDP packets.

The following is the scan result:

Unicornscan