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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

Zenmap

Zenmap is the graphical interface of Nmap. The advantages of Zenmap compared to Nmap are as follows:

  • Zenmap is interactive; it arranges the scan results in a convenient way. It can even draw a topological map of the discovered network.
  • Zenmap can do a comparison between two scans.
  • Zenmap keeps a track of the scan results.
  • To run the same scan configuration more than once, the penetration tester can use a Zenmap profile.
  • Zenmap will always display the command that is run, so the penetration tester can verify that command.

To start Zenmap, navigate to Kali Linux | Information Gathering | Network Scanners | Zenmap, or use the console to execute the following command:

#zenmap

This will display the main Zenmap window. Zenmap comes with 10 profiles that can be chosen. To find which command options are used on each profile, just click on Profile and the command options will be displayed in the Command: box, as shown in the following screenshot:

Zenmap

If the provided profiles are not suitable for our needs, we can create our own profile by creating a new profile or editing the existing ones. These tasks can be found under the Profile menu.

To create a new profile, select the menu New Profile or Command, or you can press the keys Ctrl + P. To edit an existing profile, select the Edit Selected Profile menu or press Ctrl + E.

Select each tab (Profile, Scan, Ping, Scripting, Target, Source, Other, and Timing) and configure it according to your needs. If you have finished configuring the profile, save the profile by clicking on the Save Changes button, as shown in the following screenshot:

Zenmap

Let's scan the 192.168.10.1-254 host using the Regular scan profile, as shown in the following screenshot:

Zenmap

If you want to see the network topology, click on the Topology tab and you will be able to see the details, as shown in the following screenshot:

Zenmap

To save the Zenmap result, go to the Scan menu and choose Save Scan. Zenmap will then ask you where you want to save the result. The default format is XML, as shown in the following screenshot:

Zenmap

To find the differences between the scans, perform the first scan and then save the result. Then, make changes to the scan targets. Next, do the second scan and save the result. Later, compare the scan results by going to the Tools menu and selecting Compare Results.

For A Scan, you can select the XML file of the first scan result by clicking on the Open button, while for B Scan, you can select the XML file of the second scan result, as shown in the following screenshot:

Zenmap

The - character denotes that this line is removed in the B Scan result, while the + character means that this line is added in the B Scan result.

What we notice is that there was an entire host that was visible on the first scan but not the second. This feature also allows the tester to view ports that have been open or closed over time. This is very handy if a target network has a new open port that is indicative of a specific piece of software. This is also handy if you are scanning a large network and want to see if devices have been added or removed.