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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition

You're reading from Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing, Second Edition Secure your network with Kali Linux – the ultimate white hat hackers' toolkit

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787120235

Length 510 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Vijay Kumar Velu

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Goal-Based Penetration Testing FREE CHAPTER

2. Open Source Intelligence and Passive Reconnaissance

3. Active Reconnaissance of External and Internal Networks

4. Vulnerability Assessment

5. Physical Security and Social Engineering

6. Wireless Attacks

7. Reconnaissance and Exploitation of Web-Based Applications

8. Attacking Remote Access

9. Client-Side Exploitation

10. Bypassing Security Controls

11. Exploitation

12. Action on the Objective

13. Privilege Escalation

14. Command and Control

Index

The Metasploit framework

The Metasploit framework (MSF) is an open source tool designed to facilitate penetration testing. Written in the Ruby programming language, it uses a modular approach to facilitating exploits during the exploitation phase in kill-chain methodology. This makes it easier to develop and code exploits, and it also allows for complex attacks to be easily implemented.

The following screenshot depicts an overview of the Metasploit framework architecture and components:

The framework can be split into three main sections:

Libraries
Interfaces
Modules

Libraries

Metasploit framework is built using various functions and libraries and a programming language such as Ruby. To utilize these functions, first the penetration testers must understand what these functions are, how to trigger them, what parameters should be passed to the function and what the expected results are.

All the libraries are listed in the /usr/share/Metasploit-framework/lib/ folder as shown in the following screenshot...

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Authors (1)

Vijay Kumar Velu

Vijay Kumar Velu

Vijay Kumar Velu is a passionate information security practitioner, author, speaker, investor, and blogger. He has 16+ years of IT industry experience, is a licensed penetration tester and is specialized in providing technical solutions to diverse cyber problems, ranging from simple security configuration reviews to cyber threat intelligence. Vijay holds multiple security qualifications, including CEH, ECSA, and CHFI. He has authored a few books on penetration testing: Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Second & Third Editions, and Mobile Application Penetration Testing. For the community, Vijay serves as the chair member of NCDRC, India. When not working, he enjoys playing music and doing charity work.

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