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By Georgia Weidman

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Penetration testers simulate cyber assaults to discover defense weaknesses in networks, working structures, and functions. info protection specialists around the world use penetration concepts to judge company defenses.

In Penetration checking out, safeguard specialist, researcher, and coach Georgia Weidman introduces you to the center abilities and methods that each pentester wishes. utilizing a digital machine–based lab that comes with Kali Linux and weak working structures, you’ll run via a chain of useful classes with instruments like Wireshark, Nmap, and Burp Suite. As you persist with besides the labs and release assaults, you’ll event the foremost levels of a precise assessment—including details collecting, discovering exploitable vulnerabilities, getting access to structures, put up exploitation, and more.

Learn how to:

Crack passwords and instant community keys with brute-forcing and wordlists
attempt internet purposes for vulnerabilities
Use the Metasploit Framework to release exploits and write your personal Metasploit modules
Automate social-engineering attacks
pass antivirus software
flip entry to 1 laptop into overall regulate of the firm within the publish exploitation phase

You’ll even discover writing your personal exploits. Then it’s directly to cellular hacking—Weidman’s specific zone of research—with her device, the telephone Pentest Framework.

With its number of hands-on classes that hide key instruments and methods, Penetration checking out is the advent that each aspiring hacker needs.
About the Author

Georgia Weidman is a penetration tester and researcher, in addition to the founding father of Bulb defense, a safety consulting company. She offers at meetings world wide, together with Black Hat, ShmooCon, and DerbyCon, and teaches sessions on issues comparable to penetration trying out, cellular hacking, and take advantage of improvement. She was once offered a DARPA Cyber speedy tune provide to proceed her paintings in cellular equipment security.

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The exercises in Chapter 20 will work as long as the emulators can communicate with Kali. Smartphone Pentest Framework Next, download and install the Smartphone Pentest Framework (SPF), which we’ll use for mobile attacks. Use git to download the source code. Change to the downloaded Smartphone-Pentest-Framework directory as shown here. git root@kali:~# cd Smartphone-Pentest-Framework Now open the file kaliinstall in the nano text editor. The first few lines are shown in Listing 1-5. Note the lines that refer to /root/adt-bundle-linux​ -x86-20131030/sdk/tools/android.

Html. 2. Download the current version of the ADT bundle for 32-bit Linux and save it to your root directory. 22 Chapter 1 3. Open a terminal, list the files there (ls), and extract the compressed archive that you just downloaded with unzip (the x’s represent the name of your file, as versions may have changed since this was written). zip 4. zip extension). /android 5. The Android SDK Manager should open, as shown in Figure 1-13. 1. Select the boxes to the left of each Android version. Then (leaving Updates/New and Installed checked) click Install packages, as shown in Figure 1-14.

We’ll look at exploitation in Chapter 8. Post Exploitation Some say pentests truly begin only after exploitation, in the post-exploitation phase. You got in, but what does that intrusion really mean to the client? If you broke into an unpatched legacy system that isn’t part of a domain or 4 Chapter 0 otherwise networked to high-value targets, and that system contains no information of interest to an attacker, that vulnerability’s risk is significantly lower than if you were able to exploit a domain controller or a client’s development system.

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