The Ultimate Kali Linux

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1

 Preface

  • Who this course is for
  • What this course covers
  • To get the most out of this course
2

Introduction to Ethical Hacking

  • Understanding the need for cybersecurity
  • Exploring cybersecurity terminology
  • Identifying threat actors and their intent
  • Understanding what matters to threat actors
  • Exploring the importance of penetration testing
  • Penetration testing methodologies
  • Discovering penetration testing approaches
  • Types of penetration testing
  • Exploring the phases of penetration testing
  • Understanding the Cyber Kill Chain framework
  • Summary
3

Building a Penetration Testing Lab

  • Technical requirements
  • An overview of the lab setup and technologies used
  • Setting up a hypervisor and virtual networks
  • Setting up and working with Kali Linux
  • Setting up a vulnerable web application
  • Deploying Metasploitable 2 as a vulnerable machine
  • Building and deploying Metasploitable 3
  • Summary
4

Setting Up for Advanced Penetration Testing Techniques

  • Technical requirements
  • Building an Active Directory red team lab
  • Setting up a wireless penetration testing lab
  • Summary
5

Passive Reconnaissance

  • Technical requirements
  • The importance of reconnaissance
  • Exploring passive reconnaissance
  • Creating a sock puppet
  • Anonymizing internet-based traffic
  • Summary
6

Exploring Open-Source Intelligence

  • Technical requirements
  • Google hacking techniques
  • Domain reconnaissance
  • Sub-domain harvesting
  • Identifying organizational infrastructure
  • Harvesting employees’ data using Hunter
  • Automating social media reconnaissance with Sherlock
  • Summary
7

Active Reconnaissance

  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding active information
  • Profiling websites using EyeWitness
  • Exploring active scanning techniques
  • Using scanning evasion techniques
  • Enumerating network services
  • Discovering data leaks in the cloud
  • Summary
8

Performing Vulnerability Assessments

  • Technical requirements
  • Getting started with Nessus
  • Vulnerability identification using Nmap
  • Working with Greenbone Vulnerability Manager
  • Using web application scanners
  • Summary
9

Understanding Network Penetration Testing

  • Technical requirements
  • Introduction to network penetration testing
  • Working with bind and reverse shells
  • Antimalware evasion techniques
  • Working with wireless adapters
  • Managing and Monitoring wireless modes
  • Summary
10

Performing Network Penetration Testing

  • Technical requirements
  • Exploring password-based attacks
  • Performing host discovery
  • Identifying and exploiting vulnerable services
  • Summary
11

Post-Exploitation Techniques

  • Technical requirements
  • Pass-the-hash techniques
  • Post exploitation using Meterpreter
  • Data encoding and exfiltration
  • Summary
12

Delving into Command and Control Tactics

  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding C2
  • Setting up C2 operations
  • Post-exploitation using Empire
  • Working with Starkiller
  • Summary
13

Working with Active Directory Attacks

  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding Active Directory
  • Enumerating Active Directory
  • Leveraging network-based trust
  • Summary
14

Advanced Active Directory Attacks

  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding Kerberos
  • Abusing trust on IPv6 with Active Directory
  • Attacking Active Directory
  • Domain dominance and persistence
  • Summary
15

Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing

  • Technical Requirements
  • Introduction to Wireless Networking
  • Performing Wireless Reconnaissance
  • Compromising WPA/WPA2 Networks
  • Performing AP-less Attacks
  • Exploiting Enterprise Networks
  • Setting Up a Wi-Fi Honeypot
  • Exploiting WPA3 Attacks
  • Summary
16

Social Engineering Attacks

  • Technical requirements
  • Fundamentals of social engineering
  • Types of social engineering
  • Planning for each type of social engineering attack
  • Defending against social engineering
  • Exploring social engineering tools and techniques
  • Summary
17

Understanding Website Application Security

  • Technical requirements
  • Understanding web applications
  • Exploring the OWASP Top 10: 2021
  • Getting started with FoxyProxy and Burp Suite
  • Understanding injection-based attacks
  • Exploring broken access control attacks
  • Discovering cryptographic failures
  • Understanding insecure design
  • Exploring security misconfiguration
  • Summary
18

Advanced Website Penetration Testing

  • Technical requirements
  • Identifying vulnerable and outdated components
  • Exploiting identification and authentication failures
  • Understanding software and data integrity failures
  • Exploring server-side request forgery
  • Understanding security logging and monitoring failures
  • Understanding cross-site scripting
  • Automating SQL injection attacks
  • Performing client-side attacks
  • Summary
19

Best Practices for the Real World

  • Technical requirements
  • Guidelines for penetration testers
  • Penetration testing checklist
  • Creating a hacker’s toolkit
  • Setting up remote access
  • Next steps ahead
  • Summary
A

Appendix

  • Setting Up a Penetration Testing Lab on Ubuntu Desktop
  • Technical requirements
  • An overview of the lab setup and technologies used
  • Setting up a hypervisor and virtual networks
  • Setting up Kali Linux on Ubuntu
  • Setting up Metasploitable 3 on Ubuntu
  • Summary

1

Building a Penetration Testing Lab

  • Setting Up a Vulnerable Web Application
2

Passive Reconnaissance

  • Setting Up TOR Services and TOR Browser on Kali Linux
  • Setting Up Proxychains
3

Exploring Open-Source Intelligence

  • Performing Automation using SpiderFoot
  • Exploiting DNS Zone Transfer
  • Using DNSRecon for DNS Enumeration
  • Performing Sub-domain Enumeration with Knockpy
  • Performing Enumeration with DNSMap
  • Performing Live Host Discovery
  • Using Netcraft to Profile a Targeted Organization/Domain
  • Using theHarvester for Data Collection
4

Active Reconnaissance

  • Changing MAC Address using MAC Changer
5

Performing Vulnerability Assessments

  • Conducting Vulnerability Scanning Using Nessus
  • Performing Vulnerability Scanning Using OpenVAS
6

Understanding Network Penetration Testing

  • Setting Up Bind and Reverse Shells
  • Working with Remote Shells Using Netcat
7

Performing Network Penetration Testing

  • Performing Host Discovery on a Targeted Network
8

Post-Exploitation Techniques

  • Working with Impacket for Pass-the-Hash Attack
9

Delving into Command and Control Tactics

  • Performing Penetration Testing with the Empire Server and Starkiller
10

Working with Active Directory Attacks

  • Exploiting SMB
  • Exploiting SAM Database
11

Advanced Active Directory Attacks

  • Passing the Hash Using Mimikatz
12

Advanced Wireless Penetration Testing

  • Setting Up a Honeypot on Kali Linux
13

Social Engineering Attacks

  • Performing a Phishing Attack
  • Performing Social Engineering Attack
14

Understanding Website Application Security

  • Setting Up FoxyProxy for Proxy Configuration
  • Exploiting a Website Using SQL Injection
15

Advanced Website Penetration Testing

  • Identifying Vulnerable and Outdated Components
  • Attacking a Website Using XSS Injection
  • Performing a Client-Side attack Using BeEF

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