Ethical Hacking Workshop: Explore a practical approach to learning and applying ethical hacking techniques for effective cybersecurity

Ethical Hacking Workshop....2 Contributors....7 About the authors....7 About the reviewers....9 Preface....16 Who this book is for....17 What this book covers....18 To get the most out of this book....18 Conventions used....20 Get in touch....21 Share Your Thoughts....21 Download a free PDF copy of this book....22 Part 1:Network Fundamentals....23 Chapter 1: Networking Primer....24 Technical requirements....24 Why is networking crucial?....24 Networking concepts on-premises and in the cloud....25 Packets....25 MAC address....26 IP addresses....26 Cloud computing....27 Infrastructure-as-a-Service....29 Software-as-a-Service....30 Platform-as-a-Service....30 Networking tools and attacks....31 Packet capturing....31 MAC address spoofing....35 ARP spoofing....37 Setting up the lab....39 Putting what you have learned into practice....44 Best practices....46 Summary....46 Chapter 2: Capturing and Analyzing Network Traffic....48 Technical requirements....48 Capturing network traffic....48 Capturing and analyzing wired network traffic....51 Working with network traffic in the cloud....63 Putting what you have learned into practice....64 Best practices....64 Summary....64 Chapter 3: Cryptography Primer....65 Technical requirements....65 What is encryption?....65 The Caesar cipher....66 The Vigenère cipher....67 Overview of common encryption ciphers....67 Encryption algorithms....68 Symmetric encryption....68 Asymmetric encryption....72 Common types of encryption attacks....73 Encryption in the cloud....73 Putting what you have learned into practice....74 Summary....77 Part 2: Breaking and Entering....78 Chapter 4: Reconnaissance....79 Technical requirements....79 What is reconnaissance?....79 Passive information gathering....81 Active information gathering....92 Performing recon on wireless networks....94 Performing recon in the cloud....99 Gitleaks....99 CloudBrute....101 Putting what you have learned into practice....102 DNS domain enumeration....102 Performing OSINT with Shodan....103 Conducting wireless reconnaissance....103 Best practices....103 Summary....104 Chapter 5: Scanning....105 Technical requirements....105 Scanning techniques....105 Port scanning....106 Understanding Nmap....108 Vulnerability scanning....116 Nmap vulnerability scanning....116 OpenVAS....118 Wi-Fi and cloud scanning....123 Wireless scanning....123 Scanning exercises....133 Summary....134 Chapter 6: Gaining Access....135 Technical requirements....135 Social engineering....135 Phishing....136 IP address sniffing and spoofing....137 Wireshark....137 macchanger....138 Code-based attacks....139 Buffer overflow....139 Format string attacks....140 Exploiting services....142 Password cracking....142 Pass the hash....150 Web app attacks....151 Exploiting cloud services....159 Exercises on gaining access....160 Summary....161 Part 3: Total Immersion....162 Chapter 7: Post-Exploitation....163 Technical requirements....163 Privilege escalation....163 unix-privsec-check....164 LinPEAS....166 Lateral movement....167 Evil-WinRM....167 Backdoors and Trojan horses....171 Trojan horse....175 Rootkits....179 User-mode rootkits....180 Kernel-mode rootkits....181 Rootkit scanning....183 Maintaining access in the cloud environment....189 Post-exploitation exercises....190 Privilege escalation and lateral movement....190 Backdoors and Trojan horses....190 Embedded software backdoor....190 Rootkits....192 Summary....193 Index....194 Why subscribe?....211 Other Books You May Enjoy....211 Packt is searching for authors like you....213 Share Your Thoughts....214 Download a free PDF copy of this book....214