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Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition

You're reading from Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing – Fourth Edition Become a cybersecurity ethical hacking expert using Metasploit, Nmap, Wireshark, and Burp Suite

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801819770

Length 572 pages

Edition 4th Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Burp Suite

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Vijay Kumar Velu

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

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. Advanced Social Engineering and Physical Security

6. Wireless and Bluetooth Attacks

7. Exploiting Web-Based Applications

8. Cloud Security Exploitation

9. Bypassing Security Controls

10. Exploitation

11. Action on the Objective and Lateral Movement

12. Privilege Escalations

13. Command and Control

14. Embedded Devices and RFID Hacking

15. Other Books You May Enjoy

16. Index

Vulnerability scanning and application exploitation in an EC2 instance

The first step is to equip our Kali Linux to install the AWS client by running sudo apt install awscli from the terminal, and then we can leverage the tools to understand what permissions we have with the current API and secret keys.

Configure the AWS profile by running sudo aws configure --profile <profilename> in the terminal.

In this case, we will configure the two profiles within our Kali Linux:

For demonstration purposes, we will change the suggested Lara profile name (see Figure 8.4) to RCE (Remote Code Execution) with the access key and secret key.
We will create a mcduck profile as suggested by CloudGoat with the keys generated during the CloudGoat scenario deployment.
```
sudo aws configure –-profile <profilename>
```

To confirm that our profiles are working, we can list down the S3 (which is Amazon’s Simple Storage Service) buckets...

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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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