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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

You're reading from   Penetration Testing Bootcamp Quickly get up and running with pentesting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288744
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Beltrame Jason Beltrame
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning and Preparation FREE CHAPTER 2. Information Gathering 3. Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server 4. Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit 5. Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing 6. Password-based Attacks 7. Attacks on the Network Infrastructure 8. Web Application Attacks 9. Cleaning Up and Getting Out 10. Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Checking for a DNS BIND version

Being able to see which version of BIND a DNS server is running will give you some potentially great information. A lot of DNS servers out there are designed to not give up that information or reveal some generic information about its setup. But there are still a lot of BIND instances running out there that may reveal the exact version of BIND they are running. Using the version you glean from the following command, you can cross-reference that version against any known exploits, and if there are some, you now have a potential way in.

In the following example, I was able to grab the BIND server information from a publicly available DNS server. I have changed the name to protect the innocent:

root@pi-kali:~# host -c chaos -t txt version.bind DNS1.XXXX.NET
Using domain server:
Name: DNS1.XXXX.NET
Address: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX#53
Aliases:
version.bind descriptive...
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