Who this book is for
This book is for ethical hackers; penetration testers; students preparing for OSCP, OSCE,
GPEN, GXPN, and CEH; information security professionals; cyber security consultants;
system and network security administrators; and programmers who are keen on learning
all about penetration testing.
What this book covers
, Warming up Your First Antivirus-Free Persistence Shell, prepares our Kali Linux
as the attacker machine. It also prepares out a target and gives a quick overview of the TCP
reverse shell, the HTTP reverse shell, and how to assemble those.
, Advanced Scriptable Shell, covers evaluating dynamic DNS, interacting with
Twitter, and the use of countermeasures to protect ourselves from attacks.
, Password Hacking, explains the usage of antivirus free loggers, hijacking the
KeePass password manager, Firefox API hooking, and password phishing.
, Catch Me If You Can!, explains how to bypass a host-based firewall outline,
hijack Internet Explorer, and bypass reputation filtering. We also interact with source forge
and Google forms.
, Miscellaneous Fun in Windows, focus on exploiting vulnerable software in
Windows and different techniques within privilege escalation. We’ll also look into creating
backdoors and covering our tracks.
, Abuse of Cryptography by Malware, provides a quick introduction to encryption
algorithms, protecting your tunnel with AES and RSA, and developing hybrid-encryption keys

