A hands-on guide to hacking computer systems from the ground up from capturing traffic to
crafting sneaky successful trojans.A crash course in modern hacking techniques Ethical
Hacking is already being used to prepare the next generation of offensive security experts. In
its many hands-on labs you’ll explore crucial skills for any aspiring penetration tester
security researcher or malware analyst. You’ll begin with the basics: capturing a victim’s
network traffic with an ARP spoofing attack and then viewing it in Wireshark. From there
you’ll deploy reverse shells that let you remotely run commands on a victim’s computer encrypt
files by writing your own ransomware in Python and fake emails like the ones used in phishing
attacks. In advanced chapters you’ll learn how to fuzz for new vulnerabilities craft trojans
and rootkits exploit websites with SQL injection and escalate your privileges to extract
credentials which you’ll use to traverse a private network. You’ll work with a wide range of
professional penetration testing tools—and learn to write your own tools in Python—as you
practice tasks like: Deploying the Metasploit framework’s reverse shells and embedding them in
innocent-seeming files Capturing passwords in a corporate Windows network using Mimikatz
Scanning (almost) every device on the internet to find potential victims Installing Linux
rootkits that modify a victim’s operating system Performing advanced Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
attacks that execute sophisticated JavaScript payloads Along the way you’ll gain a foundation
in the relevant computing technologies. Discover how advanced fuzzers work behind the scenes
learn how internet traffic gets encrypted explore the inner mechanisms of nation-state malware
like Drovorub and much more. Developed with feedback from cybersecurity students Ethical
Hacking addresses contemporary issues in the field not often covered in other books and will
prepare you for a career in penetration testing. Most importantly you’ll be able to think like
an ethical hacker: someone who can carefully analyze systems and creatively gain access to
them.
