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Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624480
Pages 396 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface 1. Introduction to Advanced Infrastructure Penetration Testing 2. Advanced Linux Exploitation 3. Corporate Network and Database Exploitation 4. Active Directory Exploitation 5. Docker Exploitation 6. Exploiting Git and Continuous Integration Servers 7. Metasploit and PowerShell for Post-Exploitation 8. VLAN Exploitation 9. VoIP Exploitation 10. Insecure VPN Exploitation 11. Routing and Router Vulnerabilities 12. Internet of Things Exploitation 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

DHCP attacks

DHCP is a network layer protocol based on RFC 2131 that enables assigning IP addresses dynamically to hosts. The following four required steps to assign an IP address to a specific host:

  • DHCP discover
  • DHCP offer
  • DHCP request
  • DHCP acknowledgment

DHCP starvation

In this chapter, we are discussing layer 2 attacks; I bet you are wondering why we talked about a network layer protocol (DHCP in our case). The answer is easy. Attackers can perform what we call DHCP starvation. An attacker broadcasts DHCP requests with spoofed MAC addresses; this attack exploits the DHCP servers address space. This attack can be done using a simple tools, such as the gobbler.

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