Summary

During the course of this chapter, you have gained hands-on experience and skills to conduct post-exploitation actions on a compromised host within a network. You have learned how to perform privilege escalation and steal and impersonate a user's token on a compromised system. You have also discovered how to perform lateral movement across a network, pivot your attacks through a victim machine, and access a hidden network. Furthermore, you have learned how to encode executable files into ASCII format to evade threat detection and have gained the skills to perform data exfiltration using DNS messages between a compromised host and Kali Linux. Lastly, you have gained the skills for performing MITM attacks on a network.

I hope this chapter has been informative for you and is helpful in your journey as an aspiring penetration tester learning how to simulate real-world cyber-attacks to discover security vulnerabilities and perform exploitation using Kali Linux. In the next...