Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

Penetration testing is becoming one of the most important roles in information security with the increased need and importance for companies and organizations to secure their digital infrastructure. Windows plays an integral role in the digital infrastructure of a company, as a result, it is one of the most targeted operating systems by attackers. This has led to an increased demand for skilled penetration testers experienced in testing and exploiting the Windows operating system.

In this course, you will learn the essentials of windows penetration testing from performing information gathering and service enumeration to exploitation and privilege escalation. You will learn how to identify vulnerabilities in Windows-specific services and how to exploit powerful vulnerabilities like EternalBlue.

By the end of this course, you will learn how to effectively perform penetration tests and identify and exploit vulnerabilities on Windows systems.

What You Will Learn

  • Learn how to setup your own virtual penetration testing lab with active directory and how to obtain evaluation copies of Windows
  • Learn how to perform information gathering and enumeration of Windows-specific services with Nmap and OpenVAS
  • Learn how to identify vulnerablities like EternalBlue , perform exploitation with Metasploit and perform system pivoting to establish a foothold on a network

Program Curriculum

  • Setting up Kali VM on VirtualBox
  • Setting up a Virtual Hacking Lab
  • Setting up Windows 10
  • $7 Million Cybersecurity Scholarship by EC-Council

  • Host Discovery and Network Scanning with Nmap
  • Service Version Detection and OS Detection
  • Firewall Detection and Evasion with Nmap
  • Service Enumeration with Nmap Scripts
  • Vulnerability Scanning with Nmap
  • Chapter 2 Lab
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Metasploit Essentials
  • Generating Payloads with Msfvenom
  • Encoding Payloads with Msfvenom
  • Executing Payloads
  • Exploiting Eternalblue Vulnerability
  • Chapter 3 Lab
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

  • Meterpreter Essentials
  • Setting up Persistence
  • Windows 7 Privilege Escalation
  • Windows 10 Privilege Escalation
  • Clearing Event Logs
  • Chapter 4 Lab
  • Chapter 4 Quiz

  • Dumping Password Hashes
  • Windows Credentials Editor
  • Cracking NTLM Password Hashes with John the Ripper
  • Chapter 5 Lab
  • Chapter 5 Quiz

  • Installing Shellter
  • Binding Payloads with Executable Shellter
  • Installing Veil Evasion
  • Generating Advanced Payloads with Veil Evasion
  • Chapter 6 Lab
  • Chapter 6 Quiz

  • Exploiting ManageEngine Vulnerability
  • Exploiting EternalBlue Vulnerability
  • Cracking NTLM Hashes with John the Ripper
  • Chapter 7 Lab
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Instructor

Alexis Ahmed

Author

Alexis Ahmed is a highly motivated IT professional with over 6 years of experience in Penetration Testing and Information Security. He is well versed in securing enterprise networks, Linux servers, and cloud infrastructure for companies and large organizations. He also has vast experience with Enterprise Linux system administration, specifically RHEL & CentOS. He also has a keen interest in kernel hacking and reverse engineering and is a renowned content creator with an audience of over 500,000 on his YouTube channel HackerSploit, where he makes videos and content on Penetration testing, Linux, and malware analysis.

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