Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) Exam Cram

by William Easttom II

Overview

CEH Certified Ethical Hacker Exam Cram is the perfect study guide to help you pass the updated CEH exam. Dr. Chuck Easttom's expert real-world approach reflects both his expertise as one of the world's leading cybersecurity practitioners and instructors, as well as test-taking insights he has gained from teaching CEH preparation courses worldwide, including courses taught directly for EC-Council. Easttom assumes no prior knowledge: his expert coverage of every exam topic can help readers with little ethical hacking experience to obtain the knowledge they need to succeed.




Covers the critical information you'll need to score higher on your CEH exam!

• Review the core principles and concepts of ethical hacking
• Perform key pre-attack tasks, including reconnaissance and footprinting
• Master enumeration, vulnerability scanning, and vulnerability analysis
• Learn system hacking methodologies, how to cover your tracks, and more
• Utilize modern malware threats, including ransomware and financial malware
• Exploit packet sniffing and social engineering
• Master denial of service and session hacking attacks, tools, and countermeasures
• Evade security measures, including IDS, firewalls, and honeypots
• Hack web servers and applications, and perform SQL injection attacks
• Compromise wireless and mobile systems, from wireless encryption to recent Android exploits
• Hack Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) devices and systems
• Attack cloud computing systems, misconfigurations, and containers
• Use cryptanalysis tools and attack cryptographic systems

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780137513444
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	02/15/2022
Series:	Exam Cram
Pages:	448
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Dr. Chuck Easttom is the author of 34 books, including several on computer security, forensics, and cryptography. He holds a doctor of science degree in cybersecurity, a Ph.D. in nanotechnology, a Ph.D. in computer science, and three master's degrees (one in applied computer science, one in education, and one in systems engineering). He is also an inventor with 23 patents. He is a senior member of both the IEEE and the ACM. He is also a Distinguished Speaker of the ACM and a Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE. Dr. Easttom is currently an adjunct professor for Georgetown University and for University of Dallas.

Table of Contents

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx


CHAPTER 1:


Reconnaissance and Scanning.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1


Reconnaissance Types.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1


Active Reconnaissance Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32


CHAPTER 2:


Enumeration and Vulnerability Scanning.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 33


Scanning.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33


Scanning Process.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43


Network Packet Capture.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52


Vulnerability Scanning. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63


CHAPTER 3:


System Hacking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65


CEH Methodology.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65


Pass the Hash.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73


Spyware. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92


CHAPTER 4:


Malware.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93


Malware Types.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94


Viruses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108


Protecting Against Malware.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122


CHAPTER 5:


Packet Sniffing and Social Engineering.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 123


Social Engineering.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123


Packet Sniffing.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150


CHAPTER 6:


Denial of Service and Session Hijacking.. . . . . . . . . . . . . 151


Denial of Service. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151


Session Hijacking.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172


CHAPTER 7:


Evading Security Measures. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173


Intrusion Detection Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173


Firewalls and Honeypots.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183


Virtual Private Networks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189


IDS Evasion Techniques.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192


Firewall Evasion Techniques. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204


CHAPTER 8:


Hacking Web Servers and Web Applications.. . . . . . . . . . . 205


Web Servers.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205


Web Applications.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232


CHAPTER 9:


Hacking Wireless.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233


Wireless Technology.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233


Hacking Wireless.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258


CHAPTER 10:


Hacking Mobile.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259


Mobile Technologies.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259


Mobile Threats. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282


CHAPTER 11:


IOT and OT Hacking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283


IoT Fundamentals. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308


CHAPTER 12:


Cloud Computing and Hacking.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309


Cloud Fundamentals.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331


CHAPTER 13:


Cryptography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333


Cryptography Concepts.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333


PKI. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349


Cryptographic Attacks.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357


What Next?.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365


Glossary.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 367


Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391










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