Certified Penetration Testing Expert™

• Perform a penetration test and submit a deliverable report
• Capture and replay VoIP traffic
• Find and exploit databases with SQL Injection vulnerabilities
• Manipulate prices on e-commerce websites
• Obtain and transfer information via Bluetooth enabled telephones
• Tools and resources for picking simple and complex locks
• Techniques for Wireless Site Surveying and Cracking WEP/WPA key

Additionally, attendees will be qualified to confidently undertake the CPTE practical examination.

COURSE OUTLINE

This course is designed to take an individual with knowledge of the basic security auditing toolset to the next and higher level. Many courses teach “how to hack”; the CPTE course teaches “the business of penetration testing”. The course delivers advanced and cutting edge techniques for auditing a broad range of security controls (including Physical and User Security) with “hands-on” laboratories designed by real world security auditors.
The CPTE course also delivers the “business side” of penetration testing, including RFPs, Authorization, Security Policy Review and Compliance. The CPTE courseware is constantly updated (with updates available to past students) to reflect the most current security issues and known exploits; this is the way of the Certified Penetration Testing Expert.

Each day ends with a Capture the Flag Competition to ensure that participants retain the daily objectives.

UPON COMPLETION

A Certified Penetration Testing Expert is a security professional with the ability to plan, manage and perform a penetration test. The designation “Expert” is related to the depth and breadth of understanding required to manage a project involving multiple team members, manage the client’s expectations and deliver an audit of security controls that is thorough, well documented and ethically sound.

Topics covered

DETAILED MODULE DESCRIPTION

Module 1: Intro and Pen Test Overview

• Authorization
• Defining Boundaries
• Objectives and Scope of the Pen Test
• Plan of Attack
• Gathering Information

• Reconnaissance
• Information Gathering
• Scanning
• Enumeration
• Vulnerability Assessments
• Exploiting Systems
• Back Doors/Root Kits
• Covering Tracks
• Wireless Attacks

To ensure that students gain as much as possible from the CPTE course, we start with a refresher on all tools and techniques covered in ‘foundation’ hacking courses such as CPTS, CEH and OSPT. The subjects covered include information gathering, scanning, enumeration, vulnerability assessments, exploiting systems, packet interception / analysis and wireless detection techniques. Some of the tools the student will use include Sam Spade, SmartWhois, nmap, hping2, xprobe2, RPCclient, LophtCrack, Cain & Abel, Metasploit, Ethereal, Netstumbler, Wellenreiter etc.

Module 3: Core Impact -- Initial Pen Test

This lesson will instruct in the use of Core Technologies, market leading commercial penetration testing application. This tool will allow the penetration tester to quickly build up a security snapshot of the target network. From here, the tester will then move onto more advanced manual methods to complete the test.

The hands-on laboratory will allow the student to use Core Impact to perform a Rapid Pen Test.

Module 4: External/DMZ

The first point of contact with a target network will predominantly be through the De-Militarized Zone. This whole section is dedicated to the exploits that apply to this part of the Attack Surface. It is sub-sectioned into:

• DNS/Mail/Web/VPN Servers
• Database Mining-SQL Injection

Database Mining is the process of attacking a database server through the front end. In this section, we open up a network through a SQL server web interface running on a web server inside the DMZ.

Laboratory: Students will be thrust into an online banking environment and will successfully exploit the database front-end to bypass authorization, elevate account privileges, transfer money and manipulate cookies by employing an advanced ‘SQL Injection’ technique known as ‘Blind SQL Injection’. Other attack methods will include VPN IPSEC PSK cracking, circumventing DNS, Mail and Web servers using the latest techniques.

Module 5: Wireless Site Surveying

During this module, the students will learn all about the current security mechanisms employed to secure wireless networks, WEP/WPA/WPA2 and 802.11x. After talking about the security of these networks, we cover the attacks to bypass all of the security.
Laboratory: Most corporate wireless networks are now protected with encryption such as Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) or Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA). The auditing of these networks requires the tester to attempt to break that encryption. This is exactly what the student will do! We use advanced techniques to break WEP encryption by re-injecting encrypted packets back onto the network and cracking the key in as little as 10 minutes. The tool set the student will become expert with includes kismet, airodump, aireplay, aircrack and cowpatty.

Module 6: Attacking Bluetooth Devices

As more and more Bluetooth devices appear on the corporate network, the professional penetration tester has to enhance his/her skills to encompass this technology. PDAs, cell phones and other BT devices are all vulnerable to attacks. The hands-on laboratory will teach the students the practical skills required to discover BT devices and retrieve personal information from cell phones and even make phone calls on somebody else’s bill! The tool set includes BTscanner, ghettotooth, redfang and bluesnarfer.

Module 7: Programming 101

This module is not designed as a “learn programming in one easy step” as that is not possible. We focus our students’ efforts on checking code obtained from underground websites so that it will compile correctly and perform the actions it is meant to. We cannot use a new tool on a client network without first ensuring it is safe.

Module 8: Internal Pen Testing

Once inside the external defences, the penetration tester has a whole different set of techniques and tools to use. This module is dedicated to internal testing. It is sub-sectioned into:

• Database Servers
• Network Attacks
• Password Retrieval and Cracking

Having a direct connection to a database server will allow many more attack vectors such as database discovery, enumeration and direct exploits like buffer overflows. We cover the market leading database servers (MS SQL, Oracle etc) and also talk about hardening these servers.

Laboratory: ARP Cache Poisoning, SSH/SSL Man-In-The-Middle Attacks, Voice Over IP interception and DNS Poisoning, Protocol Analysis, Password Cracking (Dictionary/Brute Force/Hybrid/Rainbow Tables), Buffer Overflow/Heap Overflow/Stack Overflow Exploits are just some of the attacks in this module, all of which will enable the penetration tester to expose the weaknesses of the network.

Module 9: Physical Security

Physical access to a client’s building can offer the penetration tester a whole host of powerful attack vectors. This module will teach the student how to gain access by picking the door locks and padlocks securing the building. Yes, you read correctly! By the end of the hands on laboratory, student will be able to open most common types of pin tumbler door locks and 90% of padlocks available on the market, thus being able to play a greater part is their respective organizations physical security policies. Most ‘Ethical Hacking’ courses talk about the theory of physical access; the CPTE covers the practical art of physical access.

Module 10: After the Pen Test

Laboratory: Presentation of the Penetration Test Report