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Ethical Hacking Full Course Revision: All 12 Weeks in One Session

Networking Fundamentals (Week 1-2)

Penetration Testing Approaches

  • White box testing: Full/detailed information about the target
  • Black box testing: Little or no prior information
  • Gray box testing: Partial information

TCP/IP vs OSI Model

  • OSI model: 7 layers
  • TCP/IP model: 4 layers (Application, Transport, Internet, Network)

TCP vs UDP

  • TCP: Connection-oriented, reliable, ordered delivery
  • UDP: Connectionless, no guarantee of delivery

Key Numerical Values

  • IPv4 address: 32 bits
  • Port number: 16 bits
  • IP header checksum: 16 bits
  • IP header length (IHL): ln × 4 bytes
  • Maximum IHL: 15 → 60 bytes

TTL (Time to Live)

  • Prevents infinite packet looping
  • Routers decrease TTL value; packet discarded when TTL reaches 0

IP Addressing & Subnetting (Week 2)

IP Fragmentation

  • MTU: Maximum Transmission Unit
  • Fragment offset: Position in units of 8 bytes
  • For offset = 100: byte position = 100 × 8 = 800 bytes

Fragmentation Flags

  • D (Don't Fragment): D=1 prohibits fragmentation
  • M (More Fragments): M=1 means more fragments follow; M=0 indicates last fragment

IPv4 Address Classes

| Class | Range | Purpose | |-------|-------|---------| | A | 1-126 | Unicast | | B | 128-191 | Unicast | | C | 192-223 | Unicast | | D | 224-239 | Multicast | | E | 240-255 | Experimental |

Private IP Address Ranges

  • 10.0.0.0/8
  • 172.16.0.0/12 (172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255)
  • 192.168.0.0/16

Subnetting Formulas

  • Total addresses: 2^(32-n)
  • Usable hosts: 2^h - 2 (h = number of host bits)

TCP 3-Way Handshake

  1. SYN (Synchronization)
  2. SYN-ACK
  3. ACK

UDP Header

  • Size: 8 bytes
  • Fields: Source port, Destination port, Length, Checksum

Routing & IPv6 (Week 3)

Routing Types

  • Static routing: Manually configured
  • Dynamic routing: Automatic updates

Routing Protocols

  • RIP: Interior gateway, distance vector, uses hop count (max 15)
  • OSPF: Interior gateway, link state, calculates least cost path
  • BGP: Exterior gateway, inter-AS routing, TCP port 179

IPv6 Characteristics

  • Address size: 128 bits
  • Base header size: 40 bytes
  • No traditional class A/B/C addressing
  • Transition methods: Dual stack, tunneling, translation

Reconnaissance & Scanning (Week 4)

Passive vs Active Reconnaissance

| Passive | Active | |---------|--------| | No direct contact with target | Direct communication with target | | Lower risk of detection | Higher risk of detection | | Examples: WHOIS, Netcraft, Wayback Machine | Examples: Port scanning, direct probes |

Google Search Operators

  • Quotation marks: Exact phrase search
  • site: Restrict to specific domain
  • filetype: Search for specific file type

NMAP Basics

  • -sP: ICMP echo sweep for host discovery
  • -sn: Host discovery without port scanning
  • -Pn: Skip host discovery (treat all hosts as online)
  • -sT: TCP connection scan
  • -sV: Service version detection
  • Default ports scanned: 1,000

Vulnerability Scanning & System Hacking (Week 5)

Port Scanning vs Vulnerability Scanning

  • Port scanning: Identifies open/closed/filtered ports
  • Vulnerability scanning: Searches for security weaknesses

Malware Types

  • Virus: Attaches to host/program
  • Worm: Self-propagates independently
  • Trojan: Disguises as legitimate software
  • Ransomware: Holds data for ransom

Privilege Escalation

  • Vertical: Gaining higher-level permissions
  • Horizontal: Gaining same-level permissions for different users

Cryptography & Security Attacks (Week 6)

Security Attack Categories

| Attack Type | Affected Security | Example | |-------------|-------------------|---------| | Interruption | Availability | DoS attack | | Interception | Confidentiality | Unauthorized reading | | Modification | Integrity | Data alteration | | Fabrication | Authenticity | Fake messages |

Symmetric vs Asymmetric Cryptography

  • Symmetric: Same key for encryption/decryption (DES, 3DES, AES)
  • Asymmetric: Public/private key pair (RSA, Diffie-Hellman)

Key Formulas

  • Number of keys (symmetric): n × (n - 1) / 2
  • Number of keys (public key): 2n
  • Shift cipher: c = (p + k) mod 26

AES Characteristics

  • Block size: 128 bits
  • Key lengths: 128, 192, or 256 bits

Hash Functions & Digital Signatures (Week 7)

Hash Function Properties

  • Variable-length input → fixed-length output
  • Same input → same hash
  • Different input → same hash (collision)

Hash Algorithm Output Sizes

  • MD5: 128 bits
  • SHA-1: 160 bits
  • SHA-256: 256 bits
  • SHA-512: 512 bits (block size: 1,024 bits)

Keyed vs Unkeyed Hash

  • Unkeyed (MDC): For integrity checking
  • Keyed (MAC): For authentication

Steganography, Biometrics & DoS (Week 8)

Steganography vs Encryption

  • Encryption: Hides meaning of information
  • Steganography: Hides existence of information

LSB Steganography Capacity

Capacity (bytes) = (Width × Height × Color channels × Bits per channel) / 8

Biometrics

  • Physiological: Fingerprints, iris, retina patterns
  • Behavioral: Signature dynamics, keystroke patterns

DoS Attack Examples

  • Smurf attack
  • Ping of death
  • Slowloris (keeps HTTP connections open with partial requests)

Sniffing & Social Engineering (Week 9)

Packet Sniffing

  • Wireshark: Packet capture and analysis tool
  • Captures sensitive information if misused

Social Engineering

  • Manipulates people into revealing confidential information
  • Reverse social engineering: Attacker poses as authority, victim approaches them

Hardware Security (Week 10-11)

Hardware Attack Types

  • Physical probing: Invasive, accessing internal chip signals
  • Reverse engineering: Examining internal structure
  • Side-channel attacks: Infer information from physical characteristics
  • Differential Power Analysis (DPA): Multiple measurements with statistical analysis
  • Hardware Trojans: Malicious modifications in chip design

Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF)

  • Provides device-unique authentication

Practical Security Testing (Week 11-12)

Metasploit Framework

  • Exploit: Takes advantage of vulnerability
  • Encoder: Encodes payload to avoid detection

SQL Injection (SQLMap)

  • Extract databases, tables, users, passwords

XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

  • Stored XSS: Persistent script in database
  • Reflected XSS: Non-persistent, requires user interaction

Final Exam Quick Reference

| Topic | Key Point | |-------|-----------| | IP header length | IHL × 4 bytes (max 60 bytes) | | Fragment offset | Multiply by 8 for byte position | | Private IP 172 range | 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255 | | Routing with hop count | RIP (max 15 hops) | | Link state protocol | OSPF | | Inter-AS routing | BGP (TCP port 179) | | Symmetric key count | n(n-1)/2 | | Public key count | 2n | | AES block size | 128 bits | | UDP header size | 8 bytes |

For a more in-depth review of the full scope of ethical hacking, you can refer to the Comprehensive Guide to Ethical Hacking: From Basics to Advanced Concepts. To explore starting your hands-on journey, check out the 30-Day Ethical Hacking Challenge: Day 1 - Introduction to Ethical Hacking. If you are interested in the broader field, the Complete Cybersecurity Full Course: Threats, Tools & Career Guide provides an excellent overview. For consolidation of foundational concepts, the Class 11th Computer Science Complete Revision - Python, Logic Gates & Cybersecurity summary is a valuable resource. Finally, for those focusing on operating system defense, the Comprehensive Linux Security and Hardening Techniques Course Overview offers specialized knowledge.

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