Certified Ethical Hacker CEH v.13 AI Training Course

Introduction to Ethical Hacking

• Core principles of ethical hacking and information security
• Overviews of cybersecurity threats, vulnerabilities, and attack surfaces
• Concepts, phases, and methodologies in ethical hacking
• Information security controls and established security frameworks
• Classifications of hackers, attacks, and attack vectors
• Legal, regulatory, and ethical implications
• The role of AI in ethical hacking and cybersecurity
• Understanding the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK concepts

Footprinting and Reconnaissance

• Basics of reconnaissance activities
• Passive and active information gathering techniques
• Identifying target infrastructure and potential attack surfaces
• Utilizing search engines for reconnaissance
• Gathering intelligence via WHOIS, DNS, and IP records
• Footprinting websites and organizations
• Reconnaissance through email and social media
• Discovering cloud and network infrastructure
• OSINT tools and associated techniques
• AI-assisted reconnaissance and data analysis

Scanning Networks

• Network scanning concepts and approaches
• Discovering hosts and scanning ports
• Executing TCP, UDP, and ICMP scans
• Identifying services and operating systems
• Performing banner grabbing
• Mapping network topology
• Conducting vulnerability scans
• Considering firewalls and IDS
• Using scanning tools and automation
• AI-assisted network analysis

Enumeration

• Enumeration concepts and methods
• Enumerating Windows and Linux systems
• NetBIOS and SMB enumeration
• SNMP enumeration
• LDAP and directory services enumeration
• DNS and SMTP enumeration
• Enumerating users, groups, and shares
• Active Directory reconnaissance
• Countermeasures against enumeration
• Automated enumeration techniques

Vulnerability Analysis

• Methodologies for vulnerability assessment
• Identifying and classifying vulnerabilities
• Using CVE, CVSS, and vulnerability databases
• Scanning networks and systems for vulnerabilities
• Assessing web and application vulnerabilities
• Cloud and container vulnerability considerations
• Prioritizing vulnerabilities and analyzing risks
• Handling false positives and validation
• The vulnerability management lifecycle
• AI-assisted vulnerability analysis and prioritization

System Hacking

• Methodology for system hacking
• Password and credential attacks
• Techniques for password cracking
• Weaknesses in authentication and authorization
• Privilege escalation techniques
• Foundations of exploitation
• Maintaining persistent access
• File and system hiding techniques
• Covering tracks
• Post-exploitation on Windows and Linux
• AI-assisted exploitation and attack-path analysis

Malware Threats

• Concepts and classifications of malware
• Viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, and spyware
• Fileless and polymorphic malware
• Rootkits and backdoors
• Methods of malware delivery
• Command-and-control concepts
• Fundamentals of malware analysis
• Techniques to evade anti-malware
• Malware detection and prevention
• AI-enabled malware and defensive countermeasures

Sniffing

• Fundamentals of network sniffing
• Packet capture and traffic analysis
• Passive and active sniffing methods
• Protocol analysis
• ARP poisoning and MAC attacks
• Attacks based on DNS and DHCP
• Intercepting credentials
• Man-in-the-middle concepts
• Countermeasures to sniffing
• Securing network communication
• AI-assisted packet and traffic analysis

Social Engineering

• Principles of social engineering
• Human-based and technical-based attacks
• Phishing, spear phishing, and whaling
• Vishing, smishing, and other communication-based attacks
• Impersonation and pretexting
• Baiting and physical social engineering
• The social engineering attack lifecycle
• Awareness and security testing
• Detection and prevention strategies
• Threats from AI-generated phishing and social engineering

Denial-of-Service

• Fundamentals of DoS and DDoS
• Types of denial-of-service attacks
• Network and application-layer attacks
• Resource exhaustion
• Distributed attack infrastructure
• Botnets and amplification concepts
• DDoS detection and monitoring
• Mitigation and prevention techniques
• Incident response for DoS attacks
• AI-assisted attack detection and response

Session Hijacking

• Fundamentals of session management
• Session identification and authentication
• Techniques for session hijacking
• Cookie and token-based attacks
• TCP/IP session hijacking
• Browser and web session attacks
• Man-in-the-middle attacks
• Session fixation
• Session security controls
• Detection and mitigation techniques

Evading IDS, Firewalls, and Honeypots

• Intrusion detection and prevention systems
• Firewall architectures and technologies
• Honeypots and deception technologies
• Network security monitoring
• Concepts for evading IDS/IPS
• Techniques for firewall evasion
• Traffic fragmentation and obfuscation concepts
• Proxy and tunneling concepts
• Detecting honeypots and countermeasures
• Defensive monitoring and hardening
• AI-assisted anomaly detection and adaptive defense

Hacking Web Servers

• Web server architecture and technologies
• Footprinting web servers
• Enumerating web servers
• Common web server vulnerabilities
• Misconfigurations and insecure defaults
• Weaknesses in authentication and access control
• Directory traversal and related attacks
• Concepts in web server attacks and exploitation
• Hardening web servers
• Patch and configuration management
• Web server monitoring and incident response

Hacking Web Applications

• Web application architecture
• Attack surfaces of web applications
• Client-side and server-side vulnerabilities
• Attacks on authentication and authorization
• Vulnerabilities in session management
• Weaknesses in input validation
• Cross-site scripting
• Cross-site request forgery
• File inclusion and upload vulnerabilities
• Fundamentals of API security
• Methodologies for web application security testing
• Secure coding and mitigation techniques
• AI-assisted web application security testing

SQL Injection

• Fundamentals of databases and SQL
• Concepts and attack vectors for SQL injection
• Concepts of authentication bypass
• Error-based, union-based, and blind SQL injection
• Database fingerprinting
• Concepts of data extraction
• Methodologies for SQL injection testing
• Automated SQL injection assessment
• Preventing SQL injection
• Using parameterized queries and input validation
• Monitoring database security
• AI-assisted SQL injection detection and analysis

Hacking Wireless Networks

• Fundamentals of wireless networking
• Wi-Fi standards and security protocols
• Wireless reconnaissance
• Discovering wireless networks
• Weaknesses in authentication and encryption
• Analyzing wireless traffic
• Concepts of rogue access points and evil-twin
• Wireless denial-of-service concepts
• Fundamentals of Bluetooth security
• Methodologies for wireless security testing
• Hardening and monitoring wireless networks
• Secure wireless configuration

Hacking Mobile Platforms

• Mobile security architecture
• Security concepts for Android and iOS
• Attack surfaces of mobile applications
• Reconnaissance for mobile applications
• Insecure data storage
• Weaknesses in authentication and authorization
• Security of mobile communication
• API and backend security
• Mobile malware
• Security testing for mobile applications
• Security controls for mobile devices
• Hardening mobile applications

IoT and OT Hacking

• Fundamentals of IoT and OT security
• IoT architecture and communication protocols
• Discovering and reconnoitering IoT devices
• IoT vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
• Firmware and hardware security concepts
• IoT authentication and access control
• Industrial Control Systems and OT environments
• Fundamentals of SCADA security
• Attack surfaces and risks in OT
• Vulnerability assessment for IoT/OT
• Defensive monitoring and segmentation
• Secure IoT and OT architecture
• AI-enabled security considerations for IoT and OT

Cloud Computing

• Fundamentals of cloud computing
• Cloud service and deployment models
• Cloud architecture and shared responsibility
• Cloud reconnaissance and attack surfaces
• Identity and access management
• Security of cloud storage and databases
• Security of virtualization and containers
• Cloud misconfigurations
• Cloud network security
• Concepts of cloud privilege escalation
• Cloud vulnerability assessment
• Cloud logging and monitoring
• Cloud incident response
• AI-assisted cloud security analysis

Cryptography

• Fundamentals and terminology of cryptography
• Symmetric and asymmetric encryption
• Hashing and message integrity
• Digital signatures and certificates
• Public Key Infrastructure
• Key management and cryptographic protocols
• Common cryptographic vulnerabilities
• Password hashing and secure authentication
• SSL/TLS security concepts
• Cryptographic attacks and weaknesses
• Best practices for encryption implementation
• Cryptography in cloud, mobile, and IoT environments
• Emerging security considerations in cryptography and AI