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Effective Python Penetration Testing

By : Rejah Rehim
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Effective Python Penetration Testing

By: Rejah Rehim

Overview of this book

Penetration testing is a practice of testing a computer system, network, or web application to find weaknesses in security that an attacker can exploit. Effective Python Penetration Testing will help you utilize your Python scripting skills to safeguard your networks from cyberattacks. We will begin by providing you with an overview of Python scripting and penetration testing. You will learn to analyze network traffic by writing Scapy scripts and will see how to fingerprint web applications with Python libraries such as ProxMon and Spynner. Moving on, you will find out how to write basic attack scripts, and will develop debugging and reverse engineering skills with Python libraries. Toward the end of the book, you will discover how to utilize cryptography toolkits in Python and how to automate Python tools and libraries.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Effective Python Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Chapter 3. Application Fingerprinting with Python

One important step during web application security assessment is fingerprinting. As a security researcher/pentester, we have to be well-versed at fingerprinting, which gives lot of information about underlying technology like software or framework version, web server info, OS and many more. This helps us to discover all the well-known vulnerabilities that are affecting the application and server.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Web scraping

  • E-mail gathering

  • OS fingerprinting

  • EXIF data extraction

  • Application fingerprinting