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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
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Reverse engineering


There are three main kinds of reverse engineering analysis:

  • Static analysis: Analysis of the contents of a binary file. This helps to determine the structure of the executable portions and print out readable portions to get more details about the purpose of the executable.

  • Dynamic analysis: This type will execute the binary with or without attaching a debugger to discover what the purpose is and how the executable works.

  • Hybrid analysis: This is a mixture of static and dynamic analysis. Repeating between static analyses, followed by a dynamic debugging, will give better intuition about the program.