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Python for Offensive PenTest

By : Hussam Khrais
Book Image

Python for Offensive PenTest

By: Hussam Khrais

Overview of this book

Python is an easy-to-learn and cross-platform programming language that has unlimited third-party libraries. Plenty of open source hacking tools are written in Python, which can be easily integrated within your script. This book is packed with step-by-step instructions and working examples to make you a skilled penetration tester. It is divided into clear bite-sized chunks, so you can learn at your own pace and focus on the areas of most interest to you. This book will teach you how to code a reverse shell and build an anonymous shell. You will also learn how to hack passwords and perform a privilege escalation on Windows with practical examples. You will set up your own virtual hacking environment in VirtualBox, which will help you run multiple operating systems for your testing environment. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to code your own scripts and mastered ethical hacking from scratch.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 2. Advanced Scriptable Shell

The problem with the back door, which we created in the previous chapter, is that if the attacker IP changes we don't have a built-in mechanism to inform our target that it should connect to the new IP address. In this chapter we will look into a method that lets you keep a fixed reserved name for your attacker machine even if its IP changes.

The following are the topics that will be covered in this chapter: 

  • Dynamic DNS
  • Interacting with Twitter
  • Replicating Metasploit's screen capturing
  • Replicating Metasploit searching for content
  • Integrating a low-level port scanner