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Python Penetration Testing Essentials - Second Edition

By : Mohit Raj
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Python Penetration Testing Essentials - Second Edition

By: Mohit Raj

Overview of this book

This book gives you the skills you need to use Python for penetration testing (pentesting), with the help of detailed code examples. We start by exploring the basics of networking with Python and then proceed to network hacking. Then, you will delve into exploring Python libraries to perform various types of pentesting and ethical hacking techniques. Next, we delve into hacking the application layer, where we start by gathering information from a website. We then move on to concepts related to website hacking—such as parameter tampering, DDoS, XSS, and SQL injection. By reading this book, you will learn different techniques and methodologies that will familiarize you with Python pentesting techniques, how to protect yourself, and how to create automated programs to find the admin console, SQL injection, and XSS attacks.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Information gathering of a website from whois.domaintools.com

Consider a situation where you want to glean all the hyperlinks from a web page. In this section, we will do this by programming. On the other hand, this can also be done manually by viewing the source of the web page. However, that will take some time.

So let's get acquainted with a very beautiful parser called lxml.

Let's see the code:

  • The following modules will be used:
      from lxml.html import fromstring
import requests
  • When you enter the desired website, the request module obtains the data of the website:
      domain = raw_input("Enter the domain : ")
url = 'http://whois.domaintools.com/'+domain
user_agent='wswp'
headers = {'User-Agent': user_agent}
resp = requests.get(url, headers=headers)
html = resp.text
  • The following piece...