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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

By : Furqan Khan
Book Image

Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

By: Furqan Khan

Overview of this book

With the current technological and infrastructural shift, penetration testing is no longer a process-oriented activity. Modern-day penetration testing demands lots of automation and innovation; the only language that dominates all its peers is Python. Given the huge number of tools written in Python, and its popularity in the penetration testing space, this language has always been the first choice for penetration testers. Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python walks you through advanced Python programming constructs. Once you are familiar with the core concepts, you’ll explore the advanced uses of Python in the domain of penetration testing and optimization. You’ll then move on to understanding how Python, data science, and the cybersecurity ecosystem communicate with one another. In the concluding chapters, you’ll study exploit development, reverse engineering, and cybersecurity use cases that can be automated with Python. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired adequate skills to leverage Python as a helpful tool to pentest and secure infrastructure, while also creating your own custom exploits.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Setup and installations

The operating system to be used is Ubuntu 16.04. The code is tested on this version, but readers are free to use any other version.

Install the prerequisites required for this chapter by running the following commands:

pip install django==1.6
pip install beautifulsoup4
pip install requests
pip install exrex
pip install html5lib
pip install psutil
sudo apt-get install sqlitebrowser
It should be noted that the code is tried and tested on Python 2.7. It is recommended for the readers to try the code on the same version of Python, but it should work with Python 3 as well. There might be a few syntactic changes with regard to print statements.