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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

By : Rejah Rehim
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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

By: Rejah Rehim

Overview of this book

Penetration testing is the use of tools and code to attack a system in order to assess its vulnerabilities to external threats. Python allows pen testers to create their own tools. Since Python is a highly valued pen-testing language, there are many native libraries and Python bindings available specifically for pen-testing tasks. Python Penetration Testing Cookbook begins by teaching you how to extract information from web pages. You will learn how to build an intrusion detection system using network sniffing techniques. Next, you will find out how to scan your networks to ensure performance and quality, and how to carry out wireless pen testing on your network to avoid cyber attacks. After that, we’ll discuss the different kinds of network attack. Next, you’ll get to grips with designing your own torrent detection program. We’ll take you through common vulnerability scenarios and then cover buffer overflow exploitation so you can detect insecure coding. Finally, you’ll master PE code injection methods to safeguard your network.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

ARP cache poisoning

As we know, systems on a TCP/IP LAN identify and communicate with each other via the MAC addresses of their network adapters. Each system keeps a list of systems and their MAC addresses for reference, known as the ARP cache. If possible, we need to spoof the cache of a machine with a wrong MAC address for another machine. All communication to that machine with the spoofed MAC address from the machine will be directed to the attached machine. So, ARP cache poisoning is the method of tricking a machine to save the wrong data about an IP address in its ARP table.

Getting ready

As we are performing a type of man-in-the-middle attack (getting the data from another device connected to the same network), we have...