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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)

MAC flooder

We can fill the MAC address store of a router by sending random Ethernet traffic over the network. This may lead to the malfunction of the switch, and may start sending all the network traffic to everyone connected to the router, or it may fail.

How to do it...

Here are the steps to flood MAC address store in a router:

  1. Create a mac-flooder.py file and open in your editor.
  2. Import the required modules:
import sys
from scapy.all import *  
  1. Define the interface to flood. We could also get it from the arguments:
interface = "en0"  
  1. Create the packets with random MAC IDs and random IPs:
pkt = Ether(src=RandMAC("*:*:*:*:*:*"), dst=RandMAC("*:*:*:*:*:*")) / \
        IP(src=RandIP(&quot...