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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)

IP range/network scanner

We can use ICMP packets to create a network scanner. As ICMP is not an IP protocol, we have to access the network stack directly. So, here we can use Scapy to generate an ICMP packet and send it to the host.

Getting ready

To start the scraping, we have to install the required Python packages. Here we use Scapy for the packet generation. To install Scapy, we can use pip. As we are using Python 3, make sure to install Scapy for Python 3. Also install its dependency module, netifaces:

pip3 install scapy-python3
pip3 install netifaces  

How to do it...

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