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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)

Packet sniffer in Python

A simple packet sniffer in Python can be created with the help socket module. We can use the raw socket type to get the packets. A raw socket provides access to the underlying protocols, which support socket abstractions. Since raw sockets are part of the internet socket API, they can only be used to generate and receive IP packets.

Getting ready

As some behaviors of the socket module depend on the operating system socket API and there is no uniform API for using a raw socket under a different operating system, we need to use a Linux OS to run this script. So, if you are using Windows or macOS, please make sure to run this script inside a virtual Linux environment. Also, most operating systems require...