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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

By : Rejah Rehim
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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

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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.
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Dictionary attack on hidden SSIDs

With hidden SSIDs, we could run a dictionary attack to identify the hidden SSIDs. For that, we will iterate through a list of SSIDs and send a broadcast packet with a particular SSID. If the SSID exists, the access point will respond with a packet. So, we could start the SSID sniffer we created in the previous recipe and wait for the response from the access point while running the brute force attack with the SSIDs.

How to do it...

Here are the steps to write a script that can be used to run a dictionary attack on SSIDs:

  1. As usual, create a new dictionary-attack-ssid.py file and open it in an editor.
  2. Load all the required modules, and initialize the variables:
from scapy.all import *
senderMac...
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