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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

By : Furqan Khan
Book Image

Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

By: Furqan Khan

Overview of this book

With the current technological and infrastructural shift, penetration testing is no longer a process-oriented activity. Modern-day penetration testing demands lots of automation and innovation; the only language that dominates all its peers is Python. Given the huge number of tools written in Python, and its popularity in the penetration testing space, this language has always been the first choice for penetration testers. Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python walks you through advanced Python programming constructs. Once you are familiar with the core concepts, you’ll explore the advanced uses of Python in the domain of penetration testing and optimization. You’ll then move on to understanding how Python, data science, and the cybersecurity ecosystem communicate with one another. In the concluding chapters, you’ll study exploit development, reverse engineering, and cybersecurity use cases that can be automated with Python. By the end of this book, you’ll have acquired adequate skills to leverage Python as a helpful tool to pentest and secure infrastructure, while also creating your own custom exploits.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Other Wonders of Python

Cyber security is a vast and dynamically growing field. So far in this book, we have discussed various use cases in which Python comes in handy. The reader can utilize this knowledge to explore further scenarios in which Python can be applied in the cyber security domain. In this concluding chapter, we will try to cover a few other ways in which we can use Python. We will look at the following:

  • Parsing Nessus and Nmap reports with Python
  • Writing custom Linux- and Windows-based keyloggers in Python and sharing logs across the network
  • Parsing Tweeter tweets
  • Extracting browser-saved passwords
  • Antivirus-free persistence shells
  • Bypassing host-based firewalls