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Python Penetration Testing Essentials - Second Edition

By : Mohit Raj
Book Image

Python Penetration Testing Essentials - Second Edition

By: Mohit Raj

Overview of this book

This book gives you the skills you need to use Python for penetration testing (pentesting), with the help of detailed code examples. We start by exploring the basics of networking with Python and then proceed to network hacking. Then, you will delve into exploring Python libraries to perform various types of pentesting and ethical hacking techniques. Next, we delve into hacking the application layer, where we start by gathering information from a website. We then move on to concepts related to website hacking—such as parameter tampering, DDoS, XSS, and SQL injection. By reading this book, you will learn different techniques and methodologies that will familiarize you with Python pentesting techniques, how to protect yourself, and how to create automated programs to find the admin console, SQL injection, and XSS attacks.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

Wireless SSID finding and wireless traffic analysis with Python

If you have done wireless testing with Back-Track or Kali Linux, then you will be familiar with the airmon-ng suite. The airmon-ng script is used to enable monitor mode on wireless interfaces. The Monitor mode allows a wireless device to capture frames without having to associate with an AP. We are going to run all our programs on Kali Linux. The following screenshot shows you how to set mon0:

Setting mon0

When you run the airmon-ng script, it gives the wireless card a name, such as wlan0, as shown in the preceding screenshot. The airmon-ng start wlan0 command will start wlan0 in monitor mode, and mon0 captures wireless packets.

Now, let's write our first program, which gives three values: SSID, BSSID, and the channel number. The program name is ssid_finder_raw.py. Let's see the code and explanation as...