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Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By : Fahad Ali Sarwar
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Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By: Fahad Ali Sarwar

Overview of this book

Penetration testing enables you to evaluate the security or strength of a computer system, network, or web application that an attacker can exploit. With this book, you'll understand why Python is one of the fastest-growing programming languages for penetration testing. You'll find out how to harness the power of Python and pentesting to enhance your system security. Developers working with Python will be able to put their knowledge and experience to work with this practical guide. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, this book takes a hands-on approach to help you build your own pentesting tools for testing the security level of systems and networks. You'll learn how to develop your own ethical hacking tools using Python and explore hacking techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in networks and systems. Finally, you'll be able to get remote access to target systems and networks using the tools you develop and modify as per your own requirements. By the end of this ethical hacking book, you'll have developed the skills needed for building cybersecurity tools and learned how to secure your systems by thinking like a hacker.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Nuts and Bolts of Ethical Hacking – The Basics
4
Section 2: Thinking Like a Hacker – Network Information Gathering and Attacks
8
Section 3: Malware Development

Chapter 7: Advanced Malware

In the previous chapter, we learned how to create a very simple malware that executes Windows commands sent by a hacker and returns the results of these commands. This program is very limited in terms of its ability to just execute commands. Ideally, for a Remote Access Tool, we would want to have much more advanced functionalities than this. This chapter will give you a basic idea of what more advanced functionalities you can write inside your malware program. We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • File transfer
  • Stealing Wi-Fi credentials
  • Taking screenshots