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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
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Section 3: Malware Development

Monitoring traffic

To see what the user is doing, you can open Wireshark on Kali and select the eth0 interface to see all the traffic going over the network. To see only the traffic originating from the Windows machine, you can set a filter in the filter menu. Use the following filter:

ip.src == 192.168.74.129

This will only display the traffic that originates from the Windows machine. Now, if you were to go to the Windows machine and access a website, you should see the packet arriving in Wireshark:

Figure 5.13 – Wireshark traffic from a Windows machine

In this section, we learned how to poison an ARP table and monitor the network traffic between the victim device and the internet. In the next section, we will learn how this network traffic is encrypted and how this encryption can be broken.