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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.

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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Preface
Preface
Who this book is for
What this book covers
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Section 1: The Nuts and Bolts of Ethical Hacking – The Basics
Section 1: The Nuts and Bolts of Ethical Hacking – The Basics
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Hacking
Chapter 1: Introduction to Hacking
What's all the fuss about hackers?
What is hacking?
Becoming a successful hacker
Types of hackers
Hacking phases and methodology
Careers in cybersecurity
Types of attacks
Summary
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Chapter 2: Getting Started – Setting Up a Lab Environment
Chapter 2: Getting Started – Setting Up a Lab Environment
Technical requirements
Setting up VirtualBox
Installing virtual OSes
Installing Python
Integrated development environment
Setting up networking
Updating Kali
Using virtual environments
Summary
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Section 2: Thinking Like a Hacker – Network Information Gathering and Attacks
Section 2: Thinking Like a Hacker – Network Information Gathering and Attacks
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Chapter 3: Reconnaissance and Information Gathering
Chapter 3: Reconnaissance and Information Gathering
What is a computer network?
Components of a basic computer network
Classifying network
Network stack
Network entities
Protection
Changing our MAC address
Summary
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Chapter 4: Network Scanning
Chapter 4: Network Scanning
Introduction to networking
Introduction to Scapy
Network scanner using Scapy
Summary
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Chapter 5: Man in the Middle Attacks
Chapter 5: Man in the Middle Attacks
Why do we need ARP?
Building an ARP spoof program
Monitoring traffic
Encrypted traffic
Restoring ARP tables manually
Decrypting the network traffic
Summary
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Section 3: Malware Development
Section 3: Malware Development
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Chapter 6: Malware Development
Chapter 6: Malware Development
Understanding RATs
Socket programming in Python
Creating malware
Running commands remotely on the victim's machine
Navigating directories
Summary
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Chapter 7: Advanced Malware
Chapter 7: Advanced Malware
Building a keylogger file transfer
Taking screenshots
Keylogger
Summary
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Chapter 8: Post Exploitation
Chapter 8: Post Exploitation
Packaging the malware
Understanding trojans
Attack over a public IP
Cracking passwords
Stealing passwords
Creating botnets
Summary
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Chapter 9: System Protection and Perseverance
Chapter 9: System Protection and Perseverance
Persistence system protection
Bypassing an IDS
Persistence
Summary
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Understanding RATs

RATs have been widely used in cybersecurity and there are a lot of popular RATs available. Some hackers even offer customized and hard-to-detect RATs to be used to gain access to a victim's computer. In its simplest form, an RAT is a program that creates a network connection with another computer and performs an action. RATs can be legitimate software, such as a common commercial software such as TeamViewer, which is often used by IT professionals to diagnose remote computers and to detect problems. However, these programs can also be used by hackers to get control of the victim's machine, so you should be very careful in how you use these programs.

In its simplest form, an RAT is a pair of programs. One program runs on the victim, while the other program runs on the attacker's machine. There are two main configurations in which these programs work depending on who initiates the communication. These are defined as follows:

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