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Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch

You're reading from   Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch Think like an ethical hacker, avoid detection, and successfully develop, deploy, detect, and avoid malware

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838829506
Length 214 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Fahad Ali Sarwar Fahad Ali Sarwar
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Nuts and Bolts of Ethical Hacking – The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Hacking FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Getting Started – Setting Up a Lab Environment 4. Section 2: Thinking Like a Hacker – Network Information Gathering and Attacks
5. Chapter 3: Reconnaissance and Information Gathering 6. Chapter 4: Network Scanning 7. Chapter 5: Man in the Middle Attacks 8. Section 3: Malware Development
9. Chapter 6: Malware Development 10. Chapter 7: Advanced Malware 11. Chapter 8: Post Exploitation 12. Chapter 9: System Protection and Perseverance 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating malware

Now that we have seen what the outline of our malware program will look like, let's start writing our hacker and victim programs.

Hacker server

In this section, we will write a program for the hacker server, which will constantly listen for incoming connections originating from the victim's machine to the hacker. Let's go to our Kali machine and create a new project called hacker server. Also, create a new virtual environment, as we have done in previous chapters. We will not require any external library in this section, but it is always a good idea to use virtual environments to keep track of dependencies in our program. Also, create a new file called server.py.

The IP address of our Kali machine is 192.168.74.128, and for the victim's Windows machine, it is 192.168.74.129. Next, we need to select which port we will be listening on for incoming connections. You can select any port above 1024 and less than 65355. However, we will use port...

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