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Python: Penetration Testing for Developers

You're reading from   Python: Penetration Testing for Developers Execute effective tests to identify software vulnerabilities

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Published in Oct 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787128187
Length 650 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Python: Penetration Testing for Developers
Python: Penetration Testing for Developers
Credits
Preface
1. Understanding the Penetration Testing Methodology 2. The Basics of Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER 3. Identifying Targets with Nmap, Scapy, and Python 4. Executing Credential Attacks with Python 5. Exploiting Services with Python 6. Assessing Web Applications with Python 7. Cracking the Perimeter with Python 8. Exploit Development with Python, Metasploit, and Immunity 9. Automating Reports and Tasks with Python 10. Adding Permanency to Python Tools 11. Python with Penetration Testing and Networking 12. Scanning Pentesting 13. Sniffing and Penetration Testing 14. Wireless Pentesting 15. Foot Printing of a Web Server and a Web Application 16. Client-side and DDoS Attacks 17. Pentesting of SQLI and XSS 18. Gathering Open Source Intelligence 19. Enumeration 20. Vulnerability Identification 21. SQL Injection 22. Web Header Manipulation 23. Image Analysis and Manipulation 24. Encryption and Encoding 25. Payloads and Shells 26. Reporting Bibliography
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Arguments and options


There are multiple ways in which arguments can be passed to scripts; we will cover more on this in future chapters, as they are applicable to specific scripts. The simplest way to take arguments is to pass them without options. Arguments are the values passed to scripts to give them some dynamic capability.

Options are flags that represent specific calls to the script, stating the arguments that are going to be provided. In other words, if you want to get the help or usage instructions for a script, you typically pass the -h option. If you write a script that accepts both IP addresses and MAC addresses, you could configure it to use different options to signify the data that is about to be presented to it.

Writing scripts to take options is significantly more detailed, but it is not as hard as people make it out to be. For now, let's just look at basic argument passing. Arguments can be made natively with the sys library and the argv function. When arguments are passed...

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