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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Penetration Testing Cookbook Practical recipes on implementing information gathering, network security, intrusion detection, and post-exploitation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784399771
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rejah Rehim Rejah Rehim
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Preface 1. Why Python in Penetration Testing? FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Python Environment 3. Web Scraping with Python 4. Data Parsing with Python 5. Web Scraping with Scrapy and BeautifulSoup 6. Network Scanning with Python 7. Network Sniffing with Python 8. Scapy Basics 9. Wi-Fi Sniffing 10. Layer 2 Attacks 11. TCP/IP Attacks 12. Introduction to Exploit Development 13. Windows Exploit Development 14. Linux Exploit Development

ARP cache poisoning

As we know, systems on a TCP/IP LAN identify and communicate with each other via the MAC addresses of their network adapters. Each system keeps a list of systems and their MAC addresses for reference, known as the ARP cache. If possible, we need to spoof the cache of a machine with a wrong MAC address for another machine. All communication to that machine with the spoofed MAC address from the machine will be directed to the attached machine. So, ARP cache poisoning is the method of tricking a machine to save the wrong data about an IP address in its ARP table.

Getting ready

As we are performing a type of man-in-the-middle attack (getting the data from another device connected to the same network), we have...

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