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Python for Offensive PenTest

You're reading from   Python for Offensive PenTest A practical guide to ethical hacking and penetration testing using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838979
Length 176 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hussam Khrais Hussam Khrais
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Warming up – Your First Antivirus-Free Persistence Shell 2. Advanced Scriptable Shell FREE CHAPTER 3. Password Hacking 4. Catch Me If You Can! 5. Miscellaneous Fun in Windows 6. Abuse of Cryptography by Malware 7. Other Books You May Enjoy

Privilege escalation – backdooring legitimate windows service

In this section, we will code a malicious service file to replace the legitimate one. Now, in order to replace the service file, our new malicious service file should be able to communicate with Windows service control manager. For instance, when you manually Start, Stop, Pause, or Resume the service, the Windows service control manager will send a signal or order to the EXE service file and in return, the service file should usually obey the service control manager's order. If, for any reason, the service file or the EXE file did not understand that signal, then the service control manager will fail to start the service and you will get an error saying The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.

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# Python For Offensive PenTest

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