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Learning Penetration Testing with Python

You're reading from   Learning Penetration Testing with Python Utilize Python scripting to execute effective and efficient penetration tests

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785282324
Length 314 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Understanding the Penetration Testing Methodology FREE CHAPTER 2. The Basics of Python Scripting 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 Index

Writing a basic buffer overflow exploit


We are going to exploit version 1 of the Free MP3 CD Ripper software program. To do this, we need to download and install the product from this location http://free-mp3-cd-ripper.en.softonic.com/. To take advantage of this program's weakness, we are going to use the following Python script, which will generate a malicious .wav file that can be uploaded into the program. The data will be interpreted and will create an overflow condition that we can observe and attempt to tailor and build an exploit. As mentioned before, we are going to load up a number of different characters into this file so that we can guestimate the relative location of the stored EIP value.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import struct
filename="exploit.wav"
fill ="A"*4000
fill +="B"*1000
fill +="C"*1000
exploit = fill
writeFile = open (filename, "w")
writeFile.write(exploit)
writeFile.close()

This script will fill the malicious wave file with four thousand As, one thousand Bs, and one thousand...

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