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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788838979

Length 176 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Ethical Hacking

Author (1):

Hussam Khrais

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Table of Contents (8) Chapters

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

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Antivirus free keylogger

In this section, we will code a simple software keylogger, purely in Python. To do so, we will be using a library called pyHook. The pyHook library wraps the low-level mouse and keyboard hooks in Windows. As per the pyHook documentation, any application that wishes to receive notification from a global input event must have a Windows message pump. For this, we need another library, called pywin.

So, let's start by installing these libraries.

Installing pyHook and pywin

You can download the pyHook library from http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyhook/files/pyhook/1.5.1/ and install it easily following the on-screen instructions.

Note

Make sure that you do not have another Python instance running in the background or you will get an error during installation.

The pywin library can also be installed in the same manner. You can download the library from https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/files/pywin32/Build%20219/.

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Authors (1)

Khrais

Khrais

Hussam is a Cloud Security Engineer at Amazon AWS and he loves cybersecurity and Python.

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