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Python Penetration Testing Essentials

You're reading from   Python Penetration Testing Essentials Employ the power of Python to get the best out of pentesting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398583
Length 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohit Raj Mohit Raj
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Preface 1. Python with Penetration Testing and Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Scanning Pentesting 3. Sniffing and Penetration Testing 4. Wireless Pentesting 5. Foot Printing of a Web Server and a Web Application 6. Client-side and DDoS Attacks 7. Pentesting of SQLI and XSS Index

Learning about packet crafting

This is a technique by which a hacker or pentester can create customized packets. By using a customized packet, a hacker can perform many tasks such as probing firewall rule sets, port scan, and the behavior of the operating system. Lots of tools are available for packet crafting, such as Hping, Colasoft packet builder, and so on. Packet crafting is a skill. You can perform it with no tools as you have Python.

First, we create Ethernet packets and then send them to the victim. Let's take a look at the entire code of eth.py and then understand it line by line:

import socket
s = socket.socket(socket.PF_PACKET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.ntohs(0x0800))
s.bind(("eth0",socket.htons(0x0800)))
sor = '\x00\x0c\x29\x4f\x8e\x35'
des ='\x00\x0C\x29x2E\x84\x7A'
code ='\x08\x00'
eth = des+sor+code
s.send(eth)

The s = socket.socket(socket.PF_PACKET, socket.SOCK_RAW, socket.ntohs(0x0800)) has already been seen by you in the packet sniffer...

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