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Python Penetration Testing Essentials

You're reading from   Python Penetration Testing Essentials Techniques for ethical hacking with Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789138962
Length 230 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Mohit Raj Mohit Raj
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Python with Penetration Testing and Networking 2. Scanning Pentesting FREE CHAPTER 3. Sniffing and Penetration Testing 4. Network Attacks and Prevention 5. Wireless Pentesting 6. Honeypot – Building Traps for Attackers 7. Foot Printing a Web Server and a Web Application 8. Client-Side and DDoS Attacks 9. Pentesting SQL and XSS 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Fake web server reply

In this section, you will learn how to create a fake web server signature. This is the application layer code. This section's code has no relation to the previous code. In order to get the server signature or banner grabbing, I am going to use the ID Serve tool.

Let's see the fake_webserver.py code:

  • Use the following modules in the program. The logger1 module is used to create a log file. You will see the code of logger1 later:
   from BaseHTTPServer import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
import logger1
  • Look at the following piece of code carefully. The fakewebserver class inherits the BaseHTTPRequestHandler class. The send_response method is overriding the method of the BaseHTTPRequestHandler class because we are sending our custom message as self.send_header('Server', "mohitraj"). The log_date_time_string and send_header...
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