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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

Python in Firefox EXE


In this section, we will enhance our previous PoC script to match the following:

  1. Once you get a pass in the memory, print out the memory dump and stop debugging to minimize performance issues
  2. Export your script into a standalone EXE file, so it can be used in the postexploitation phase (using Py2exe)
  3. Test it against antivirus
  4. Try and make sure that it's fully functional by testing it while logging into Twitter, Gmail, PayPal, and Facebook accounts

Note

In the callback function, add a new if statement to terminate the debugging once we get a pass keyword. It's always a good thing before sending this script to your target, to test it locally first. To do so, you may need to change the setting in the py2exe setup file to the console mode.

To test the script, we will log in to the Facebook account:

  1. Go to the login page of Facebook. As you will see, LastPass has entered our username and password for us.
  2. Run our script. You will get the Firefox process ID and the memory address for...
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