You're reading from Python for Security and Networking Leverage Python modules and tools in securing your network and applications

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837637553

Length 586 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Python

Concepts

Information Security

Author (1):

José Manuel Ortega

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Table of Contents (23) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Python Environment and System Programming Tools

2. Working with Python Scripting FREE CHAPTER

3. System Programming Packages

4. Section 2: Network Scripting and Packet Sniffing with Python

5. Socket Programming

6. HTTP Programming and Web Authentication

7. Analyzing Network Traffic and Packet Sniffing

8. Section 3: Server Scripting and Port Scanning with Python

9. Gathering Information from Servers with OSINT Tools

10. Interacting with FTP, SFTP, and SSH Servers

11. Working with Nmap Scanner

12. Section 4: Server Vulnerabilities and Security in Web Applications

13. Interacting with Vulnerability Scanners

14. Interacting with Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications

15. Obtain Information from Vulnerabilities Databases

16. Section 5: Python Forensics

17. Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers

18. Python Tools for Brute-Force Attacks

19. Cryptography and Code Obfuscation

20. Assessments – Answers to the End-of-Chapter Questions

21. Other Books You May Enjoy

22. Index

Gathering Information from Servers with OSINT Tools

This chapter will introduce you to the modules that allow extracting information from publicly exposed servers using Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) tools. The information collected, such as a domain, a hostname, or a web service, will be very useful while carrying out the pentesting or audit process.

We will review tools like Google Dorks, SpiderFoot, dnspython, DNSRecon, and other tools for applying fuzzing processes with Python. OSINT reconnaissance and application fuzzing have different purposes. OSINT is typically a passive exercise aimed at gathering information that can then be leveraged for attacks, while fuzzing consists of automated injection attacks. At this point, we could use OSINT techniques to help focus fuzzing / automated attacks.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter: