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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 FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Scriptable Shell 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

Replicating Metasploit searching for content

We will now code a Python function that will search into target directories and provide us with a list of file locations for a certain specific file extension. For instance, say we need to search for a PDF or document file on the target machine; instead of checking each directory, we will add a new function to automatically do the job for us. This is very useful when you first land in a target machine and try to explore as much data as possible such as documents, PDF files, and so on. The coding part is quite easy. We will use the Python os library to do the job for us. So, as usual, I have added a new if statement to specify that if we get a search keyword we will do the following:

# Python For Offensive PenTest

# Searching for Content

import requests
import subprocess
import os
import time

while True:

req = requests.get('http...
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