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

Capturing and injecting packets with scapy

The analysis of network traffic, which are the packets that are exchanged between two hosts that can be intercepted, could help us identify the details when we know the details of the systems that participate in the communication. The message and the duration of the communication are some of the valuable information that an attacker who is listening in the network medium can obtain.

Introduction to scapy

Scapy is a module written in Python to manipulate data packages with support for multiple network protocols. It allows the creation and modification of network packets of various types, implements functions to passively capture and sniff packets, and then executes actions on these packets. I recommend using scapy on a Linux system, as it was designed with Linux in mind.

The newest version of scapy does support Windows, but for the purpose of this chapter, I assume you are using a Linux distribution that has a fully functioning...