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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

Integrating low-level port scanner

During penetration testing, sometimes you encounter a scenario where your client is using some kind of an internal server that is not accessible through the internet. And just because of this they think it's secure. In this section, we will see how we can integrate a simple port scanner with our script to prevent a possible attack.

Usually, once you get into your target machine, you start looking for other possible targets. For example, if we were able to access machine A, then we can extend our attack and scan machine B to see what ports and services are running on that machine. The other usages are to make the target scan an online server on our behalf to hide our activities. Now, let's get to the coding part. We will build a basic low-level scanner. It's named low-level because we will use the built-in socket library and then...

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Python for Offensive PenTest
Published in: Apr 2018
Publisher: Packt
ISBN-13: 9781788838979
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