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Product type Course

Published in Oct 2016

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787128187

Length 650 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (6):

Christopher Duffy

Mohit Raj

Dave Mound

Terry Ip

Cameron Buchanan

Andrew Mabbitt

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Table of Contents (32) Chapters

Python: Penetration Testing for Developers

Credits

Preface

1. Understanding the Penetration Testing Methodology FREE CHAPTER

2. The Basics of Python Scripting

3. Identifying Targets with Nmap, Scapy, and Python

4. Executing Credential Attacks with Python

5. Exploiting Services with Python

6. Assessing Web Applications with Python

7. Cracking the Perimeter with Python

8. Exploit Development with Python, Metasploit, and Immunity

9. Automating Reports and Tasks with Python

10. Adding Permanency to Python Tools

11. Python with Penetration Testing and Networking

12. Scanning Pentesting

13. Sniffing and Penetration Testing

14. Wireless Pentesting

15. Foot Printing of a Web Server and a Web Application

16. Client-side and DDoS Attacks

17. Pentesting of SQLI and XSS

18. Gathering Open Source Intelligence

19. Enumeration

20. Vulnerability Identification

21. SQL Injection

22. Web Header Manipulation

23. Image Analysis and Manipulation

24. Encryption and Encoding

25. Payloads and Shells

26. Reporting

Bibliography

Index

General socket methods

The general socket methods are as follows:

socket.recv(bufsize): This method receives a TCP message from the socket. The bufsize argument defines the maximum data it can receive at any one time.
socket.recvfrom(bufsize): This method receives data from the socket. The method returns a pair of values: the first value gives the received data, and the second value gives the address of the socket sending the data.
socket.recv_into(buffer): This method receives data less than or equal to buffer. The buffer parameter is created by the bytearray() method. We will discuss it in an example later.
socket.recvfrom_into(buffer): This method obtains data from the socket and writes it into the buffer. The return value is a pair (nbytes, address), where nbytes is the number of bytes received, and the address is the address of the socket sending the data.
Note
Be careful while using the socket.recv from_into(buffer) method in older versions of Python. Buffer overflow vulnerability has...