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Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Penetration Testing with Python Enhance your ethical hacking skills to build automated and intelligent systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788990820
Length 502 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Furqan Khan Furqan Khan
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Python 2. Building Python Scripts FREE CHAPTER 3. Concept Handling 4. Advanced Python Modules 5. Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 1 6. Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 2 7. Machine Learning and Cybersecurity 8. Automating Web Application Scanning - Part 1 9. Automated Web Application Scanning - Part 2 10. Building a Custom Crawler 11. Reverse Engineering Linux Applications 12. Reverse Engineering Windows Applications 13. Exploit Development 14. Cyber Threat Intelligence 15. Other Wonders of Python 16. Assessments 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Exploiting buffer overflows in Windows

There is a known buffer overflow vulnerability in the SLMail 5.5.0 Mail Server software. Let's download the application (from the following URL: https://slmail.software.informer.com/5.5/) and install it in Windows by double-clicking the exe installer. Once installed, run it inside a Windows 7 VM, as shown here:

Let's now attach our running program to an immunity debugger and use a simple Python fuzzer to crash the program, as shown here:

The following screenshot depicts the loaded code once we have clicked on Attach:

Let's use a simple fuzzer written in Python to try to break this code:

Now, let's run the code to see where it breaks the email application and what the buffer values at the time of the crash are:

It can be seen that somewhere between byte number 2700 and 2900 the access violation exception occurs...

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