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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

Replicating Metasploit's screen capturing

In this section, we will automate capturing a screenshot from the target machine and retrieve it over HTTP reverse shell. Getting a screenshot from the target Desktop can be useful to see what programs and activities are going on on the target side. In Metasploit Meterpreter, there is a function called screengrab(), which will take a snapshot from the target machine and transfer it back to the attacker machine. So here, we will do something similar in our existing HTTP shell. For this purpose, we will be using a library called Pillow at the target. This is a high-level image library in Python. The installation is quite simple. You just need to run pip install Pillow via cmd.

Before doing that, just make sure that you have internet access. Once we install this library, I will go to Devices|Network|Network Settings...

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