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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

Fuzzing Windows applications

Fuzzing, as we discussed in the previous chapter, is a technique used to discover bugs in applications that make the application crash when presented with an input that was not anticipated by the application.

To start off this exercise, let's set up VirtualBox, and use Windows as the operating system. In the lab Windows 7 machine, let's go ahead and install vulnerable software called vulnserver. If you do a Google search for vulnserver download, you will get the link to the vulnerable server.

Let's now load the vulnserver in VirtualBox and run it as shown here:

Let's now try to connect the Linux host machine to the Windows machine to connect to the vul server.

The tool we can use for fuzzing is zzuf, which can be used with Linux-based systems. To check whether the tool is available, run the following command:

Let's see whether...

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