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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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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

Vulnerability Scanner Python - Part 2

When we talk of service scanning using open source scripts, the first thing that comes to mind is making use of various NSE scripts to get the service versions and associated vulnerabilities with the configured services. Now, in a typical manual network penetration test, we not only make use of NSE scripts to get the job done, we also use various Ruby, Perl, and Bash scripts, and Java class files. We also run Metasploit auxiliary modules for service scanning and exploit modules to exploit vulnerabilities and to create a POC. We may also run various Kali tools, such as Nikto for web scanning, or SQLmap, w3af, and Wireshark to capture clear-text usernames and passwords for improperly configured FTP or SSH services. All of these tools and scripts produce a huge information pool that a tester needs to enumerate manually and consolidate. False...

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