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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

Firefox API hooking with Immunity Debugger


Firefox uses a function called PR_Write to write data into a TCP socket. This function is located inside a DLL module called nss3.dll. For this demonstration, we need to prepare a Twitter account. Once that account is created and you are logged in, sign out of the account and then log in again. Since we use LastPass, the login credentials will already have been entered by LastPass. Once we click on the Log in button, what will happen behind the scenes?

Behind the scenes, Firefox will load the nss3.dll library and call the PR_Write function to submit the data (login ID and password). Once Firefox performs these steps, we'll set up a breakpoint and intercept traffic. Let's start by installing theImmunity Debuggersoftware from https://debugger.immunityinc.com/ID_register.py. The installation part is quite straightforward. Immunity Debugger will get the process ID of the browser process and attach a debugger to the PID in one shot. We just need to attach...

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