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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

Man in the browser


In this section, we will discuss a new method. As you may already know, all browsers offer to save your username and password when you submit the data into a login page. The next time you visit the same login page, you will see that your username and password are automatically filled in without typing a single letter. Also, there is dedicated third-party software such as LastPass, that can do the same job for you. The point here is that, if the target is using this method to log in, then neither the keylogger nor the clipboard methods will work.

Let's take a quick look. We'll be using the LastPass plugin on the Firefox browser. Open the browser here and go to the Gmail account. We will use the previous clipboard script before logging into the Gmail account:

# Python For Offensive PenTest

# Download Link https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyperclip/1.5.11

# Clipboard Hijacking


import pyperclip
import time

list = [] # we create a list which will store the clipboard content...
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