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Python Penetration Testing Essentials

You're reading from   Python Penetration Testing Essentials Employ the power of Python to get the best out of pentesting

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398583
Length 178 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mohit Raj Mohit Raj
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Preface 1. Python with Penetration Testing and Networking FREE CHAPTER 2. Scanning Pentesting 3. Sniffing and Penetration Testing 4. Wireless Pentesting 5. Foot Printing of a Web Server and a Web Application 6. Client-side and DDoS Attacks 7. Pentesting of SQLI and XSS Index

Understanding the SQL injection attack by a Python script


All SQL injection attacks can be carried out manually. However, you can use Python programming to automate the attack. If you are a good pentester and know how to perform attacks manually, then you can make your own program check this.

In order to obtain the username and password of a website, we must have the URL of the admin or login console page. The client does not provide the link to the admin console page on the website.

Here, Google fails to provide the login page for a particular website. Our first step is to find the admin console page. I remembered that, years ago, I used the URL http://192.168.0.4/login.php, http://192.168.0.4/login.html. Now, web developers have become smart, and they use different names to hide the login page.

Consider that I have more than 300 links to try. If I try it manually, it would take around 1 to 2 days to obtain the web page.

Let's take a look at a small program, login1.py, to find the login page...

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