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Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By : Fahad Ali Sarwar
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Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch

By: Fahad Ali Sarwar

Overview of this book

Penetration testing enables you to evaluate the security or strength of a computer system, network, or web application that an attacker can exploit. With this book, you'll understand why Python is one of the fastest-growing programming languages for penetration testing. You'll find out how to harness the power of Python and pentesting to enhance your system security. Developers working with Python will be able to put their knowledge and experience to work with this practical guide. Complete with step-by-step explanations of essential concepts and practical examples, this book takes a hands-on approach to help you build your own pentesting tools for testing the security level of systems and networks. You'll learn how to develop your own ethical hacking tools using Python and explore hacking techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in networks and systems. Finally, you'll be able to get remote access to target systems and networks using the tools you develop and modify as per your own requirements. By the end of this ethical hacking book, you'll have developed the skills needed for building cybersecurity tools and learned how to secure your systems by thinking like a hacker.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Nuts and Bolts of Ethical Hacking – The Basics
4
Section 2: Thinking Like a Hacker – Network Information Gathering and Attacks
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Section 3: Malware Development

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned how we can add advanced functionalities to our basic malware. First, we added support for file transfer from the victim to the client, and then we added additional features, such as taking a screenshot from the victim's machine and sending it back to the hacker. Finally, we built our own keylogger. Every day, thousands of pieces of malware are written and antivirus programs try to keep up with them for detection. The advantage of writing your own malware is that it will not be easy and detect them programs to detect this malware since it is written by you and does not yet exist in antivirus databases. This gives you the opportunity for a more successful attack. Using the tools we developed in this chapter will give you an understanding of how you can build more advanced malware and how you can add more features to it as you wish. The skills gained by writing your custom malware will give you opportunities for more stealth attacks and less...