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Mastering Python for Networking and Security
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Preface
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Working with Python Scripting
Technical requirements Programming and installing Python
Introducing Python scripting
Why choose Python? Multi-platform Object-Oriented Programming
Obtaining and installing Python
Installing Python on Windows Installing Python for Linux
Python collections
Lists
Reversing a List Comprehension lists
Tuples Dictionaries
Python functions and managing exceptions
Python functions Managing exceptions 
Python as an OOP language
Inheritance
The OMSTD methodology and STB Module for Python scripting
Python packages and modules
What is a module in Python? Difference Between a Python Module and a Python Package
Passing parameters in Python Managing dependencies in a Python project
Generating the requirements.txt file
Working with virtual environments
Using virtualenv and virtualwrapper
The STB (Security Tools Builder) module
The main development environments for script-development
Setting up a development environment Pycharm WingIDE Debugging with WingIDE
Summary Questions Further reading
System Programming Packages
Technical requirements Introducing system modules in python
The system module The operating system module
Contents of the current working directory Determining the operating system
Subprocess module
Working with the filesystem in Python
Accessing files and directories
Recursing through directories Checking whether a specific path is a file or directory Checking whether a file or directory exists Creating directories in Python
Reading and writing files in Python
File methods Opening a file With a Context Manager Reading a file line by line
Threads in Python
Introduction to Threads
Types of threads Processes vs Threads
Creating a simple Thread Threading module
Multithreading and concurrency in Python
Introduction to Multithreading Multithreading in Python Limitations with classic python threads Concurrency in python with ThreadPoolExecutor
Creating ThreadPoolExecutor ThreadPoolExecutor in practice Executing ThreadPoolExecutor with Context Manager
Python Socket.io
Introducing WebSockets aiohttp and asyncio Implementing a Server with socket.io
Summary Questions Further reading
Socket Programming
Technical requirements Introduction to sockets
Network sockets in Python The socket module Socket methods
Server socket methods Client socket methods
Basic client with the socket module
Creating a simple TCP client and TCP server
Creating a server and client with sockets Implementing the TCP serverIn this example, we are going to create a multithreaded TCP server. Implementing the TCP client
Creating a simple UDP client and UDP server
Introduction to the UDP protocol UDP client and server with the socket module
Implementing the UDP Server Implementing the UDP client
Resolving IP addresses and domains
Gathering information with sockets Reverse lookup
Practical use cases for sockets
Port scanner with sockets Managing socket exceptions
Summary Questions Further reading
HTTP Programming
Technical requirements HTTP protocol and building HTTP clients in python
Introduction to  the HTTP Protocol Building an HTTP Client with httplib
Building an HTTP Client with urllib2
Introduction to urllib2 Response objects Status codes Checking HTTP headers with urllib2 Using the urllib2 Request class Customizing requests with urllib2
Getting emails from a URL with urllib2 Getting links from a URL with urllib2
Building an HTTP Client with requests
Introduction to requests Requests advantages Making GET Requests with the REST API Making POST Requests with the REST API Making Proxy Requests Managing exceptions with requests
Authentication mechanisms with Python
Authentication with the requests module HTTP Basic authentication HTTP Digest Authentication
Summary Questions Further Reading
Analyzing Network Traffic
Technical requirements Capturing and injecting packets with pcapy
Introduction to pcapy Capturing packets with pcapy Reading headers from packets
Capturing and injecting packets with scapy
What can we do with scapy? Scapy advantages and disadvantages Introduction to scapy Scapy commands Sending packets with scapy Packet-sniffing with scapy Using Lamda functions with scapy
Filtering UDP packets
Port-scanning and traceroute with scapy
Port-scanning with scapy Traceroute command with scapy
Reading pcap files with scapy
Introduction to the PCAP format Reading pcap files with scapy Writing a pcap file Sniffing from a pcap file with scapy
Network Forensic with scapy
Summary Questions Further reading
Gathering Information from Servers
Technical requirements Introduction to gathering information Extracting information from servers with Shodan
Introduction to Shodan Accessing Shodan services Shodan filters Shodan search with python Performing searches by a given host Searching for FTP servers
Using python to obtain server information
Extracting servers banners with python Finding whois information about a server
Getting information on dns servers with DNSPython
DNS protocol DNS servers The DNSPython module
Getting vulnerable addresses in servers with Fuzzing
The Fuzzing process The FuzzDB project Fuzzing with python with pywebfuzz
Summary Questions Further reading
Interacting with FTP, SSH, and SNMP Servers
Technical requirements Connecting with FTP servers
The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) The Python ftplib module Transferring files with FTP Using ftplib to brute force FTP user credentials Building an anonymous FTP scanner with Python
Connecting with SSH servers
The Secure Shell (SSH) protocol Introduction to Paramiko
Installing Paramiko
Establishing SSH connection with Paramiko Running commands with Paramiko SSH connection with brute-force processing SSH connection with pxssh Running a command on a remote SSH server
Connecting with SNMP servers
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) PySNMP
Summary Questions Further reading
Working with Nmap Scanners
Technical requirements Introducing port scanning with Nmap
Introducing to port scanning Scanning types with Nmap
Port scanning with python-nmap
Introduction to python-nmap Installing python-nmap Using python-nmap
Scan modes with python-nmap
Synchronous scanning Asynchronous scanning
Vulnerabilities with Nmap scripts
Executing Nmap scripts to detect vulnerabilities Detecting vulnerabilities in FTP service
Summary Questions Further reading
Connecting with the Metasploit Framework
Technical requirements Introducing the Metasploit framework
Introduction to exploiting Metasploit framework Metasploit architecture
Interacting with the Metasploit framework
Introduction to msfconsole Introduction to the Metasploit exploit module Introduction to the Metasploit payload module Introduction to msgrpc
Connecting the Metasploit framework and Python
Introduction to MessagePack Installing python-msfrpc Executing API calls Exploiting the Tomcat service with Metasploit Using the tomcat_mgr_deploy exploit
Connecting Metasploit with pyMetasploit
Introduction to PyMetasploit Interacting with the Metasploit framework from python
Summary Questions Further reading
Interacting with the Vulnerabilities Scanner
Technical requirements Introducing vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities and exploits
What is a vulnerability? What is an exploit?
Vulnerabilities format
Introducing the Nessus Vulnerabilities scanner
Installing the Nessus Vulnerabilities scanner Executing the Nessus Vulnerabilities scanner Identifying vulnerabilities with Nessus
Accessing the Nessus API with Python
Installing the nessrest Python module Interacting with the nesssus server
Introducing the Nexpose Vulnerabilities scanner
Installing the Nexpose Vulnerabilities scanner Executing the Nexpose Vulnerabilities scanner
Accessing the Nexpose API with Python
Installing the pynexpose Python Module
Summary Questions Further reading
Identifying Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Technical requirements Introducing vulnerabilities in web applications with OWASP
Introduction to OWASP OWASP common attacks Testing Cross-site scripting (XSS)
W3af scanner vulnerabilities in web applications
W3af overview W3AF profiles W3af install W3af in Python
Discovering sql vulnerabilities with Python tools
Introduction to SQL injection Identifying pages vulnerable to SQL Injection Introducing SQLmap Installing SQLmap Using SQLMAP to test a website for a SQL Injection vulnerability
Other commands
Other tools for detecting SQL Injection vulnerabilities
DorkMe XSScrapy
Testing heartbleed and SSL/TLS vulnerabilities
Introducing OpenSSL Finding vulnerable servers in Shodan Heartbleed vulnerability (OpenSSL CVE-2014-0160) Other tools for testing openssl vulnerability
Heartbleed-masstest Scanning for Heartbleed with the nmap port scanner Analyzing SSL/TLS configurations with SSLyze script  Other services
Summary Questions Further reading
Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers
Technical Requirements Extracting geolocation information
Introduction to geolocation Introduction to Pygeoip Introduction to pygeocoder The MaxMind database in Python
Extracting metadata from images
Introduction to Exif and the PIL module Getting the EXIF data from an image Understanding Exif Metadata Extracting metadata from web images
Extracting metadata from pdf documents
Introduction to PyPDF2 Peepdf
Identifying the technology used by a website
Introduction to the builtwith module Wappalyzer wig – webapp information gatherer
Extracting metadata from web browsers
Firefox Forensics in Python with dumpzilla
Dumpzilla command line
Firefox forensics in Python with firefeed Chrome forensics with python Chrome forensics with Hindsight
Summary Questions Further reading
Cryptography and Steganography
Technical requirements Encrypting and decrypting information with pycrypto
Introduction to cryptography Introduction to pycrypto Encrypting and decrypting with the DES algorithm Encrypting and decrypting with the AES algorithm File encryption with AES File decryption with AES
 Encrypting and decrypting information with cryptography
Introduction to cryptography Symmetric encryption with the fernet package Using passwords with the fernet package Symmetric encryption with the ciphers package
Steganography techniques for hiding information in images
Introduction to Steganography Steganography with Stepic Hiding data inside images with stepic
Summary Questions Further reading
Assessments
Chapter 1 : Working with Python Scripting Chapter 2: System Programming Packages Chapter 3: Socket Programming Chapter 4: HTTP Programming Chapter 5: Analyzing Network Traffic Chapter 6: Gathering Information from Servers Chapter 7: Interacting with FTP, SSH, and SNMP Servers Chapter 8: Working with Nmap Scanners Chapter 9: Connecting with the Metasploit Framework Chapter 10: Interacting with the Vulnerabilities Scanner Chapter 11: Identifying Server Vulnerabilities in Web Applications Chapter 12: Extracting Geolocation and Metadata from Documents, Images, and Browsers Chapter 13: Cryptography and Steganography
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