Black Hat Python
Justin Seitz is the president and co-founder of Dark River Systems Inc., where he ships Hunchly, consults for hedge funds, and does OSINT research. Gray Hat Python, the first book on Python for security analysis, is written by him.
Tim Arnold has over 20 years of experience as a professional Python software developer at the SAS Institute. He contributes to various open source software projects and serves in his community as a hacking trainer.
Python is the language of choice for most security experts when it comes to designing sophisticated and effective hacking tools. In this second edition of the best-selling Black Hat Python, you'll learn how to write network sniffers, steal email credentials, and bruteforce directories, as well as create mutation fuzzers, investigate virtual machines, and create stealthy trojans.
This edition's code has been upgraded to Python 3.x. You'll also find expanded explanations of the Python libraries ctypes, struct, lxml, and BeautifulSoup, as well as offensive hacking strategies like splitting bytes, leveraging computer vision libraries, and scraping websites, as well as new coverage of bit shifting, code hygiene, and offensive forensics with the Volatility Framework.
You'll even discover:
- Using GitHub, create a trojan command-and-control server.
- Sandboxing detection and automation of common malware tasks such as keylogging and screenshotting
- Burp Suite's web-hacking feature should be expanded.
- Increase Windows privileges by using creative process control.
- To recover password hashes and identify vulnerabilities on a virtual system, use offensive memory forensics techniques.
- Make use of Windows COM automation.
- Unnoticed data exfiltration from a network
When it comes to offensive security, you must be able to quickly construct effective tools. Learn how to do it with Black Hat Python, one of the best books on computer networking.
Author: Justin Seitz and Tim Arnold
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Hat-Python-2nd-Programming/dp/1718501129/
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