Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch: Think like an ethical hacker, avoid detection, and successfully develop, deploy, detect, and avoid malware

Cover
Title page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: The Nuts and Bolts of Ethical Hacking – The Basics
Chapter 1: Introduction to Hacking
	What\'s all the fuss about hackers?
	What is hacking?
		Confidentiality
		Integrity
		Availability
	Becoming a successful hacker
		Legality
	Types of hackers
		White hat hackers
		Black hat hackers
		Gray hat hackers
		Nation-state hackers
		Corporate spies
		Hacktivists
		Script kiddies
	Hacking phases and methodology
		Planning
		Reconnaissance
		Scanning
		Identifying weaknesses
		Attacking and gaining access
		Maintaining access
		Post exploitation
		Covering tracks
		Reporting
	Careers in cybersecurity
		Systems security administration
		Security architect
		Penetration tester
		Forensic analyst
		Chief information security officer
	Types of attacks
		System control
		Social engineering
		Baiting
		Phishing
	Summary
Chapter 2: Getting Started – Setting Up a Lab Environment
	Technical requirements
	Setting up VirtualBox
	Installing virtual OSes
		Attack machine OS
	Installing Python
		Installing Python on Windows
		Installing Python on Kali Linux
	Integrated development environment
	Setting up networking
	Updating Kali
	Using virtual environments
	Summary
Section 2: Thinking Like a Hacker – Network Information Gathering and Attacks
Chapter 3: Reconnaissance and Information Gathering
	What is a computer network?
	Components of a basic computer network
		Node
		Server
		Transmission media
		Network interface card
		Hub
		Switch
		Router
		Gateway
		Firewall
	Classifying network
		Local area network
		Personal area network
		Metropolitan area networks
		Wide area network
		Internet
	Network stack
		Introduction to OSI model
		Complete cycle
		TCP/IP model
		Mapping the OSI and TCP/IP stack
	Network entities
		Private IP address
		IPv4 versus IPv6
		MAC address
		Ports
	Protection
	Changing our MAC address
		Creating a Python script
	Summary
Chapter 4: Network Scanning
	Introduction to networking
		Data representation in digital systems
		Data encapsulation
		The packet delivery process
	Introduction to Scapy
		Installing Scapy
		Understanding how Scapy works
	Network scanner using Scapy
		Address Resolution Protocol
		ARP scanner using Scapy
	Summary
Chapter 5: Man in the Middle Attacks
	Why do we need ARP?
		ARP poisoning
	Building an ARP spoof program
		Arp spoof project
	Monitoring traffic
	Encrypted traffic
	Restoring ARP tables manually
	Decrypting the network traffic
		HTTPS versus HTTP
		Bypassing HTTPS
	Summary
Section 3: Malware Development
Chapter 6: Malware Development
	Understanding RATs
		Forward shell
		Reverse shell
	Socket programming in Python
		Sockets
		Creating a socket in Python
		socket.socket() API
		socket.bind() API
		socket.listen() API
		socket.accept() API
		socket.connect()
		socket.send()
		Socket.recv()
		socket.close()
		Fitting it altogether
	Creating malware
		Hacker server
		Victim\'s client
	Running commands remotely on the victim\'s machine
	Navigating directories
	Summary
Chapter 7: Advanced Malware
	Building a keylogger file transfer
		Downloading the victim file to the hacker
		Uploading files to the victim
	Taking screenshots
	Keylogger
	Summary
Chapter 8: Post Exploitation
	Packaging the malware
		Understanding the pyinstaller library
	Understanding trojans
		Adding an icon to an executable
		Creating your own trojan
	Attack over a public IP
	Cracking passwords
	Stealing passwords
	Creating botnets
	Summary
Chapter 9: System Protection and Perseverance
	Persistence system protection
		Intrusion detection systems
		IDS detection mechanisms
	Bypassing an IDS
	Persistence
	Summary
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