Black Hat Python, 2nd Edition

About Black Hat Python, 2nd Edition

Fully-updated for Python 3, the second edition of this worldwide bestseller (over 100,000 copies sold) explores the stealthier side of programming and brings you all new strategies for your hacking projects.

When it comes to creating powerful and effective hacking tools, Python is the language of choice for most security analysts. In this second edition of the bestselling Black Hat Python, you’ll explore the darker side of Python’s capabilities: everything from writing network sniffers, stealing email credentials, and bruteforcing directories to crafting mutation fuzzers, investigating virtual machines, and creating stealthy trojans.

All of the code in this edition has been updated to Python 3.x. You’ll also find new coverage of bit shifting, code hygiene, and offensive forensics with the Volatility Framework as well as expanded explanations of the Python libraries ctypes, struct, lxml, and BeautifulSoup, and offensive hacking strategies like splitting bytes, leveraging computer vision libraries, and scraping websites.

You’ll even learn how to:

• Create a trojan command-and-control server using GitHub

• Detect sandboxing and automate common malware tasks like keylogging and screenshotting

• Extend the Burp Suite web-hacking tool

• Escalate Windows privileges with creative process control

• Use offensive memory forensics tricks to retrieve password hashes and find vulnerabilities on a virtual machine

• Abuse Windows COM automation

• Exfiltrate data from a network undetected

About Black Hat Python, 2nd Edition

Fully-updated for Python 3, the second edition of this worldwide bestseller (over 100,000 copies sold) explores the stealthier side of programming and brings you all new strategies for your hacking projects.

When it comes to creating powerful and effective hacking tools, Python is the language of choice for most security analysts. In Black Hat Python, 2nd Edition, you’ll explore the darker side of Python’s capabilities—writing network sniffers, stealing email credentials, brute forcing directories, crafting mutation fuzzers, infecting virtual machines, creating stealthy trojans, and more.
 
The second edition of this bestselling hacking book contains code updated for the latest version of Python 3, as well as new techniques that reflect current industry best practices. You’ll also find expanded explanations of Python libraries such as ctypes, struct, lxml, and BeautifulSoup, and dig deeper into strategies, from splitting bytes to leveraging computer-vision libraries, that you can apply to future hacking projects.
 
You’ll learn how to:
  •  Create a trojan command-and-control using GitHub
  •  Detect sandboxing and automate common malware tasks, like keylogging and screenshotting
  •  Escalate Windows privileges with creative process control
  •  Use offensive memory forensics tricks to retrieve password hashes and inject shellcode into a virtual machine
  •  Extend the popular Burp Suite web-hacking tool
  •  Abuse Windows COM automation to perform a man-in-the-browser attack
  •  Exfiltrate data from a network most sneakily
 
When it comes to offensive security, your ability to create powerful tools on the fly is indispensable. Learn how with the second edition of Black Hat Python.
 
New to this edition:
All Python code has been updated to cover Python 3 and includes updated libraries used in current Python applications. Additionally, there are more in-depth explanations of the code and the programming techniques have been updated to current, common tactics. Examples of new material that you’ll learn include how to sniff network traffic, evade anti-virus software, brute-force web applications, and set up a command-and-control (C2) system using GitHub.

About Black Hat Python, 2nd Edition

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