Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

Practical recipes on implementing information gathering, network security, intrusion detection, and post-exploitation

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

Paid access

|Jul 2025

E-Book €22.99Institutions €119.95

Description

Over 50+ hands-on recipes to help you pen test networks using Python, discover vulnerabilities, and find a recovery path

Key Features

Learn to detect and avoid various types of attack that put system privacy at risk
Enhance your knowledge of wireless application concepts and information gathering through practical recipes
Learn a pragmatic way to penetration-test using Python, build efficient code, and save time

Book Description

Penetration testing is the use of tools and code to attack a system in order to assess its vulnerabilities to external threats. Python allows pen testers to create their own tools. Since Python is a highly valued pen-testing language, there are many native libraries and Python bindings available specifically for pen-testing tasks.

Python Penetration Testing Cookbook begins by teaching you how to extract information from web pages. You will learn how to build an intrusion detection system using network sniffing techniques. Next, you will find out how to scan your networks to ensure performance and quality, and how to carry out wireless pen testing on your network to avoid cyber attacks. After that, we’ll discuss the different kinds of network attack. Next, you’ll get to grips with designing your own torrent detection program. We’ll take you through common vulnerability scenarios and then cover buffer overflow exploitation so you can detect insecure coding. Finally, you’ll master PE code injection methods to safeguard your network.

What you will learn

Learn to configure Python in different environment setups.
Find an IP address from a web page using BeautifulSoup and Scrapy
Discover different types of packet sniffing script to sniff network packets
Master layer-2 and TCP/ IP attacks
Master techniques for exploit development for Windows and Linux
Incorporate various network- and packet-sniffing techniques using Raw sockets and Scrapy

Who this book is for

If you are a developer with prior knowledge of using Python for penetration testing and if you want an overview of scripting tasks to consider while penetration testing, this book will give you a lot of useful code for your toolkit.