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Python for Offensive PenTest

You're reading from   Python for Offensive PenTest A practical guide to ethical hacking and penetration testing using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788838979
Length 176 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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 Khrais Khrais
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Warming up – Your First Antivirus-Free Persistence Shell FREE CHAPTER 2. Advanced Scriptable Shell 3. Password Hacking 4. Catch Me If You Can! 5. Miscellaneous Fun in Windows 6. Abuse of Cryptography by Malware 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Password phishing – DNS poisoning


One of the easiest ways to manipulate the direction of the traffic remotely is to play with DNS records. Each operating system contains a host file in order to statically map hostnames to specific IP addresses. The host file is a plain text file, which can be easily rewritten as long as we have admin privileges. For now, let's have a quick look at the host file in the Windows operating system.

In Windows, the file will be located under C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc. Let's have a look at the contents of the host file:

If you read the description, you will see that each entry should be located on a separate line. Also, there is a sample of the record format, where the IP should be placed first. Then, after at least one space, the name follows. You will also see that each record's that the IP address begins first, then we get the hostname.

Now, let's see the traffic on the packet level:

  1. Open Wireshark on our target machine and start the capture.
  2. Filter on the...
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