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Python Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Python Penetration Testing Cookbook Practical recipes on implementing information gathering, network security, intrusion detection, and post-exploitation

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784399771
Length 226 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rejah Rehim Rejah Rehim
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Preface 1. Why Python in Penetration Testing? FREE CHAPTER 2. Setting Up a Python Environment 3. Web Scraping with Python 4. Data Parsing with Python 5. Web Scraping with Scrapy and BeautifulSoup 6. Network Scanning with Python 7. Network Sniffing with Python 8. Scapy Basics 9. Wi-Fi Sniffing 10. Layer 2 Attacks 11. TCP/IP Attacks 12. Introduction to Exploit Development 13. Windows Exploit Development 14. Linux Exploit Development

Layering packets

In Scapy, each packet is a collection of nested dictionaries, as Scapy uses Python dictionaries as the data structure for packets. Starting from the lowest layer, each layer will be a child dictionary of the parent layer. Also, each and every field inside the layer of a packet is a key value pair inside the dictionary for that layer. So, we can make changes in this field using the assignment operations.

How to do it...

To understand the layering in Scapy, we can go through the following steps:

  1. We can get the details of a packet and its layered structure using the show() method. We can use the interactive Terminal for inspecting and determining more about each packet's structure. Open up the Terminal...
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