Applied Network Security

Scapy

Scapy is a packet manipulation tool. You can thus create custom packets to deliver your payload (data) to a victim PC or network. This too was written by Philippe Biondi in the computer language python, for packet decoding, construction, and manipulation. The practical applications are vast and powerful, from packet decoding, construction, and manipulation to malicious implementations such as DDoS to MITM attacks and even manually injecting backdoors. You can create and send packets, or filter to receive specific packets on the network. You can also scan a pcap file or write packets into the pcap and even layer packets. You can also use it for testing a variety of possible attack vectors or troubleshoot network issues. As you can see, ...