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Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook - Second Edition
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Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook - Second Edition

by Michael Hixon
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
634 pages
16h 24m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Kali Linux Network Scanning Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

Python is an excellent scripting language that can be used to effectively develop custom fuzzing utilities. When assessing TCP services, the socket function can be useful in simplifying the process of performing the full three-way handshake sequence and connecting to a listening service port. The main objective of any fuzzing script is to send data to any given function as input and evaluate the result:

  1. I have developed a script that can be used to fuzz the post-authentication functions of an FTP service:
        #!/usr/bin/python        import socket        import sys        if len(sys.argv) != 6:            print "Usage - ./ftp_fuzz.py [Target-IP] [Port Number]             [Payload] [Interval] [Maximum]"            print "Example - ./ftp_fuzz.py 10.0.0.5 21 A 100 1000" print "Example ...
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