Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Chapter 8: Post Exploitation

In Chapter 7, Advanced Malware, we learned how to add some advanced functionalities to our malware program. You can add any number of functionalities you want to your malware. Once you are done writing your code, next comes the implementation part. How do you package your malware and make it useful for deployment? In this chapter, we will learn about the following aspects of malware deployment:

• Packaging the malware
• Understanding trojans
• Attacking over a public IP
• Cracking passwords
• Stealing passwords
• Creating botnets

Packaging the malware

The program we developed in Chapter 7, Advanced Malware, was a Python file. It also contained some dependencies. It is very hard to run a Python file on a victim's machine without ...