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Python for Offensive PenTest
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Python for Offensive PenTest

by Hussam Khrais
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
4h 16m
English
Packt Publishing
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Bypassing reputation filtering in next generation firewalls

Next-generation firewalls are all-in-one firewalls. They have all the security features, such as IPS, antivirus, anti-spam, and reputation filtering, in a single box. In this section, we will discuss a major security feature, which can prevent us from getting our shell on our target. Now, let's assume that we were able to plant our Python reverse shell successfully on our target machine. Now, in a traditional firewall, if the access control list (ACL) was allowing the traffic to the outside, then we will get our shell back successfully. But if the firewall was doing reputation filtering, then what will happen is that once the client initiates a session back to our Kali machine and ...

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