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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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HTTP reverse shell

In this section, we will discuss a higher-level Python reverse shell, which will be carried over the HTTP protocol. The HTTP protocol is highly likely to be opened on the outbound or egress firewall rules, since it's used for web surfing. Also, a lot of HTTP traffic is required in every network, which makes monitoring much harder and the chances of us slipping up are high. Let's see how it works.

First, we'll configure a simple HTTP server and a simple HTTP client and we'll use the GET and POST methods to send data back and forth between these two entities. So, as mentioned earlier, the client will initiate a reverse HTTP session back to our server using a GET method and on the server side, once we receive a GET request, ...

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