Ethical Hacking: Learn The Art of Hacking Using Python3

Install vmware workstation player to build a virtual hacking lab on Windows or Linux, then create Kali Linux server and Windows client environments to test payloads.

Install Kali Linux on a virtual machine with VMware Workstation for non-commercial use, and compare free vs pro versions. Create new VMs and use snapshots and virtual network features.

Install Kali Linux on VMware Workstation by downloading, extracting, and launching the VMX file, then log in with Kali credentials to explore information gathering tools.

Understand why using Python to code malware and payloads helps bypass antivirus and firewalls, instead of relying solely on Kali Linux tools like Metasploit for Windows targets.

Watch how to download a Windows image, extract the zip, import the Windows 10 VM into VMware Workstation, adjust memory and CPU, and log in with the provided password.

Learn to install all course libraries on kali linux by downloading a centralized requirements file, ensuring python3 and pip are installed, updating the system, and using pip3 to install dependencies.

Install all course libraries on a Windows machine (virtual machine) by first installing Python, then using pip to install from the requirements file, navigating to the desktop as needed.

Understand how a backdoor bypasses security and firewall barriers to grant admin access, enabling hackers to install malware such as spyware, ransomware, or cryptojacking, often via victim-initiated connections.

Learn to run shell commands from Python using the subprocess module, with examples like who am I and dir in Windows, implemented in a simple two-line script.

Learn how to run a command from Python, capture its output in a variable, decode bytes to utf-8 text, and compare call versus output methods for transmission.

Create a python backdoor to establish a reverse shell on a Windows victim, with a listening attacker machine, and implement a payload that evades antivirus and firewall defenses.

Set up a python socket server to enable client–server communication between Kali Linux and a Windows victim, binding to an IP address and port, and listening for incoming messages.

Learn to build a Python socket backdoor, setting up a server, creating a payload, and connecting a Windows client to a Kali Linux host over a port for ethical hacking.

Discover how a Linux server and Windows client exchange a payload via socket programming in Python, sending data as bytes and decoding with UTF-8.

Explore server client communication with socket programming, transmitting messages between Kali Linux and Windows. Build a loop to send and receive bytes, decoding to UTF-8 for human readability.

Demonstrates a reverse shell backdoor. The attacker sends commands to a Windows client, executes them via a Python subprocess, and returns the output over a byte-encoded channel, with quit handling.

Learn to implement exception handling to prevent backdoor crashes when invalid commands are issued. Explore client-server payloads, byte-based data transfer, and robust command validation with Python.

Learn to design a Python-based backdoor with directory traversal capabilities, using cd to navigate a host and establish client-server communication across Windows and galley linux.

Handle cd exceptions in a Python backdoor by using exception handling to report 'file not found' without terminating the connection, maintaining access while navigating directories.

Discover how download functionality enables a backdoor to request a file from a Windows host, slice the command, read the file, and transmit bytes back to Kali Linux.

Handle download exceptions in a backdoor by detecting when a requested file does not exist on the client. Send a no file found message to the Linux machine and continue the backdoor operation instead of terminating.

Follow the dry principle to eliminate code repetition by wrapping repeated blocks into a dry block, improving reliability and readability while handling file not found and command errors.

Maintain dry principle at server side by wrapping code in a shared try block with a file not found exception, illustrating download and upload workflows.

Implement upload functionality in a backdoor, enabling server-to-client file transfer by reading a file from the server in binary mode, sending bytes, and saving received data on the victim machine.

Explore debugging and testing of an upload feature within a backdoor scenario, analyzing how payloads and ransomware notes transfer between client and server, and how network latency affects reliability.

Explore building ethical hacking tools with python to interact with windows operating systems, including sending a lock command via a backdoor and discussing payload persistence and safety on virtual machines.

explores how to implement persistence for a backdoor in a client-server setup, ensuring the payload reconnects after server or system restart, with discussion on packaging and disguising the tool.

Convert Python scripts into Windows executables with auto-py-to-exe to deliver payloads, test on a server with a listener, and explore concepts like payload delivery and ransomware.

Explore how a payload becomes a Windows executable and how it can be bound with additional files, such as icons and audio, to imitate bundled delivery in ethical hacking scenarios.

Explore how cybersecurity defends computing assets across the full lifecycle of a cyberattack, and how ethical hackers use white-hat methods to find and fix zero-day vulnerabilities before criminals exploit them.

Identify and secure against passive and active traits by understanding confidentiality, integrity, and non repudiation as core security goals, including masquerade, replay, modification, and denial of service.

Explore cryptography as the science of transforming plaintext into ciphertext to secure messages from hackers. Learn core terms—plaintext, ciphertext, cipher, encryption, and decryption—and how algorithms protect communication.

Explore how plaintext becomes ciphertext through encryption and how decryption unlocks messages with a key. Compare symmetric key cryptography and asymmetric key cryptography, and review ciphers like the Caesar cipher.

Explore symmetric encryption with a shared password and asymmetric encryption with public and private keys, including RSA, to encrypt and decrypt messages securely.

Explore the RSA algorithm, a cornerstone of asymmetric public key cryptography, where the receiver's public key encrypts messages and the private key decrypts them.

Learn how ransomware functions as malware that extorts money by locking or encrypting files. The lecture presents a Python-based crypto locker project and surveys ransomware history, including cryptolocker.

Criminals install ransomware through social engineering, delivering it via malicious email attachments, deceptive links, or fake warnings, leading to automatic infection or pop-up alerts.

Explore different ransomware types, including encryption ransomware, lock screen ransomware, and master boot record ransomware, and examine cryptolocker’s RSA key-based extortion and prevention strategies.

Generate rsa private and public keys on a Kali machine with a python script and crypto library, exporting and saving them for encryption and decryption.

Builds a ransomware demo on Kali Linux that encrypts Windows files using a Fernet key, encrypted with the RSA public key, with the victim's key stored for ransom.

this lecture demonstrates testing ransomware payloads on a Windows machine, using a backdoor to upload and execute encryption, generate a Fernet key, and encrypt a folder with public-key cryptography.

Explore how public key cryptography encrypts data using RSA and the advanced encryption standard in an ethical hacking context. See how Python3 demonstrates encryption workflows and key management.

Explore a Python encryption workflow that generates a key, encrypts it with a Kali Linux public key, and demonstrates file encryption and decryption with binary handling.

Explore building a Python script to encrypt multiple files and directories, including traversing a system, filtering by extensions, and integrating encryption with decryption and ransomware backdoor concepts.

Decrypt the fornet key using a private RSA key on Kali Linux and explore RSA-based decryption within a ransomware workflow, including building a decryptor and ransom note for test scenarios.

Explore how ransomware can alter a victim's Windows desktop background by downloading an image via Python and applying it with system parameters, illustrating the payload flow.

Learn to create a ransom note generator in Python, including date formatting and writing a formatted note to a file to display on a victim's machine.

Explore building a ransomware note display on a Windows desktop with Python, using subprocess to open notepad, Win32 for window targeting, and threading to continually render the ransom text.

Demonstrates how ransomware encrypts victim files with a Fortnite key encrypted by a public key, and how a private key enables decryption after ransom, including key retrieval.

Explore ethical hacking with Python to understand ransomware workflows, including backdoors, key generation, encryption and decryption, and the role of social engineering in cyber incident simulations.