Python Ethical Hacking : Build tools for ethical hacking

Discover which virtual machine software to use for this course, including a free guarded vm option and the workstation player for stability.

Explore how Python virtual environments isolate project libraries from the system. Learn to create lightweight environments that hold only needed libraries to keep projects small.

Install and use a Python package manager on Linux to set up a virtual environment, activate it, and work isolated from the main interpreter.

Create and activate a Python virtual environment on Windows using python -m venv, verify isolation with freeze, and deactivate. Learn to set up environments on Windows and Linux.

Explore Visual Studio Code configuration for Python development, install the Python extension, apply material themes and icons, enable docstring generation, and sync settings with GitHub.

Classify networks by geography, connectivity, administration, and architecture, and examine topologies like bus, ring, star, and mesh, plus sizes from personal network to internet.

Explains the OSI model and its layering, from the application layer to the physical layer, illustrating standardized device communication.

Identify key network entities and terminologies, including IP addresses (public and private), MAC addresses, gateways, and ARP mappings, and compare connection oriented DCP with handshake to connectionless UDP.

Learn how to change your network interface MAC address to improve privacy and security by bringing the interface down, applying a new hardware address, and verifying it with ifconfig.

Explore how to inspect IP packets with scapy in Python, using functions to access IP header fields, view source and destination addresses, and print detailed packet information.

Learn to use nmap for information gathering and network mapping, including host discovery. Explore command line and graphical interfaces to identify open ports and DNS servers on networks.

Learn to build a scapy based arp scan tool that uses verbose control, a broadcast mac address, and crafted arp packets sent with srp to map a network.

Create a server and a client to demonstrate a reverse connection using sockets, binding, listening, accepting, and sending a message between a hacker machine and a victim machine.

Create a client program using sockets to connect to a server IP and port, send and receive data, decode bytes, and safely close the connection.

Create server and client socket instances to establish a local connection, listen and accept, exchange data, print received messages, and then close the connection.

Explore how to receive and execute commands in a loop on a target system using PowerShell, handle command errors, and convert output from bytes to a UTF-8 string.

Debug a Python command interface by preventing crashes from empty input. Add checks for empty strings to continue loops, ensuring valid commands execute and the program runs smoothly.

Develop a serialization-based method to send arbitrary data using a defined delimiter and debt limit. Encode command results into bytes, transmit via socket, and detect completion to compile the data.

Learn to upload files to the time machine by scanning the folder, listing files with indices, and selecting one to upload via the upload files function.

Develop a file transfer workflow by receiving a file over a socket, creating a receive/download function, and integrating it with the sending process on a Windows host.

Learn how encoding and encrypting virus data can bypass antivirus detection by transforming malicious payloads into unreadable formats before sending and decrypting on the victim machine.