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Python for Ethical Hackers

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Course Description
Today’s reality is this: No matter what business you are in, no matter where in the world you are – if you’ve got data,
then your business is at constant risk . These are the words used by Robert J. McCullen to describe the current
situation in the 2013 Global Security Report. Today, IT and security professionals are faced with an increasing
number of threats that are not only growing in volume, but also in sophistication and scale.

The Python for Ethical Hackers course will provide you the tools and teach you the techniques to quickly identify and
exploit vulnerabilities in your corporate network. After a quick introduction to the Python programming language,
you will learn through several hands-on exercises how to collect information about your target, launch complex Web
attacks, extend world-class tools such as the Burp Suite and WinDbg, discover software vulnerabilities, write reliable
exploits for Microsoft Windows, and develop custom scripts for your Android phone.

Highlights
 Develop custom applications for extracting data from social networks
 Understand how to develop customized network reconnaissance tools
 Learn to automate complex network and Web attacks
 Utilize Python to rapidly develop remote exploits
 Learn to evade antivirus and IDS software with ad-hoc Python Voodoo

Audience
This course is well suited for penetration testers, network administrators, security engineers, auditors, exploit
developers, and IT professionals who are wishing to take their hacking skills to a completely new level.

Course Content

Module 0: The Course

 Welcome
 Course Overview
 Setting up the Lab

Module 1: Python Essentials

 Introduction to Python
 Data types and variables
 Operators and expressions
 Conditional statements and loops
 Functions, modules and packages
 Input / output
 Errors and Exceptions
 Classes and objects
 Standard modules

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 Debugging and introspection

Module 2: Intelligence Gathering

 Passive information gathering with the Google API
 Extracting information from Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
 Metadata analysis
 Extracting metadata from images
 Extracting metadata from PDF files
 Extracting metadata from Microsoft Office files
 Extracting metadata from executable files
 Advanced geolocation analysis

Module 3: Network Hacking

 Passive network traffic analysis
 PCAP file parsing and analysis
 Network and port scanning
 Using the Nmap port scanner from Python
 Brute forcing SSH, Telnet and FTP user credentials
 SNMP reconnaissance
 Enumerating Windows users
 Enumerating open TCP ports
 Enumerating installed software
 Advanced packet manipulation with Scapy

Module 4: Web Hacking

 HTTP clients and servers
 HTML and XML file analysis
 Scanning and attacking Web applications
 Extending the Burp Suite in Python
 Building custom Web exploits from scratch

Module 5: Software Hacking

 Static analysis with IDA Pro
 Analyzing live applications with WinDbg and PyKd
 Binary analysis with the Immunity Debugger
 Building custom exploits from scratch
 Antivirus and IDS evasion

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Module 6: Mobile Hacking

 Introduction to Python for Android
 Android API overview
 Building custom scripts for Android

Prerequisites
Training attendees should be familiar with the most common Web attacks (e.g. SQL Injections, Cross-Site Scripting,
etc.) as well as have a basic knowledge and understanding of popular software vulnerabilities (e.g. stack buffer
overflows, format strings, etc.).

Requirements
 Laptop with at least forty (40) GB of free hard drive space and eight (8) GB of RAM
 Latest Oracle VM VirtualBox and VirtualBox Extension Pack installed.
 A working version of Burp Suite Professional (or Burp Suite Professional Trial)
 A working version of IDA Pro 6.8+ (or IDA Pro Evaluation Version)

Trainer
Gianni Gnesa is a security researcher and professional trainer at Ptrace Security GmbH, a Swiss-based company that
offers specialized IT security services to customers worldwide. With several years of experience in vulnerability
research, exploit development, and penetration testing, Gianni is an expert in exposing the vulnerabilities of complex
commercial products and modern network infrastructures. In his spare time, Gianni conducts independent security
research on kernel exploitation and rootkit detection.

Contact Information
For further information, please contact Ptrace Security GmbH at training@ptrace-security.com

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