Python for Cybersecurity 14 — Proxy V

Sharpen Python skills in the field of cybersecurity.

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This series of tutorials is mainly to share the notes taken while I was learning python for cybersecurity with the books — Black Hat Python.

There are some links in the section of References below.

Catalogue

• Proxy V

Prerequisite

• Basic knowledge of Python syntaxes
• Basic Linux knowledge
• Basic knowledge of Networking

Proxy V

def request_handler(buffer):
    # perform packet modifications
    return buffer


def response_handler(buffer):
    # perform packet modifications
    return buffer

• Modify the packet contents
• Perform fuzzing tasks
• Test for authentication issues

This is can be useful, for example, if you find plaintext user credentials being sent and want to try to elevate privileges on an application by passing in admin instead of your own username.

Reference

• Black Hat Python, 2nd Edition: Python Programming for Hackers and Pentesters | Amazon e-book
• Awesome Youtube Tutorial | Elevate Cyber
• Awesome Github source codes | Selfmade

Source Code

Github Python For Cybersecurity | Monles