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python-pentesting

Just a repo of random Python scripts to get pentesters started with the Python language on engagements.

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Python for Pentesters

Overview

Getting started with Python for pentesting and red team engagements is fairly easy! This repo is just a small collection of random scripts to help get you started.

Brought to you by:

Black Hills Information Security

Examples: by Mike Felch (@ustayready) and Joff Thyer (@joff_thyer)

This code is provided purely for educational purposes.

  • pivot_winrm.py: shows how to use Python with winrm to execute commands on a remote machine
  • cloud_aws_s3.py: search AWS S3 buckets for sensitive filenames
  • cloud_aws_secrets.py: Dump all the secrets in AWS Secrets Manager
  • cloud_azure_ad.py: Dumping AzureAD users
  • cloud_gsuite_backdoor.py: Backdooring G Suite accounts for full access
  • cloud_gsuite_email.py: Reading GMail emails
  • crack_jwt.py: Cracking JSON web tokens
  • live_host_discovery.py: Discovering live hosts on a network
  • live_port_discovery.py: Discovering open ports on a host
  • passwords_attack.py: Trying username/password combinations on a web authentication portal
  • pivot_psremoting.py: Pivoting in a Windows environment using PSRemoting
  • pivot_wmi.py: Pivoting in a Windows environment using WMI
  • shodan_search.py: Searching for internet connected devices on Shodan
  • socket_c2_client.py: C2 socket client
  • socket_c2_server.py: C2 socket server
  • web_brute.py: Brute forcing web paths for unknown attack surfaces
  • web_robots.py: Downloading the robots.txt for URLs
  • web_sniff.py: Sniffing HTTP packets
  • web_spa.py: Interacting with a single page app with a headless browser then copying session cookies to the requests library
  • pymeta.py: Read all files in a directory recursively and extracts metadata from any office documents, and PDFs discovered
  • powerstrip.py: Strips comments out of a PowerShell script, and writes a file with -stripped as part of the filename
  • pyinjector.py: Using ctypes to execute shellcode within the same process or inject into a remote process using thread manipulation
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