Ethical Hacking: Design Command and Control using Python 3

Ethical Hacking: Design Command and Control using Python 3, available at $54.99, has an average rating of 4.9, with 92 lectures, 9 quizzes, based on 10 reviews, and has 144 subscribers.

You will learn about Python coding and how to build a feature rich command and control tool that you can use for authorized cybersecurity tests, for fun, or for educational purposes How to code the client and server portions of the tool and enable them to interact with each other How to run the client code on target computers that do not have Python installed How to build the client code for either Windows or Linux operating systems How to implement AES encryption for all traffic between client and server How to implement the following features in your tool: reverse shell, key logging, screen captures, clipboard stealing, turning volume up, playing audio files And more features: displaying images, upload/download of files, zip/encrypt of files, unzip/decrypt of files And more features: running operating system commands in the background, flipping computer's screen upside down, typing on the compromised computer How to allow for multiple compromised computers to communicate to the c2 server and switch control over them Numerous Python concepts and terminology; every line or block of code is explained How to use Wireshark, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Ubuntu Linux, and PyCharm Community Edition Integrated Development Environment (IDE) How to operate the c2 server in a cloud, and more This course is ideal for individuals who are Ideally, it is for those that have some basic knowledge in at least one programming language and has an interest or experience in ethical hacking/offensive cybersecurity and would like to learn how to build their own tools. However, I start at ground zero and explain every line or block of code, thus beginners can follow along and learn too. Full source code is available within the course, which allows those that do not care about learning the Python or those that already know Python to skip most of the lessons if they prefer, but still be able to use the code. It is particularly useful for Ideally, it is for those that have some basic knowledge in at least one programming language and has an interest or experience in ethical hacking/offensive cybersecurity and would like to learn how to build their own tools. However, I start at ground zero and explain every line or block of code, thus beginners can follow along and learn too. Full source code is available within the course, which allows those that do not care about learning the Python or those that already know Python to skip most of the lessons if they prefer, but still be able to use the code.

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Title: Ethical Hacking: Design Command and Control using Python 3

Price: $54.99

Average Rating: 4.9

Number of Lectures: 92

Number of Quizzes: 9

Number of Published Lectures: 92

Number of Published Quizzes: 9

Number of Curriculum Items: 101

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 101

Original Price: $109.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Python coding and how to build a feature rich command and control tool that you can use for authorized cybersecurity tests, for fun, or for educational purposes
How to code the client and server portions of the tool and enable them to interact with each other
How to run the client code on target computers that do not have Python installed
How to build the client code for either Windows or Linux operating systems
How to implement AES encryption for all traffic between client and server
How to implement the following features in your tool: reverse shell, key logging, screen captures, clipboard stealing, turning volume up, playing audio files
And more features: displaying images, upload/download of files, zip/encrypt of files, unzip/decrypt of files
And more features: running operating system commands in the background, flipping computer's screen upside down, typing on the compromised computer
How to allow for multiple compromised computers to communicate to the c2 server and switch control over them
Numerous Python concepts and terminology; every line or block of code is explained
How to use Wireshark, Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), Ubuntu Linux, and PyCharm Community Edition Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
How to operate the c2 server in a cloud, and more

Who Should Attend

Ideally, it is for those that have some basic knowledge in at least one programming language and has an interest or experience in ethical hacking/offensive cybersecurity and would like to learn how to build their own tools. However, I start at ground zero and explain every line or block of code, thus beginners can follow along and learn too. Full source code is available within the course, which allows those that do not care about learning the Python or those that already know Python to skip most of the lessons if they prefer, but still be able to use the code.

Target Audiences

Ideally, it is for those that have some basic knowledge in at least one programming language and has an interest or experience in ethical hacking/offensive cybersecurity and would like to learn how to build their own tools. However, I start at ground zero and explain every line or block of code, thus beginners can follow along and learn too. Full source code is available within the course, which allows those that do not care about learning the Python or those that already know Python to skip most of the lessons if they prefer, but still be able to use the code.

Greetings course seekers. My course, “Ethical Hacking: Design Command and Control using Python 3” is hot off the press here in 2024. The way this course works is as follows:

I will start at ground zero and show you how to design and build a fully featured command and control tool using Python 3. I will take the time to explain to you every bit of the code that I use to make this project happen. This is a project that I accomplished myself a couple of years ago, but during my recording sessions for this class, I decided to re-do the code quite a bit, to make it better, and thus, you will get a live and realistic experience, because when bugs show up, they are new for me just as they are for you. I will record for you how I handle these situations and hopefully you can learn from this process.

I will show you how I started the project with a very humble beginning with a small little w3schools search, but then gradually expanded the code, turning it into a fully featured command and control tool over time, including both a client and server portion with many custom commands built in and with full end to end symmetric encryption.

I will move slowly and try to explain everything to you, including the Python code and best practices. I am not trying to rush through anything here with you. I really do want you to learn. However, if you are looking for contrived exercises to do and those sorts of things, this is not the course for that. I am showing you real code for a real Red Team tool that will have real application for you, if you work in or have an interest in Cybersecurity or Ethical Hacking.

The way this course will progress is that we will build the tool together starting from just a couple of lines of code. During every video, I am always using the term “we” because I expect you to be following along with me every step of the way. I will also provide you with 100% of the source codeafter each lesson, and the final state of the code at the end of the course. My code will become your code and you can take the tool to the next level, although it will be at a prominent level already.

The course is divided up into sections with each video building upon the last. At the end of each section, I always do a Python summary review that speaks directly to the new Python code we covered during a section of the course. Some of you that have Python experience may want to skip these videos, but for beginners or for those who are rusty, I recommend watching them.

The entire course is just over 18 hours in length and unlike other courses that cover many different topics and speed through everything, that is not what happens here. This course covers one topic, or you might consider it to be two topics and that is it. We have the command-and-control tool itself and we have the Python code that is building the tool. That is where all my energy and time will be directed, and this allows you to focus and learn.

My goal is that my course here will be a spark that some of you need to start building your own tools, or to make this tool even better. Learning is easy and fun when you have an interest in something, thus if you have that interest, give my course a try. If you do not care about coding your own custom tools for ethical hacking, then this course is not going to be the right fit for you.

Enough reading already! Go watch a few of my free preview videos and see what you think.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Disclaimer

Lecture 3: Why use Python?

Chapter 2: Installations

Lecture 1: Setup Overview

Lecture 2: Installing Python 3.x

Lecture 3: Installing PyCharm Community Edition

Lecture 4: Installing and using Windows Subsystem for Linux

Lecture 5: Amazon Web Services (AWS) Ubuntu Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) setup

Lecture 6: Installing and configuring PuTTY

Lecture 7: Installing Wireshark

Chapter 3: Client Code Beginnings

Lecture 1: Begin project and client code

Lecture 2: Obtaining request headers

Lecture 3: Changing request headers

Lecture 4: Adding a proxy option

Chapter 4: Server Code Beginnings

Lecture 1: Begin server code, part 1

Lecture 2: Begin server code, part 2

Lecture 3: Changing server versions

Lecture 4: Identifying Windows compromise

Lecture 5: Override log_request method

Lecture 6: Identifying Linux compromise

Lecture 7: Exception handling for getenv

Lecture 8: Python Summary 1

Chapter 5: Command Code Beginnings

Lecture 1: Begin command code

Lecture 2: Exception handling for get

Lecture 3: Sending command to client

Lecture 4: Running command on client

Lecture 5: Sending command output to server, part 1

Lecture 6: Sending command output to server, part 2

Lecture 7: Creating a settings module and Linux test

Lecture 8: Python Summary 2

Chapter 6: Begin Adding Features

Lecture 1: Adding change directory functionality

Lecture 2: Exception handling of change directory

Lecture 3: Fixing incorrect prompt and blank command

Lecture 4: Fixing broken pipe and getting new active client

Lecture 5: Placing current working directory in prompt

Lecture 6: Client kill and client sleep commands

Lecture 7: Implementing an input timeout

Lecture 8: Getting new active session at client kill command

Lecture 9: Python Summary 3

Chapter 7: Implementing Encryption

Lecture 1: Implementing symmetric encryption, part 1

Lecture 2: Implementing symmetric encryption, part 2

Lecture 3: Implementing symmetric encryption, part 3

Lecture 4: Implementing symmetric encryption, part 4

Lecture 5: Python summary 4 and type hinting

Chapter 8: File Related Features

Lecture 1: Client download file command – client code

Lecture 2: Client download file command – server code

Lecture 3: Client upload file command, part 1

Lecture 4: Client upload file command, part 2

Lecture 5: Client zip file command

Lecture 6: Code refactoring and fixing slash issue

Lecture 7: Client unzip file command

Lecture 8: Testing our code

Lecture 9: Fixing spaces in filenames and resetting prompt

Lecture 10: Python Summary 5

Chapter 9: Server Commands

Lecture 1: Implementing threading for the c2 server

Lecture 2: Server show clients command

Lecture 3: Server control pwned_id command and server exit command

Lecture 4: Server unzip filename command

Lecture 5: Server zip filename command and improving exceptions

Lecture 6: Server list directory and server shell commands

Lecture 7: Server help command and logging

Lecture 8: Respond to GET after server commands

Lecture 9: Python Summary 6

Chapter 10: Client Commands

Lecture 1: Client delay seconds command

Lecture 2: Client get clipboard command

Lecture 3: Client keylog on and client keylog off commands

Lecture 4: Client type text command

Lecture 5: Client screenshot command

Lecture 6: Client display image command and get_filename bug fix

Lecture 7: Client flip screen and roll screen commands

Lecture 8: Client max volume and client play filename commands

Lecture 9: Implementing client background jobs feature

Lecture 10: Adding more Try/Except Statements to our code

Lecture 11: Python Summary 7

Chapter 11: Finalizing Code and Testing

Lecture 1: Separating Linux and Windows client code

Lecture 2: Linux to Linux test results and bug fixes

Lecture 3: Shebang and other Linux details

Lecture 4: How to test on your computer and final test results

Lecture 5: Packaging Windows client with Pyinstaller

Lecture 6: Packaging Linux client with Pyinstaller

Lecture 7: Packaging everything as a single folder

Instructors

Bill Reed
Cyber Threat Emulation / Red Team Operator

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