An advanced level course designed for pentesters who want to develop competency in scripting and building their own tools. This course provides students with a strong foundation in the Python scripting language at the intermediate level while taking the student much deeper into advanced techniques for Penetration testing. Students who take this course learn how to look at a variety of technical situations and build specialized tools to solve problems. During the course, students create a variety of scripts and tools, including scanners, exploits, web application attack tools, and more.
Learning Objectives
Students will gain access to unprivileged accounts and escalate privilege to exploit and maintain persistence. They will write exploits to leverage against Windows and Linux-based applications and/or systems. Hide sensitive data exfiltration using encryption and test applications via fuzzing to exploit discovered vulnerabilities.
Framework Connections
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