the network is and always will be the sexiest arena for hacker an attacker can do almost anything with simple network accesssuch as scan for hostsinject packetssniff dataremotely exploit hostsand much more but if you are an attacker who has worked your way into the deepest depths of an enterprise targetyou may find yourself in bit of conundrumyou have no tools to execute network attacks no netcat no wireshark no compiler and no means to install one howeveryou might be surprised to find that in many casesyou'll find python installand so that is where we will begin this will give you some basics on python networking using the socket[ module along the waywe'll build clientsserversand tcp proxyand then turn them into our very own netcatcomplete with command shell this is the foundation for subsequent in which we will build host discovery toolimplement cross-platform sniffersand create remote trojan framework let' get started