You're reading from Python Ethical Hacking from Scratch Think like an ethical hacker, avoid detection, and successfully develop, deploy, detect, and avoid malware

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838829506

Length 214 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Python

Tools

Scratch

Concepts

Ethical Hacking

Author (1):

Fahad Ali Sarwar

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: The Nuts and Bolts of Ethical Hacking – The Basics

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Hacking FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Getting Started – Setting Up a Lab Environment

4. Section 2: Thinking Like a Hacker – Network Information Gathering and Attacks

5. Chapter 3: Reconnaissance and Information Gathering

6. Chapter 4: Network Scanning

7. Chapter 5: Man in the Middle Attacks

8. Section 3: Malware Development

9. Chapter 6: Malware Development

10. Chapter 7: Advanced Malware

11. Chapter 8: Post Exploitation

12. Chapter 9: System Protection and Perseverance

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Changing our MAC address

In this section, we will try to change our MAC address on the Kali machine. Let's start our Kali machine and open up a Terminal. To change the MAC address, you will need to install the net-tools package. In most Linux distributions, this tool is already available. However, if it is not installed, you can install it using the following commands:

 sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install -y net-tools

It will prompt you for a password, which is kali. Once the tools have been installed, you can view the MAC address with the following command:

sudo ifconfig

If everything goes well, you will see an output similar to the following:

Figure 3.12 – ifconfig command output

There is a lot to unpack here, so let's break it down. There are two values here called eth0 and lo. eth0 is the name of the NIC, whereas lo is the loopback adapter. For now, we can ignore the loopback adapter. The inet field represents the private...