Hussam Khrais

Hussam T. Khrais is a technical support engineer for a leading IT company in Jordan. He is predominantly focused on Network and Wireless Security. Beyond this, he’s interested in Python scripting and penetration testing. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/hussam-khrais/48/163/158
Hussam Khrais

Articles from Hussam Khrais

Penetration testing

Creating an undetectable custom SSH backdoor in Python [A – Z]

September 8, 2018

During penetration testing, sometimes you get stuck with a secure environment where all the servers and end-clients are fully patched, updated, firewalled, a

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Penetration testing

Intelligence Information Gathering – Collecting Twitter Followers with 25 lines of Python

October 11, 2016

Introduction Many corporations are not aware of the types of data that can be found and used by attackers in the wild. The information that you will be able

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Hacking

How Did the Russian Abuse Twitter as C&C in Hammertoss Malware? Python Answers

June 24, 2016

Today, we will replicate a technique which has been used by recent, sophisticated and hard to trace a Russian malware called Hammertoss, the creators of this

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Digital forensics

Social Networking Forensics with Bulk_Extractor

March 29, 2016

Bulk_Extractor quick overview and Installation bulk_extractor is a computer forensics tool that scans a disk image, a file, or a directory of files and extra

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Penetration testing

Case Study: Evading Automated Sandbox - Python PoC

June 3, 2015

Introduction With the increasing of Sandbox technology usage, every penetration tester should be prepared to face it one day. While a plenty of Pentest tools

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Vulnerabilities

Shellshock [CVE-2014-6271]: Another Attack Vector - Bluffing IPS/IDS Sensors With Python Crafted Pkts

October 2, 2014

While a lot of online websites and blogs are explaining the vulnerability damage, providing PoC scripts and repetitive information, here we will look into an

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Hacking

Case Study: Cracking Online Banking CAPTCHA Login Using Python

September 15, 2014

Introduction CAPTCHA has been implemented for decades to prevent automated scripts (Bots) from jamming registration or login pages. Even though tons of tools

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General security

Phishing WhatsApp Images via USB, From Python With Love

September 4, 2014

Introduction How many times did your work colleague or a friend of yours find a USB cable from your PC/Laptop and attach his Android phone to recharge its ba

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