Chapter 8. Exploit Development with Python, Metasploit, and Immunity
During research or in a rare engagement, you may need to develop or modify exploits to meet your needs. Python is a fantastic language to quickly prototype code for testing exploits or to help with the future modification of Metasploit modules. This chapter focuses on the methodology to write an exploit, not how to create specific exploits for these software products, so that more testing may be necessary to improve reliability. To begin, we need to understand how the Central Processing Unit (CPU) registers and how Windows memory is structured for executables when they run. Before that, on Windows XP Run Mode Virtual Machine (VM), you will need a few tools to test this out.
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