This book, subtitled "Go Programming For Hackers and Pentesters" explores the darker side of  Golang. Authors Tom Steele, Dan Kottmann, and Chris Patten show how a collection of short scripts will help you test your systems, build and automate tools to fit your needs, and improve your offensive security skillset. The book begins with a basic overview of Go's syntax and philosophy then move on to explore examples that you can use for tool development, including common network protocols like HTTP, DNS, and SMB.

Authors: Tom Steele, Dan Kottmann, and Chris Patten
Publisher: No Starch Press
Date: January 2020
Pages: 368
ISBN: 978-1593278656
Print: 1593278659
Kindle: B073NPY29N
Audience: Go developers
Level: Introductory/Intermediate
Category: Security 

Contents include:

•  Make performant tools that can be used for your own security projects
• Create usable tools that interact with remote APIs  
• Scrape arbitrary HTML data
• Use Go's standard package, net/http, for building HTTP servers
• Write your own DNS server and proxy
• Use DNS tunneling to establish a C2 channel out of a restrictive network
• Create a vulnerability fuzzer to discover an application's security weaknesses
• Use plug-ins and extensions to future-proof products
• Build an RC2 symmetric-key brute-forcer
• Implant data within a Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image.

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