🐍 Black Hat Python Setup on Parrot OS (VM)

📅 Date: July 10, 2025
💻 Host OS: Linux Mint
🧪 Guest VM: Parrot OS running in VMware
📂 Project Directory: ~/blackhat-python
🐍 Python Version: 3.11.2
🎯 Virtual Environment: bhpython-env
🔒 Environment Type: Isolated Python dev environment for cybersecurity tools

🔧 Setup Steps

  1. Created and activated a virtual environment named bhpython-env.
  2. Confirmed pip functionality and installed key packages.
  3. Saved installed package list to requirements.txt.
  4. Created a project directory at ~/blackhat-python.
  5. Wrote and tested a basic network scanner script to confirm socket operations.

📦 Key Python Packages Installed

  • requests, flask, scapy, netifaces
  • pwntools, paramiko, pyserial, cryptography
  • capstone, unicorn, ROPGadget, pyelftools, rpyc
  • psutil, colored-traceback, Werkzeug, intervaltree

All packages were verified and saved for reuse using pip freeze.

🧪 First Test Script: scanner.py

This script checks whether port 22 (SSH) is open on localhost. It uses socket.connect_ex() to determine if the port is reachable and prints the result accordingly.

✅ Current Status

  • Environment is clean, isolated, and Python 3.11-compatible.
  • All required libraries for Black Hat Python projects are installed.
  • First script successfully executed and environment validated.
  • Ready to begin working through Black Hat Python chapters and hands-on tools.