Qt 6 (And Friends!) For Penetration Testers

How to build world class software tools for penetration testers with Qt 6 (and friends!).

What you'll learn

Qt 6: intermediate and advanced CLI applications with Qt Creator

Qt 6: intermediate and advanced GUI applications with Qt Creator and Qt Designer

Qt 6: intermediate and advanced application architecture, design and process flow

Qt 6: intermediate and advanced networking

Qt 6: intermediate and advanced release with dynamic vs. static builds, and using the Qt Installer Framework for Windows

Qt 6: intermediate and advanced concurrency with threads and processes

Qt 6 friends: using Graphviz, OpenMP, QScintilla and others

Requirements

Modern C++: a good working knowledge of modern C++

Qt: a working knowledge of Qt is required

Other programming languages: a working knowledge of ECMAScript/JavaScript and SQL is useful but not required

Command line: a working knowledge of essential CLI commands for Powershell and Linux is useful but now essential

Description

This course is about using Qt 6 and above to develop software tools for penetration testers, and starts with the basics of Qt Creator navigation and usage.It is primarily intended as a primer for software projects for penetration test tools developed using Qt 6.It progresses through application (CLI and GUI) design and development, and covers topics such as ingesting and using output from other pen test tools (such as nmap and nessus) and then moves through sections on integration with ECMAScript/JavaScript, and other useful libraries such as QScintilla, OpenMP and the Qt Charts API.We will look at topics including elements of the Qt SQL module, networking, threading and advanced memory management all with a focus on developers creating tools for penetration testing.In the process of refining our software tooling we will delve into some of the basics of refactoring, and elements of High Performance Computing (HPC) to add some final polish. We will also side bar with a look at technologies such as the Qt Test Framework, the State Machine Framework, structured text handling and using the Qt Installer Framework for Windows. Additionally, we will build Qt statically foe windows, and build the KDAB GammaRay anf KDStatemachineEditor tools introspection tools on Windows.We will also address subjects such as integrating modern C++ with Qt, and using the development pipeline capabilities provided by qmake and Qt Creator.This is an intermediate and above level Qt/C++ course, and I very much look forward to joining you on this voyage of discovery!

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 A quick tour of the repo

Section 2: Qt Creator

Lecture 3 Qt Creator: Basics

Lecture 4 Qt Creator: Multi refactoring

Lecture 5 Qt Creator: The preferences dialog

Lecture 6 Qt Creator: QMake basics

Lecture 7 Qt Creator: Build statically for WIndows

Lecture 8 Qt Creator: Using the debugging tools and IDE

Section 3: Development scaffolding and time savers

Lecture 9 Scaffolding: Qt Creator Snippets

Lecture 10 Scaffolding: Discovering Designer

Lecture 11 Scaffolding: Custom Item (Class) Templates

Lecture 12 Scaffolding: Custom Project Templates

Lecture 13 Scaffolding: QTest project executables on the command line

Lecture 14 Scaffolding: Qt Test Framework (Test Driven Development with self-testing code)

Lecture 15 Scaffolding: Qt Test Framework (Test Driven Development with console app code)

Lecture 16 Scaffolding: Qt Test Framework (Test Driven Development with a widgets GUI)

Lecture 17 Scaffolding: The Qt Installer Framework

Section 4: All you REALLY need to know about . . .

Lecture 18 . . . structured text with Qt (.ini, XML and JSON)

Lecture 19 . . . Qt memory management

Lecture 20 . . . memory analysis on Windows

Lecture 21 . . . state machines 'n stuff with the Qt State Machine Framework and SCXML

Lecture 22 . . . events, transitions and guards in the Qt State Machine Framework

Lecture 23 . . . plugins 'n stuff with QPluginLoader and QLibrary

Lecture 24 . . . ECMAScript 'n stuff with QJSEngine

Lecture 25 . . . the Qt property system

Lecture 26 . . . secure networking with QSslSocket

Lecture 27 . . . secure networking with QHttpServer and QNetworkAccessManager

Lecture 28 . . . secure networking with QWebSockets

Lecture 29 . . . threads 'n stuff with QThread, QRunnable and Qt Concurrent

Lecture 30 . . . databases 'n stuff with Qt SQL

Lecture 31 . . . modern C++ and Qt

Lecture 32 . . . console applications with QCommandLineParser

Lecture 33 . . . system interaction 'n stuff with Qt

Lecture 34 . . . charts 'n stuff with Qt

Section 5: The 'and friends' section

Lecture 35 XML Notepad and DB Browser for SQLite

Lecture 36 AT&T Graphviz (dot)

Lecture 37 WinRAR and file hiding

Lecture 38 QScintilla

Lecture 39 OpenMP with the MSVC build kit

Lecture 40 GammaRay and KDStateMachineEditor from KDAB

Advanced Qt and C++ programmers developing software tools for penetration testing