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I'm trying to play with a security tool using scapy to spoof ASCII characters in a UDP checksum. I can do it, but only when I hardcode the bytes in Hex notation. But I can't convert the ASCII string word into binary notation. This works to send the bytes of He (first two chars of "Hello world"): 

sr1(IP(dst=server)/UDP(dport=53, chksum=0x4865)/DNS(rd=1,qd=DNSQR(qname=query)),verbose=0)`

But whenever I try to use a variable of test2 instead of 0x4865, the DNS packet is not transmitted over the network. This should create binary for this ASCII:

test2 = bin(int(binascii.hexlify('He'),16))

sr1(IP(dst=server)/UDP(dport=53, chksum=test2)/DNS(rd=1,qd=DNSQR(qname=query)),verbose=0)

When I print test2 variable is shows correct binary notation representation.

How do I convert a string such as He so that is shows in the checksum notation accepted by scapy, of 0x4865 ??

RoraΖ
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>>> test
'0b100100001100101'
>>> type(test)
<type 'str'>
>>> test2
18533
>>> type(test2)
<type 'int'>

bin() returns a string. Remove the bin() to get an integer, and use that for the chksum input. The following sent out the packet correctly for me:

from binascii import hexlify
from scapy.all import *

test2 = int(hexlify('He'),16)
send(IP(dst='127.0.0.1')/UDP(dport=53, chksum=test2)/DNS(rd=1, qd=DNSQR(qname="query")),verbose=0)
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    You answered this. Thanks. I had confused the bin() at beginning. When I removed it, it returned what I needed and now works. – Robert Aug 14 '17 at 19:28