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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

By : Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
Book Image

Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

By: Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar

Overview of this book

Burp suite is a set of graphic tools focused towards penetration testing of web applications. Burp suite is widely used for web penetration testing by many security professionals for performing different web-level security tasks. The book starts by setting up the environment to begin an application penetration test. You will be able to configure the client and apply target whitelisting. You will also learn to setup and configure Android and IOS devices to work with Burp Suite. The book will explain how various features of Burp Suite can be used to detect various vulnerabilities as part of an application penetration test. Once detection is completed and the vulnerability is confirmed, you will be able to exploit a detected vulnerability using Burp Suite. The book will also covers advanced concepts like writing extensions and macros for Burp suite. Finally, you will discover various steps that are taken to identify the target, discover weaknesses in the authentication mechanism, and finally break the authentication implementation to gain access to the administrative console of the application. By the end of this book, you will be able to effectively perform end-to-end penetration testing with Burp Suite.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
About Packt
Preface
12
Exploiting and Exfiltrating Data from a Large Shipping Corporation
Index

Working with target exclusions


Just as we can add items to scope in Burp, we can also add items that need to be explicitly set out of scope. This, as is the case with in-scope items, can be added via two methods. The first is via the Proxy | History tab from the right-click context menu:

The second is from the Target scope tab in the Exclude from scope section. For example, if you want to exclude all sub-directories and files under /javascript, then the following options can be applied:

  • Protocol: HTTP
  • Host or IP range: mutillidae-testing.cxm
  • Port: ^80$
  • File: ^/javascript/.*

This will exclude all URLs under the /javascript/ directory on port 80 with the HTTP protocol.

You can also load a file containing a list of URLs that need to be excluded from scope via the Load button on the Target | Scope page. This list must be URLs/targets separated by newlines.

Both the Include in scope option and Exclude from scope option are case insensitive. /javascript/, /JavaScript/, and /jAvAscrIPt/ all mean the same for the Target | Scope feature of Burp.