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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

Writing a Burp Suite extension


The basic class structure for any Burp Suite extension is in the following code, which is provided by PortSwigger:

package burp; 
 
public class BurpExtender implements IBurpExtender{ 
    public void registerExtenderCallbacks (IBurpExtenderCallbacks callbacks){ 
        // your extension code here 
    } 
} 

This is basically the class definition that is used to create all of Burp Suite's extensions. Now, let's start to modify the code.

Burp Suite's API

Keeping in mind that all extensions are developed by taking the PortSwigger-provided structure (which was previously shown) as the code base, the entry point for your extension is as follows:

void registerExtenderCallbacks (IBurpExtenderCallbacks callbacks); 

If you want to call your own extension, you will need to use the following method:

callbacks.setExtensionName (Your extension name); 

The following code shows the byte utilities. They are useful for managing strings, searching substrings, encoding, decoding, and...