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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

Discovering Blind SQL injection


The URL that we will be analyzing is www.dhl.com. This is the international page, but if you visualize the regional websites, they are similar, so it is possible that a vulnerability in one of them replicates others. This happens to a lot of companies that have operations in various countries. Actually, sometimes the company has a different representation in a different country, but the web application is the same.

To determine whether dhl.com has an SQL injection, we will do three different analyses:

  • Automatic scan
  • SQLMap detection
  • Intruder detection

Automatic scan

The simplest way to detect vulnerabilities such as SQL injections is by using Burp Suite's scanner:

  1. To launch the scan, open Burp Suite, go to the main Dashboard, and click on New scan:

There is an option that we did not explore previously, which is used to control the scope during a scan. Imagine that your scope is not all of the DHL website—it is just www.dhl.com, but there are other applications, such...