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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

Setting system-wide proxy for non-proxy-aware clients


Non-proxy-aware clients in this context are applications that talk to the internet over HTTPS but do not have an option to set a proxy server so that traffic through them can be captured. These applications use the system proxy settings. This is common with thick client applications on Windows.

In such cases, we can set a system-wide proxy setting to work with our applications. System-wide proxy settings can be set via a command line and through the GUI. However, knowing the command-line options allows you to be able to script them, so that you can switch system-wide proxy settings using bash scripts or batch files, depending on the OS you are on.

Linux or macOS X

To use a proxy on the Linux command line, the environment variables http_proxy, https_proxy, or ftp_proxy have to be set, depending on the traffic type.

To do this effectively, the following commands have to be run:

$ export http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8080
$ export https_proxy=...