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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is built for professional penetration testing and security auditing. It is the next-generation of BackTrack, the most popular open-source penetration toolkit in the world. Readers will learn how to think like real attackers, exploit systems, and expose vulnerabilities. Even though web applications are developed in a very secure environment and have an intrusion detection system and firewall in place to detect and prevent any malicious activity, open ports are a pre-requisite for conducting online business. These ports serve as an open door for attackers to attack these applications. As a result, penetration testing becomes essential to test the integrity of web-applications. Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux is a hands-on guide that will give you step-by-step methods on finding vulnerabilities and exploiting web applications. "Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux" looks at the aspects of web penetration testing from the mind of an attacker. It provides real-world, practical step-by-step instructions on how to perform web penetration testing exercises. You will learn how to use network reconnaissance to pick your targets and gather information. Then, you will use server-side attacks to expose vulnerabilities in web servers and their applications. Client attacks will exploit the way end users use web applications and their workstations. You will also learn how to use open source tools to write reports and get tips on how to sell penetration tests and look out for common pitfalls. On the completion of this book, you will have the skills needed to use Kali Linux for web penetration tests and expose vulnerabilities on web applications and clients that access them.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Fimap


Fimap is a Python tool that can find, prepare, audit, exploit and Google automatically for local and remote file Inclusion (LFI and RFI) bugs in web applications.

Fimap can be found under Web Applications | Web Vulnerability Scanners | Fimap. When you open Fimap, a terminal window opens displaying the home screen. Fimap has a few plugin options, which you can download by using the following command:

fimap --install –plugins

All available plugins will be displayed as a list, with the option to select one to install or else quit. In the following example, there are two available plugins to install. You will have to run the install command twice to install each plugin individually:

To use Fimap, you first need to determine your target by specifying the URL. There are options for specifying a URL, a list of URLs using Google to acquire URLs, or other methods such as harvesting URLs from other URLs, as well as looking at forms and headers. For the following example, we will target www.thesecurityblogger...