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Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

By : Prakhar Prasad, Rafay Baloch
Book Image

Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

By: Prakhar Prasad, Rafay Baloch

Overview of this book

Web penetration testing is a growing, fast-moving, and absolutely critical field in information security. This book executes modern web application attacks and utilises cutting-edge hacking techniques with an enhanced knowledge of web application security. We will cover web hacking techniques so you can explore the attack vectors during penetration tests. The book encompasses the latest technologies such as OAuth 2.0, Web API testing methodologies and XML vectors used by hackers. Some lesser discussed attack vectors such as RPO (relative path overwrite), DOM clobbering, PHP Object Injection and etc. has been covered in this book. We'll explain various old school techniques in depth such as XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection through the ever-dependable SQLMap and reconnaissance. Websites nowadays provide APIs to allow integration with third party applications, thereby exposing a lot of attack surface, we cover testing of these APIs using real-life examples. This pragmatic guide will be a great benefit and will help you prepare fully secure applications.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Enumerating Domains, Files, and Resources


In this section we'll try to make use of different kinds of recon technique to do domain enumeration. Finding subdomains of a website can land us in surprising places. I remember a talk by Israeli security researcher, Nir Goldshlager, in which he performed a subdomain enumeration scan on a Google service, out of the bunch of subdomains he found there was one which ran a web application with a publicly disclosed local file inclusion vulnerability. Nir then used this to gain a shell on Google's server. Nir's intention wasn't evil, he reported this vulnerability responsibly to Google's security team.

Let us now learn some information gathering techniques. We'll use both active and passive methods.

The following recon tools will be discussed:

  • Fierce

  • theHarvester

  • SubBrute

  • CeWL – Custom Word List Generator

  • DirBuster

  • WhatWeb

  • Maltego

The following websites will be used for passive enumeration:

  • Wolfram Alpha

  • Shodan

  • DNSdumpster

  • Reverse IP Lookup using YouGetSignal

  • Pentest...