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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

DirBuster


DirBuster is a file/directory brute-forcer. It's written in Java and programmed by the members of the OWASP community. It's a GUI application and comes with Kali Linux. DirBuster supports multithreading and is capable of brute-forcing targets at insane speeds.

DirBuster project: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_DirBuster_Project.

The GUI of this tool is straightforward as it provides a ton of options for brute-forcing. It can go up to 100 threads which is amazingly fast, provided that there is proper bandwidth supplied.

It comes with a set of wordlists for different requirements and conditions.

Let us run DirBuster against my website to look around for files/folders:

It found out some directories and files and although there a few false positives, not all results are incorrect. One thing that must be taken care of when using DirBuster is that it generates a lot of traffic which can easily slow down small websites, so the threads must be properly set to avoid taking down...