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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

WhatWeb


We can use WhatWeb, which is an active recon tool, to get basic information about a website.

WhatWeb listed cookies, country, and uncommon headers related to my website.

Maltego

Maltego is an Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) tool developed by Paterva. It's a commercial tool, however the community edition comes by default alongside Kali Linux. We'll be using the community edition for this demonstration.

Maltego can be launched from the Information Gathering section of Kali Linux's Application menu. During the first launch, Maltego will ask you to register for the community edition license or login directly if already registered. This step must be done to access and run Maltego.

After the basic formalities are done, we can run Maltego again and we'll be presented with a dialog asking us the choice of machine to run. Machines are different categories or genres of information gathering we're interested in.

In the dialog, we're presented with different machines or information gathering categories...