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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

Configuring with proxies


During penetration tests it's common to use a certain IP address while conducting different kinds of tests and exploitation techniques due to the variety of issues ranging from anonymity to legal aspects.

SQLMap provides the --proxy switch to pass a URL of an HTTP(s) proxy. Let try to understand this.

A valid proxy is in the form of http://url:port. Assuming our proxy is at https://proxy.example.com:8080 we use the --proxy switch as follows:

./sqlmap.py --proxy="https://proxy.example.com:8080" -u "http://vuln.com/?id=1

There is another switch of a similar kind, called the --tor which allows you to configure SQLMap with the Tor Network.