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Practical Web Penetration Testing

By : Gus Khawaja
Book Image

Practical Web Penetration Testing

By: Gus Khawaja

Overview of this book

Companies all over the world want to hire professionals dedicated to application security. Practical Web Penetration Testing focuses on this very trend, teaching you how to conduct application security testing using real-life scenarios. To start with, you’ll set up an environment to perform web application penetration testing. You will then explore different penetration testing concepts such as threat modeling, intrusion test, infrastructure security threat, and more, in combination with advanced concepts such as Python scripting for automation. Once you are done learning the basics, you will discover end-to-end implementation of tools such as Metasploit, Burp Suite, and Kali Linux. Many companies deliver projects into production by using either Agile or Waterfall methodology. This book shows you how to assist any company with their SDLC approach and helps you on your journey to becoming an application security specialist. By the end of this book, you will have hands-on knowledge of using different tools for penetration testing.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Metasploit Cheat Sheet

Privilege escalation

After exploiting a vulnerability, most of the time, you will get a limited shell. The next step is to get an admin account on the victim machine. To accomplish this, you will need to choose one of the following methodologies:

  • Transfer a file to the victim machine to allow you to have a root shell (for example, Dirty COW)
  • Copy–pasting a PowerShell payload for Windows OS (for example, Empire PowerShell)
  • Using Metasploit/Meterpreter to escalate the privileges (refer to Appendix B)
  • Manually searching for misconfigured parameters in order to get an admin/root shell

File transfers

Let's look at a practical scenario. Say you just got a limited shell into the victim's machine. You know that...