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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

By : Joe Marshall, Himanshu Sharma
Book Image

Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

By: Joe Marshall, Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

Bug bounties have quickly become a critical part of the security economy. This book shows you how technical professionals with an interest in security can begin productively—and profitably—participating in bug bounty programs. You will learn about SQli, NoSQLi, XSS, XXE, and other forms of code injection. You’ll see how to create CSRF PoC HTML snippets, how to discover hidden content (and what to do with it once it’s found), and how to create the tools for automated pentesting work?ows. Then, you’ll format all of this information within the context of a bug report that will have the greatest chance of earning you cash. With detailed walkthroughs that cover discovering, testing, and reporting vulnerabilities, this book is ideal for aspiring security professionals. You should come away from this work with the skills you need to not only find the bugs you're looking for, but also the best bug bounty programs to participate in, and how to grow your skills moving forward in freelance security research.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Paid Versus Free Editions – What Makes a Tool Worth It?

Evaluating whether to start paying for a security tool is just an extension of the process of deciding whether to adopt it in the first place, except with more emphasis on relative impact.

Burp Suite Pro is undeniably a useful extension of the community version. You get the scanner, which integrates tightly with Burp's scoping and attack surface mapping features, and advanced manual tools, such as the ability to generate a CSRF from an intercepted HTTP request (which we'll cover later in this chapter), along with other goodies.

But as we showed in our chapter on CSRF, generating a CSRF PoC is pretty easy to automate yourself, in a way that better integrates with tools outside of Burp. If you don't find yourself needing the other advanced manual tools, then it basically comes down to the scanner. Even...