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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)

Questions

  1. What's a good tool for finding hidden directories and secret files on a site?
  2. How and where can you find a map of the site's architecture? How can you create one if it's not already there?
  3. How can you safely create a map of an application's attack surface without using scanners or automated scripts?
  4. What's a common resource in Python for scraping websites?
  5. What are some advantages to writing scripts according to the Unix philosophy (single-purpose, connectable, built around text)?
  6. What's a good resource for finding XSS submissions, SQLi snippets, and other fuzzing inputs?
  7. What's a good resource for discovering DNS info associated with a target?