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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

theHarvester


theHarvester is an open source reconnaissance tool, it can dig out heaps of information, comprising of subdomains, email addresses, employee names, open ports, and so on. theHarvester mainly makes use of passive techniques and sometimes active techniques as well.

Let's run this amazing tool against my homepage:

theharvester –d prakharprasad.com –b google

Look at this! theHarvester found out a list of subdomains and an email address. We may use this email address to perform client side exploitation or phishing, but that's a different topic. The tool only utilized Google as a source of data to reveal this much information.

We can control the sources of data to be used with theHarvester by using the -b switch. The sources of data that theHarvester supports are:

google, googleCSE, bing, bingapi, pgp, linkedin, google-profiles, people123, jigsaw,twitter, googleplus, all

Let us try to run theHarvester on my domain and provide the data source as LinkedIn. Let's see what happens next...