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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

Shodan


Before I begin, I must say Shodan is a one-of-a-kind search engine. In their own words, it is the world's first computer search engine, often dubbed as the search engine for hackers. We can use Shodan to find different types of information about a target.

Let us to do a search on web servers running Microsoft IIS running version 8.0 through Shodan:

Shodan presented us with a page listing entries it has in its database. Shodan provides a very decent and useful way to filter our result by the following criterion:

  • TOP COUNTRIES

  • TOP SERVICES

  • TOP ORGANIZATIONS

  • TOP OPERATING SYSTEMS

  • TOP PRODUCTS

Recently there was a publicly disclosed code execution flaw inside a Python-based debugger known as Werkzeug Debugger. We can give Shodan a shot and find out the computers running Werkzeug:

There we go! There is the list of computers running the vulnerable debugger.

Now let's find some ZTE OX253P routers. This particular brand of router is used widely by BSNL in India for providing WiMAX services...