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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

Speeding up the process!


Until now, we've only seen the old-school singe-threaded operation of SQLMap, but in real life we may need to speed up these things as there can be hundreds of rows present inside a table, if not thousands. Using a single thread and no method to optimize the dumping process will result in SQLMap taking forever to complete. Luckily the developers of SQLMap have provided us with four types of optimization techniques as follows:

  • Multi-threading

  • NULL connections

  • HTTP persistent connections

  • Output prediction

Multi-threading

As we have already mentioned, SQLMap runs on only one single thread, which is darn slow. We can utilize the --threads switch and specify a value for the number of threads, which ranges from 1 to 10. Increasing the thread count can dramatically increase the overall performance of SQLMap.

Let's try that out. First let's try to dump all the tables under the database security without the --threads option alongside the time Linux utility to track and monitor the...