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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

By : Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
Book Image

Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

By: Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar

Overview of this book

Burp suite is a set of graphic tools focused towards penetration testing of web applications. Burp suite is widely used for web penetration testing by many security professionals for performing different web-level security tasks. The book starts by setting up the environment to begin an application penetration test. You will be able to configure the client and apply target whitelisting. You will also learn to setup and configure Android and IOS devices to work with Burp Suite. The book will explain how various features of Burp Suite can be used to detect various vulnerabilities as part of an application penetration test. Once detection is completed and the vulnerability is confirmed, you will be able to exploit a detected vulnerability using Burp Suite. The book will also covers advanced concepts like writing extensions and macros for Burp suite. Finally, you will discover various steps that are taken to identify the target, discover weaknesses in the authentication mechanism, and finally break the authentication implementation to gain access to the administrative console of the application. By the end of this book, you will be able to effectively perform end-to-end penetration testing with Burp Suite.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
About Packt
Preface
12
Exploiting and Exfiltrating Data from a Large Shipping Corporation
Index

Reconnaissance and file discovery


In this module, we are going to see how to do reconnaissance to detect files and folders in the application via Burp. This phase is important because it helps in mapping the entire site structure, since there could be certain folders that aren't available via site hyperlinks but are at times available on the application. Often people end up finding a lot of sensitive folders and files hosted on the web application under the scope. The capability to detect such files and folders totally depends upon the strength of the wordlist available. Let us go ahead and see how we can do this using Burp Suite.

 

 

Using Burp for content and file discovery

For this module, we are going to use OWASP BWA and do a discovery of all the files and folders in the set of applications available. We will see how to configure and set up the necessary parameters over Burp to perform a content discovery. 

Start the OWASP BWA VM and note down the IP address, access the application in a...