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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

Data exfiltration via a blind Boolean-based SQL injection


An SQL injection is a vulnerability based on an input validation error, which allows a malicious user to insert unexpected SQL statements into an application to perform different actions on it. For example, extract information, delete data or modify the original statements.

There are three types of SQL injections, as follows:

  • In-band SQL injection: This type of SQL injection has the characteristic that is possible to analyze using the same channel used to send the statement. It means that the response generated by the database management system (DBMS) is received in the same analyzedapplication.
  • Inferential: This type of SQL injection is different from the previous one, as it is not possible to see the errors or the results in the application's response. We need to infer what is happening in the application's backend or use external channels to get the information. At the same time, into the inferential SQL injections are further divided...