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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

Executing an out-of-band command injection


As we've mentioned many times, the most important Burp Suite feature is the automation capability. As we will explore later on this book, we can create our own plugins to extend Burp Suite, or we can find a lot of extensions made by the community.

There is an extension called SHELLING, which is focused on the payload list creation for command injection attacks. We'll look at this more closely in the following section.

SHELLING

SHELLING is a plugin that is not available in the BApps Store, so you will need to go the GitHub to get it https://github.com/ewilded/shelling. Download the .jar file and install it using the Extender option in Burp Suite:

  1. To do this, click on the Extender tab, and click on the Manual install button. Burp Suite will launch a window to select the .jar file. Because SHELLING is not included as an official extension, Burp Suite will launch the following warning message to confirm that you want to install it:
  1. After it is installed...