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Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

By : Joe Marshall, Himanshu Sharma
Book Image

Hands-On Bug Hunting for Penetration Testers

By: Joe Marshall, Himanshu Sharma

Overview of this book

Bug bounties have quickly become a critical part of the security economy. This book shows you how technical professionals with an interest in security can begin productively—and profitably—participating in bug bounty programs. You will learn about SQli, NoSQLi, XSS, XXE, and other forms of code injection. You’ll see how to create CSRF PoC HTML snippets, how to discover hidden content (and what to do with it once it’s found), and how to create the tools for automated pentesting work?ows. Then, you’ll format all of this information within the context of a bug report that will have the greatest chance of earning you cash. With detailed walkthroughs that cover discovering, testing, and reporting vulnerabilities, this book is ideal for aspiring security professionals. You should come away from this work with the skills you need to not only find the bugs you're looking for, but also the best bug bounty programs to participate in, and how to grow your skills moving forward in freelance security research.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

SQLi – An End-to-End Example

Returning to arachni, let's point it at webscantest.com/datastore and see what we find, kicking it off with a scan: https://webscantest.com/datastore.

After running the scan (which will take a while), arachni will print out the results to the console and generate an AFR file. The AFRextension stands for Arachni Framework Report and is what arachni uses to store scan results. That AFR file can then be converted to HTML, JSON, XML, or another document format:

We can immediately see there's a vulnerability to explore in greater detail here. This is a good opportunity to use the HTML version of the report, which takes advantage of the browser to visualize the entire scan results.

When you want to analyze the results of your scan, you can generate a zipped HTML file using the arachni_reporter executable:

arachni_reporter some_report.afr...