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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

By : Michael McPhee
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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

By: Michael McPhee

Overview of this book

You will start by delving into some common web application architectures in use, both in private and public cloud instances. You will also learn about the most common frameworks for testing, such as OWASP OGT version 4, and how to use them to guide your efforts. In the next section, you will be introduced to web pentesting with core tools and you will also see how to make web applications more secure through rigorous penetration tests using advanced features in open source tools. The book will then show you how to better hone your web pentesting skills in safe environments that can ensure low-risk experimentation with the powerful tools and features in Kali Linux that go beyond a typical script-kiddie approach. After establishing how to test these powerful tools safely, you will understand how to better identify vulnerabilities, position and deploy exploits, compromise authentication and authorization, and test the resilience and exposure applications possess. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with the web service architecture to identify and evade various protection mechanisms that are used on the Web today. You will leave this book with a greater mastery of essential test techniques needed to verify the secure design, development, and operation of your customers' web applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Injecting some fun into your testing

Injection attacks are numerous, but because they all insert code that they know will be transported into the application or database tiers for execution, they have an impact that earns injections a #1 ranking from the OWASP Top 10. We'll cover the big ones here, but know that the scanning and testing approaches are very similar, in that we'll leverage automation to both probe each portal for signs of weakness and to pass best-practice based strings against any potential flaws to test against them. Before we get into the varieties of injection, it helps to step back and look at how OWASP characterizes them. The following screenshot comes from their latest release candidate of the OWASP 2017 Top 10 List (https://github.com/OWASP/Top10/blob/master/2017/OWASP%20Top%2010%20-%202017%20RC1-English.pdf):

OWASP's Injection Attack Characterization...