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Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

By : Prakhar Prasad, Rafay Baloch
Book Image

Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing

By: Prakhar Prasad, Rafay Baloch

Overview of this book

Web penetration testing is a growing, fast-moving, and absolutely critical field in information security. This book executes modern web application attacks and utilises cutting-edge hacking techniques with an enhanced knowledge of web application security. We will cover web hacking techniques so you can explore the attack vectors during penetration tests. The book encompasses the latest technologies such as OAuth 2.0, Web API testing methodologies and XML vectors used by hackers. Some lesser discussed attack vectors such as RPO (relative path overwrite), DOM clobbering, PHP Object Injection and etc. has been covered in this book. We'll explain various old school techniques in depth such as XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection through the ever-dependable SQLMap and reconnaissance. Websites nowadays provide APIs to allow integration with third party applications, thereby exposing a lot of attack surface, we cover testing of these APIs using real-life examples. This pragmatic guide will be a great benefit and will help you prepare fully secure applications.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Mastering Modern Web Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Information gathering techniques


Classically speaking, information gathering techniques consist of the following two classes:

  • Active techniques

  • Passive techniques

Active techniques

Typically, an active technique is connecting to our target for gaining information. This may include running port scans, enumerating files, and so on. Active techniques can be detected by the target, so care must be taken to ensure that we don't perform unnecessary techniques that generate a lot of noise. They could be picked up by the firewall of the target, and prolonged scans to enumerate information can even slow down the target for regular users.

Passive techniques

Using passive techniques, we make use of third party websites and tools that don't contact the target for harvesting data for our reconnaissance purposes. Websites like Shodan and Google can purge a lot of data for a website, properly utilizing these can be extremely beneficial for getting information that can be later used in exploiting the target....