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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

Evasion – tamper scripts


Tamper scripts are basically used in the evasion of simple filters and Web Application Firewalls (WAFs). They are a collection of in-built scripts which modify the injection vector used by SQLMap. There are cases when WAF detects the injection vectors and blocks the whole process. The following table gives a brief description of various tamper scripts and their usage. The comprehensive table was fabricated by Jake Rogers at http://www.forkbombers.com/ so the entire credit goes to him.

Name

Description

apostrophemask.py

Replaces the apostrophe character with its UTF-8 full width counterpart.

apostrophenullencode.py

Replaces the apostrophe character with its illegal double unicode counterpart.

appendnullbyte.py

Appends the encoded NULL byte character at the end of the payload.

base64encode.py

Base64 all characters in a given payload.

between.py

Replaces greater than operator (>) with NOT BETWEEN 0 AND #.

bluecoat.py

Replaces the space character...