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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

Summary


This chapter covered different ways in which we can utilize SQLMap to exploit the SQL injection flaws. SQL injection is a critical issue from a security standpoint and most breaches and data leaks we see today are as a result of this. For additional reading I'd like to suggest a book called SQL Injection Attacks and Defense by Justin Clarke and a comprehensive video series by Audi-1 himself, available at http://www.securitytube.net/user/Audi.

SQLMap has some awesome switches like --levels and --risks which can be looked up; these provide SQLMap additional tests to perform while looking for injection points; some switches are more elite, like the --os-pwn which grants an immediate Meterpreter shell of Metasploit. Please do read their official documentation in which the entire set of the SQLMap switch has been mentioned; it's available here:

https://github.com/sqlmapproject/sqlmap/wiki/Usage

Metasploit is covered in Chapter 7, Metasploit and Web and I hope the reader will mess around...