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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


Metasploit will get more powerful in the years to come. To learn more about MSF, it is recommended that readers go through the free course on Metasploit run by the creators of Kali Linux, that is, Offensive Security – Metasploit Unleashed at:

https://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/

Meterpreter is an amazing shell and when powered by useful post exploitation modules, it becomes a cakewalk to dump and gather vast amounts of data from a server. I suggest the readers practice and perform trials with Meterpreter in a simulated environment like Metasploitable – A vulnerable Linux server to discover hidden treasures inside it.

In the last section of this chapter I demonstrated how we can dive into Linux Meterpreter from a normal PHP one via backgrounding the existing PHP session. Although this works effectively, in some cases the session dies before we can configure the handler for the Linux session. To avoid this, please run two separate terminals for each type of payload...