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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

By : Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
Book Image

Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

By: Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar

Overview of this book

Burp suite is a set of graphic tools focused towards penetration testing of web applications. Burp suite is widely used for web penetration testing by many security professionals for performing different web-level security tasks. The book starts by setting up the environment to begin an application penetration test. You will be able to configure the client and apply target whitelisting. You will also learn to setup and configure Android and IOS devices to work with Burp Suite. The book will explain how various features of Burp Suite can be used to detect various vulnerabilities as part of an application penetration test. Once detection is completed and the vulnerability is confirmed, you will be able to exploit a detected vulnerability using Burp Suite. The book will also covers advanced concepts like writing extensions and macros for Burp suite. Finally, you will discover various steps that are taken to identify the target, discover weaknesses in the authentication mechanism, and finally break the authentication implementation to gain access to the administrative console of the application. By the end of this book, you will be able to effectively perform end-to-end penetration testing with Burp Suite.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Contributors
About Packt
Preface
12
Exploiting and Exfiltrating Data from a Large Shipping Corporation
Index

Chapter 10. Writing Burp Suite Extensions

Other HTTP proxies offer good performance, but, Burp Suite is indisputably the best tool due to its extension capability. As we have seen in the previous chapters, extensions add a lot of functions, and so they can be focused on one particular problem.

The ability to create extensions provides great help to the user in automating testing activities. Burp Suite supports Java, Python, and Ruby to develop extensions, so it is flexible in providing easy access for developers.

In this chapter, we will review the development process of a new extension and provide some tricks and tips for doing so on our Burp Suite installation.

We will cover the following topics in the chapter:

  • Setting up the development environment
  • Writing a Burp Suite extension
  • Executing the extension