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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

Setting up the development environment


To develop your own extensions, you can use open source integrated development environments (IDEs), such as NetBeans or Eclipse. Choose the most comfortable IDE for yourself. In this case, we will use NetBeans:

  1. Go to the NetBeans website (https://netbeans.org/) and download the latest version. Installation is not needed since NetBeans is developed in Java and distributed as a JAR file; just unzip the download file and click on the netbeans-bin icon, as demonstrated in the following screenshot:
  1. Before starting to work with NetBeans, go to https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/ and download the latest version of the Java Developer Kit (JDK). This is the Java package needed to develop projects in Java, and is different compared to the Java Virtual Machine (JVM).
  1. Install the JDK I recommend using the default directories. After installation, open NetBeans and click on Install Features. NetBeans will display a screen where there are different...