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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

Performing information gathering


We are going to start collecting information about the targets. The most basic way to detect information about the technology used in a specific application and to determine potential security issues is to first navigate all through the application, use the normal flows, detect and take note of each entry point in the application, and add the different URLs that are interesting to us to the Scope option in the Target tool.

Port scanning

In a real assessment, an agreement between the person or company that is reviewing the application and the application's owners is established. This is one of the first steps involved in detecting the services.

This task is usually carried out using Nmap (https://nmap.org/), which is a command-line tool that is used to detect ports and services running on a remote host. Using Nmap is not complicated; you can just type nmap on a command line to see all the different options we have, as shown in the following screenshot:

To perform...