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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 3. Executing an Application Penetration Test

Now that we have learned how to configure and set up our Burp Proxy across various platforms, we can now begin to start with an application pentest. In the present world, there are various purposes behind executing a pentest; it could either be for a bug bounty or it could be a fully-fledged assessment for a client. The initial approach is usually the same; ultimately, however, there is a huge difference. Bug bounty hunters aim to find one or a set of particular vulnerabilities that could lead to severe adversities if exploited, so they can claim their bounty.

On the other hand, for a fully-fledged pentest, the job of the pentester does not stop there. The pentester will have to perform a complete assessment and find the different possible flaws in the application, and for such a situation, a complete analysis of the application needs to be done. In this chapter, we are going to first understand why the basic scan is not enough, after which...