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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

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

Setup of vulnerable web applications


In order for us to commence with this chapter, the reader will have to download the following vulnerable apps:

  • Xtreme Vulnerable Web Application 
  • OWASP Broken Web Applications

Setting up Xtreme Vulnerable Web Application

In order to set up the Xtreme Vulnerable Web Application, follow these steps:

  1. Download the Xtreme Vulnerable Web Application; visit https://download.vulnhub.com/xvwa/ and click on xvwa.iso
  2. Once downloaded, open VirtualBox and click on New:
  1. Set the name of the new virtual machine. We have given it the following name:
  1. Provide around 1024 MB of RAM, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. Next, select the option Do not add a virtual Hard Disk, as shown in the following screenshot: 

 

  1. The image will be created. Now go to the setting options of the newly created VM, as follows:
  1. Select the Storage and click on the Empty CD ROM under the Controller: IDE, and then select the CD icon from the attribute and give the path to the xvwa.iso. Also make the setting...