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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

Detecting security misconfigurations


Security misconfigurations are relative. In this category, a lot of possible errors are introduced, and the most simple and accurate way to detect them using Burp Suite is through the scanner.

  1. Open Burp Suite and when the main Dashboard is displayed, click on New scan. Here it is possible to define the URL to scan, and some options, like credentials to log in to the application, as shown in the following screenshot:
  1. The tests are classified by categories. When the scan finishes, we can see that some issues are detected that are related to security misconfiguration, as shown in the following screenshot:

As we can see, there are issues like Unencrypted communications or Clear submission password that we could not detect by analyzing the request, but the scanner marks an issue.

Let's review some common security misconfigurations, which we will look into in detail in the following sections.

Unencrypted communications and clear text protocols

There is a common issue...