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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 out-of-data extraction using XXE and Burp Suite collaborator


Burp Suite collaborator is a service used to detect vulnerabilities mostly when an application tries to interact with external services. Burp Suite analyzes the interactions with external systems and detects unusual behaviors. In order to analyze the application, Burp Suite collaborator sends inputs or payloads to the application and waits for a response.

So, in this case, Burp Suite is working a server, where the application interacts using common services, such as DNS, SMTP, or HTTP.

Using Burp Suite to exploit the vulnerability

Open Burp Suite in the main Dashboard tab, and click on the New scan option, as demonstrated in the following screenshot. Remember that these options are only available in Burp Suite Professional, and not in the Community Edition:

When you use the scanner, Burp Suite tests the application for vulnerabilities. Here, you can modify options about how the scanner did its job, and also configure credentials...