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Burp Suite Cookbook

By : Sunny Wear
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Burp Suite Cookbook

By: Sunny Wear

Overview of this book

Burp Suite is a Java-based platform for testing the security of your web applications, and has been adopted widely by professional enterprise testers. The Burp Suite Cookbook contains recipes to tackle challenges in determining and exploring vulnerabilities in web applications. You will learn how to uncover security flaws with various test cases for complex environments. After you have configured Burp for your environment, you will use Burp tools such as Spider, Scanner, Intruder, Repeater, and Decoder, among others, to resolve specific problems faced by pentesters. You will also explore working with various modes of Burp and then perform operations on the web. Toward the end, you will cover recipes that target specific test scenarios and resolve them using best practices. By the end of the book, you will be up and running with deploying Burp for securing web applications.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Performing Java deserialization attacks

Serialization is a mechanism provided in various languages that allows the saving of an object's state in binary format. It is used for speed and obfuscation. The turning of an object back from binary into an object is deserialization. In cases where user input is used within an object and that object is later serialized, it creates an attack vector for arbitrary code-injection and possible remote code-execution. We will look at a Burp extension that will assist web-penetration testers in assessing applications for Java Deserialization vulnerabilities.

Getting Ready

Using OWASP Mutillidae II and a hand-crafted serialized code snippet, we will demonstrate how to use the Java Serial...