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Burp Suite Essentials

By : Akash Mahajan
Book Image

Burp Suite Essentials

By: Akash Mahajan

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Burp Suite Essentials
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Target Analyzer


The Target Analyzer tool is the perfect example of an engagement tool. Target Analyzer can help you to quickly figure out how many dynamic and static links you are dealing with in a website. It will also tell you how many parameters are required for each of the links. This can be utilized to calculate time and effort required to test the application. Additionally, this can give you a good idea as to what to test first, or what to focus on while starting the application. Do note that Target Analyzer only picks information from the site map, and it does not do any scanning of its own. So, we need to finish the task of mapping the application before we can analyze the target.

Target Analyzer shows the number of dynamic and static URLs. It also mentions the total number of parameters it was able to see, as shown in the following screenshot:

Under the Dynamic URLs tab, we can see the complete list of dynamic URLs. Similarly, under Static URLs, we can see all the listed static URLs...