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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Over 80 recipes on how to identify, exploit, and test web application security with Kali Linux 2

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2016
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ISBN-13 9781784392918
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up Kali Linux FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Crawlers and Spiders 4. Finding Vulnerabilities 5. Automated Scanners 6. Exploitation – Low Hanging Fruits 7. Advanced Exploitation 8. Man in the Middle Attacks 9. Client-Side Attacks and Social Engineering 10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Index

Scanning with w3af


W3af stands for Web Application Audit and Attack Framework. It is an open source, Python-based Web vulnerability scanner. It has a GUI and a command-line interface, both with the same functionality. In this recipe, we will perform a vulnerability scan using W3af's GUI to configure the scanning and reporting options.

How to do it...

  1. To start W3af, we can select it from the Applications menu by navigating to Applications | 03 Web Application Analysis | w3af. or from the terminal:

    w3af_gui
    
  2. In the Profiles section, we select full_audit.

  3. In the plugins section, go to crawl and select web_spider (the one that is checked) inside it.

  4. We don't want the scanner to test all the servers, just the application we tell it to. In the plugin description, check the only_forward option and click on Save.

  5. Now, we will tell W3af to generate an HTML report when the scan is finished. Go to output plugins and check html_file.

  6. To select the file name and where to save the report, modify the output_file...

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