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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

Dictionary attacks on login pages with Burp Suite


Burp Suite's Intruder has the ability to perform fuzzing and bruteforce attacks against as many parts of an HTTP request as we want to; it is particularly useful when performing dictionary attacks against login pages.

In this recipe, we will use Burp Suite's Intruder with the dictionary we generated in Chapter 2, Reconnaissance, to gain access through a login.

Getting ready

Having a password list is necessary for this recipe, it can be a simple word list from the language the target is in, a list of the most common passwords, or the list we generated in the Using John the Ripper to generate a dictionary recipe in Chapter 2, Reconnaissance.

How to do it...

  1. The first step is to set up Burp Suite as a proxy to our browser.

  2. Browse to http://192.168.56.102/WackoPicko/admin/index.php.

  3. We will see a login page; let's try and test for both username and password.

  4. Now go to the proxy's history and look for the POST request we just made with the login attempt...

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