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Burp Suite Essentials

You're reading from   Burp Suite Essentials Discover the secrets of web application pentesting using Burp Suite, the best tool for the job

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2014
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781783550111
Length 144 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Akash Mahajan Akash Mahajan
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Akash Mahajan
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Started with Burp FREE CHAPTER 2. Configuring Browsers to Proxy through Burp 3. Setting the Scope and Dealing with Upstream Proxies 4. SSL and Other Advanced Settings 5. Using Burp Tools As a Power User – Part 1 6. Using Burp Tools As a Power User – Part 2 7. Searching, Extracting, Pattern Matching, and More 8. Using Engagement Tools and Other Utilities 9. Using Burp Extensions and Writing Your Own 10. Saving Securely, Backing Up, and Other Maintenance Activities 11. Resources, References, and Links 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...

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