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Practical Web Penetration Testing

You're reading from   Practical Web Penetration Testing Secure web applications using Burp Suite, Nmap, Metasploit, and more

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788624039
Length 294 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Gus Khawaja Gus Khawaja
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Building a Vulnerable Web Application Lab 2. Kali Linux Installation FREE CHAPTER 3. Delving Deep into the Usage of Kali Linux 4. All About Using Burp Suite 5. Understanding Web Application Vulnerabilities 6. Application Security Pre-Engagement 7. Application Threat Modeling 8. Source Code Review 9. Network Penetration Testing 10. Web Intrusion Tests 11. Pentest Automation Using Python 12. Nmap Cheat Sheet 13. Metasploit Cheat Sheet 14. Netcat Cheat Sheet 15. Networking Reference Section 16. Python Quick Reference 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Crawling the web application using Burp Spider

The idea here is simple: all you need to know is how to find all of the pages for the web application of your target scope. There are three ways to accomplish this task:

  • Manually crawling by using the Intruder tool
  • Automatically crawling by using Burp Spider
  • Automatically finding hidden items by using the Discover Content tool

Manually crawling by using the Intruder tool

In some cases you want to run a manual crawling using one of the predefined dictionary file, to do this perform the following steps:

  1. Select the root path; in our example, it's mutillidae, because this is our starting point for crawling. Next, right-click on the request and send it to the Intruder tab:
  2. ...
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