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Burp Suite Cookbook
Burp Suite Cookbook

Burp Suite Cookbook: Practical recipes to help you master web penetration testing with Burp Suite

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Burp Suite Cookbook

Getting to Know the Burp Suite of Tools

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

  • Setting the Target Site Map
  • Understanding Message Editor
  • Repeating with Repeater
  • Decoding with Decoder
  • Intruding with Intruder

Introduction

This chapter provides overviews of the most commonly used tools within Burp Suite. The chapter begins by establishing the Target scope within the Target Site Map. This is followed by an introduction to the Message Editor. Then, there will be some hands-on recipes using OWASP Mutillidae II to get acquainted with Proxy, Repeater, Decoder, and Intruder.

Software tool requirements

Setting the Target Site Map

Now that we have traffic flowing between your browser, Burp, and the OWASP BWA virtual machine, we can begin setting the scope of our test. For this recipe, we will use the OWASP Mutillidae II link (http://<Your_VM_Assigned_IP_Address>/mutillidae/) available in the OWASP BWA VM as our target application.

Looking more closely at the Target tab, you will notice there are two subtabs available: Site map and Scope. From the initial proxy setup between your browser, Burp, and the web server, you should now have some URLs, folders, and files shown in the Target | Site map tab. You may find the amount of information overwhelming, but setting the scope for our project will help to focus our attention better.

Getting ready

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Understanding the Message Editor

On almost every tool and tab within Burp Suite that display an HTTP message, you will see an editor identifying the request and response. This is commonly referred to as the Message Editor. The Message Editor allows viewing and editing HTTP requests and responses with specialties.

Within the Message Editor are multiple subtabs. The subtabs for a request message, at a minimum, include the following:

  • Raw
  • Headers
  • Hex

The subtabs for a response message include the following:

  • Raw
  • Headers
  • Hex
  • HTML (sometimes)
  • Render (sometimes)

The Raw tab gives you the message in its raw HTTP form. The Headers tab displays HTTP header parameters in tabular format. The parameters are editable, and columns can be added, removed, or modified in the table within tools such as Proxy and Repeater.

For requests containing parameters or cookies, the Params tab is present...

Repeating with Repeater

Repeater allows for slight changes or tweaks to the request, and it is displayed in the left-hand window. A Go button allows the request to be reissued, and the response is displayed in the right-hand window.

Details related to your HTTP request include standard Message Editor details such as Raw, Params (for requests with parameters or cookies), Headers, and Hex.

Details related to the HTTP Response include standard Message Editor details including Raw, Headers, Hex, and, sometimes, HTML and Render.

At the bottom of each panel is a search-text box, allowing the tester to quickly find a value present in a message.

Getting ready

Repeater allows you to manually modify and then re-issue an individual HTTP...

Decoding with Decoder

Burp Decoder is a tool that allows the tester to convert raw data into encoded data or to take encoded data and convert it back to plain text. Decoder supports several formats including URL encoding, HTML encoding, Base64 encoding, binary code, hashed data, and others. Decoder also includes a built-in hex editor.

Getting ready

As a web penetration test progresses, a tester might happen upon an encoded value. Burp eases the decoding process by allowing the tester to send the encoded value to Decoder and try the various decoding functions available.

How to do it...

...

Intruding with Intruder

The Burp Intruder allows a tester to brute-force or fuzz specific portions of an HTTP message, using customized payloads.

To properly set up customized attacks in Intruder, a tester will need to use the settings available in the four subtabs of Intruder:

Getting ready

A tester may wish to fuzz or brute-force parameter values within a message. Burp Intruder eases this process by providing various intruder attack styles, payloads, and options.

How to do it...

  1. Browse to the login screen of Mutillidae and attempt to log into the application. For...
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Key benefits

  • Explore the tools in Burp Suite to meet your web infrastructure security demands
  • Configure Burp to fine-tune the suite of tools specific to the target
  • Use Burp extensions to assist with different technologies commonly found in application stacks

Description

Burp Suite is a Java-based platform for testing the security of your web applications, and has been adopted widely by professional enterprise testers. The Burp Suite Cookbook contains recipes to tackle challenges in determining and exploring vulnerabilities in web applications. You will learn how to uncover security flaws with various test cases for complex environments. After you have configured Burp for your environment, you will use Burp tools such as Spider, Scanner, Intruder, Repeater, and Decoder, among others, to resolve specific problems faced by pentesters. You will also explore working with various modes of Burp and then perform operations on the web. Toward the end, you will cover recipes that target specific test scenarios and resolve them using best practices. By the end of the book, you will be up and running with deploying Burp for securing web applications.

Who is this book for?

If you are a security professional, web pentester, or software developer who wants to adopt Burp Suite for applications security, this book is for you.

What you will learn

  • Configure Burp Suite for your web applications
  • Perform authentication, authorization, business logic, and data validation testing
  • Explore session management and client-side testing
  • Understand unrestricted file uploads and server-side request forgery
  • Execute XML external entity attacks with Burp
  • Perform remote code execution with Burp

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Table of Contents

12 Chapters
Getting Started with Burp Suite Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Getting to Know the Burp Suite of Tools Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Configuring, Spidering, Scanning, and Reporting with Burp Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Assessing Authentication Schemes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Assessing Authorization Checks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Assessing Session Management Mechanisms Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Assessing Business Logic Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Evaluating Input Validation Checks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Attacking the Client Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Working with Burp Macros and Extensions Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Implementing Advanced Topic Attacks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Good book. Still reading it!
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Sunny book is easy to follow for anyone that is looking to get into Web App Pens Testing and would like to learn real live example that they can practice in their own Virtual Machine. The book is easy to follow and the example are thing you will see when you start doing Web App Pens Testing.
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This is a good book, Dr. Wear has presented an easy to use cookbook (no better word for it) on utilizing Burp Suite and the basics of web app pentesting. It covers setup of Burp, configuration, suggested plugins, and specific attacks that are useful in starting your career. If you practice these exercises you should do well in entry level web app pentest exercises.
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This book is great and easy to understand. Sunny does a great job of walking you through the process and making it all make sense. This is a must have for anyone that needs to understand web app security.
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Great place to start, and return, with a popular and effective tool. Sunny covers all the key factors in a no nonsense fashion.
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