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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

Using ZAP's spider

Downloading a full site to a directory in our computer leaves us with a static copy of the information; this means that we have the output produced by different requests, but we neither have such requests nor the response states of the server. To have a record of that information, we have spiders, such as the one integrated in OWASP ZAP.

In this recipe, we will use ZAP's spider to crawl a directory in our vulnerable_vm and will check on the information it captures.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we need to have the vulnerable_vm and OWASP ZAP running, and the browser should be configured to use ZAP as proxy. This can be done by following the instructions given in the Finding files and folders with ZAP recipe in the previous chapter.

How to do it...

  1. To have ZAP running and the browser using it as a proxy, browse to http://192.168.56.102/bodgeit/.
  2. In the Sites tab, open the folder corresponding to the test site (http://192.168.56.102 in this book).
  3. Right click on GET...
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