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Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook

You're reading from   Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
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ISBN-13 9781783982165
Length 512 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dhruv Shah Dhruv Shah
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Dhruv Shah
Ishan Girdhar Ishan Girdhar
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface
1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment 2. Network Information Gathering FREE CHAPTER 3. Network Vulnerability Assessment 4. Network Exploitation 5. Web Application Information Gathering 6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment 7. Web Application Exploitation 8. System and Password Exploitation 9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation 10. Wireless Exploitation Pen Testing 101 Basics

Using Burp Sequencer to test the session randomness


In this recipe, we will learn how to use the Sequencer tool to check the of the session token in web applications.

Getting ready

To step through this recipe, you will need Kali Linux running on Oracle Virtualbox and an Internet connection. No other prerequisites are required.

How to do it...

For this recipe, you need to perform the following steps:

  1. Open the application in the browser and intercept the request using Burp, as shown in the following screenshot:

 

  1. We need to analyze the response for the request, forward this request, and capture the response from the server, as shown in the following screenshot:

 

  1. Since the has set up Set-Cookie PHPSESSIONID, in order to analyze this token, we need to send it to the sequencer, as shown in the following screenshot:

 

  1. Now open the Burp Sequencer. To check the randomness, Burp needs to know the location cookie in the request and then we will have start the live capture, as shown in the following...
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