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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 W3af for vulnerability assessment


In this recipe, we will learn how to use to find within a target web application. W3af is a web application attack and audit framework. The project's goal is to create a framework to help you secure your web applications by finding and exploiting all web application vulnerabilities.

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 terminal and type w3af_gui; the w3af window will be as shown in the following screenshot:

 

  1. Select the OWASP_TOP10 option from the profile selector in the left-hand side panel. Enter target URL, as shown in following screenshot:

 

  1. Expand the auth menu, click on the detailed plugin, and enter the username and password (only for HTTP form credentials) and all other required parameters and then click on Save, as shown in the following...
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