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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

Web application firewall detection


In this recipe, we learn to use a tool called WAFW00F. WAFW00F and fingerprints web application firewall (WAF) products.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will an Internet connection.

How to do it...

  1. WAFW00F is fairly simple and easy to use. Just open the terminal and enter the following command:
wafw00f https://www.microsoft.com

The output will be as shown in the following screenshot:

  1. Similarly, you can just keep changing the target domain to find the existence of the web application firewall.

How it works...

In this recipe, we have used WAFW00F to identify if we do have any web application firewall running. Detecting a web application firewall accurately can help you save a lot of hours later, during penetration testing.

WAFW00F works in the way:

  • It sends a normal request and analyzes the response; this identifies a number of WAF solutions
  • If that is not successful, it sends a number of (potentially malicious) HTTP requests and uses simple logic to deduce...
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