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Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook

You're reading from Kali Linux Web Penetration Testing Cookbook Identify, exploit, and prevent web application vulnerabilities with Kali Linux 2018.x

Product type Paperback

Published in Aug 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788991513

Length 404 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

C

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Author (1):

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez

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Table of Contents (12) Chapters

Preface

1. Setting Up Kali Linux and the Testing Lab FREE CHAPTER

2. Reconnaissance

3. Using Proxies, Crawlers, and Spiders

4. Testing Authentication and Session Management

5. Cross-Site Scripting and Client-Side Attacks

6. Exploiting Injection Vulnerabilities

7. Exploiting Platform Vulnerabilities

8. Using Automated Scanners

9. Bypassing Basic Security Controls

10. Mitigation of OWASP Top 10 Vulnerabilities

11. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Finding files and folders with DirBuster

DirBuster is a tool created to discover, by brute force or by comparison with a wordlist, the existing files and directories in a web server. We will use it in this recipe to search for a specific list of files and directories.

Getting ready

We will use a text file that contains the list of words that we will ask DirBuster to look for. Create a text file, dir_dictionary.txt, containing the following:

info 
server-status 
server-info 
cgi-bin 
robots.txt 
phpmyadmin 
admin 
login

How to do it...

DirBuster is an application made...

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Authors (1)

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez

Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez is an experienced penetration tester currently working for one of the top security testing service providers in Australia. He obtained leading security and penetration testing certifications, namely Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP), EC-Council Certified Security Administrator (ECSA), and GIAC Exploit Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN).

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