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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

Exploiting Heartbleed vulnerability


In this recipe, we will use our previously compiled Heartbleed exploit to extract information about the vulnerable Bee-box server (https://192.168.56.103:8443/ in this recipe).

The Bee-box virtual machine can be downloaded from https://www.vulnhub.com/entry/bwapp-bee-box-v16,53/ and the installation instructions are there too.

Getting ready

In the previous recipe, we generated an executable from the Heartbleed exploit; we will now use that to exploit the vulnerability on the server.

As Heartbleed is a vulnerability that extracts information from the server's memory, it may be necessary to browse and send requests to the server's HTTPS pages on port 8443 (https://192.168.56.103:8443/) before attempting the exploit in order to have some information to extract.

How to do it...

  1. If we check the TCP port 8443 on Bee-box, we will find it is vulnerable to Heartbleed.

    sslscan 192.168.56.103:8443
    
  2. Now, let's move on to the exploit. Firstly, we move to the folder that contains...

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