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Burp Suite Cookbook

You're reading from Burp Suite Cookbook Web application security made easy with Burp Suite

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781835081075

Length 450 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

XML

Tools

Burp Suite

Concepts

Application Security

Author (1):

Dr. Sunny Wear

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Burp Suite FREE CHAPTER

2. Chapter 2: Getting to Know the Burp Suite of Tools

3. Chapter 3: Configuring, Crawling, Auditing, and Reporting with Burp

4. Chapter 4: Assessing Authentication Schemes

5. Chapter 5: Assessing Authorization Checks

6. Chapter 6: Assessing Session Management Mechanisms

7. Chapter 7: Assessing Business Logic

8. Chapter 8: Evaluating Input Validation Checks

9. Chapter 9: Attacking the Client

10. Chapter 10: Working with Burp Suite Macros and Extensions

11. Chapter 11: Implementing Advanced Topic Attacks

12. Index

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Establishing trust over HTTPS

Since most websites implement (HTTPS, it is beneficial to know how to enable Burp Suite to communicate with such sites. HTTPS is an encrypted tunnel running over Hypertext Transport Protocol (HTTP).

The purpose of HTTPS is to encrypt traffic between the client browser and the web application to prevent eavesdropping. However, as testers, we wish to allow Burp Suite to eavesdrop since that is the point of using an intercepting proxy. Burp Suite provides a root Certificate Authority (CA) signed certificate. This certificate can be used to establish trust between Burp Suite and the target web application.

By default, Burp’s Proxy can generate a per-target CA certificate when establishing an encrypted handshake with a target running over HTTPS. That takes care of the Burp-to-web-application portion of the tunnel. We also need to address the browser-to-Burp portion.

To create a complete HTTPS tunnel connection between the client browser, Burp...

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Authors (1)

Dr. Sunny Wear

Dr. Sunny Wear

Dr. Sunny Wear is a web security architect and penetration tester. She provides secure coding classes, creates software, and performs penetration testing on web/API and mobile applications. Sunny has more than 25 years of hands-on software programming, architecture, and security experience and holds a Doctor of Science in Cybersecurity. She is a content creator on Pluralsight, with three courses on Burp Suite. She is a published author, a developer of mobile apps such as Burp Tool Buddy, and a content creator on courses related to web security and penetration testing. She regularly speaks and holds classes at security conferences such as Defcon, Hackfest, and BSides.

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