Using the infamous Burp

Burp has been around for years now; it is a collection of multiple tools that were built into Java by PortSwigger web security. It has various products, such as a decoder, proxy, scanner, intruder, and repeater. Burp features an extender that allows a user to load different extensions, which can be used to make pentesting even more efficient. We will learn about some of them in the following recipes.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. Kali already has a free version of Burp, but we need a full version to fully use its features. Let's open up Burp:

2. Click on Start Burp and Burp will load up, as shown in the following screenshot:

3. Before we start hunting for bugs, let...