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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite
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Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

by Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
February 2019
Beginner to intermediate
366 pages
7h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite

Looking for entry points

The DHL application looks like this:

Straight away, we can see different inputs to test, for example, the search bar and the tracking box, but look at the following request:

 

In this request, we can see some variables, but to determine which of them can be used as injection points, we need to analyze the behavior they have, as follows:

  • brand: It looks like the application supports some companies, so maybe "DHL" is part of a catalog, and it could be susceptible to injection.
  • AWB: This variable is a tracking number, ...
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