Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite
by Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
Using Intruder
I think Intruder is the most flexible of Burp Suite's tools. You can use it for everything. While working with the Burp Suite Community Edition, where you do not have the advanced options and tools, Intruder can supply all of them with restrictions, which means more time in performing the tasks, but it can do any kind of task.
So, to detect directory listings and sensitive files, we are going to use common lists. For example, we can have a list with common directories, such as usual paths in content management systems (CMS), eCommerce applications, and normal paths used in a homemade application, such as /users/, /admin/, /administrator/, process.php, /config/, and more.
On the other hand, we need to have a list with common ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access