Hands-On Application Penetration Testing with Burp Suite
by Carlos A. Lozano, Dhruv Shah, Riyaz Ahemed Walikar
Target
The Target tab allows you to view the entire site map of the application that is in scope. It shows the user all the folders and files detected on the application along with the building logic. There are a lot of additional features in the Target tab as well. Mapping can take place in two ways; one is by manual browsing and the other is by an automated crawler. If the tester is doing manual browsing, turn off the proxy intercept and browse the application. As the requests and responses for different pages keep populating in Burp Suite, the Target tab populates the detected structure as is. This allows the user to get an idea of how the application looks and the folder and file naming convention across the entire application. Well, ...
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