How to Hack Like a Ghost

6 Fracture

From our work so far, we have a few MXR Ads credentials, and we’ve uncovered the main ways that MXR Ads and GP handle their infrastructure, but we’re not sure what to do with our findings. We still have so many opportunities to explore, so we go back to the drawing board: a handful of GP and MXR Ads websites that we confirmed in Chapter 4 (see Listing 4-3). In Chapter 5, we followed our gut by courting the most alluring assets, the S3 buckets, which eventually led us to a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. But now we’ll abide by a steadier and more strenuous approach.

We will go through each website, follow ...