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Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing

Name: Mastering Kali Linux for Web Penetration Testing
Author: Michael McPhee
ISBN: 9781784395070

by Michael McPhee

June 2017

Intermediate to advanced

338 pages

8h 28m

English

Packt Publishing

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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata

Piracy
Questions
Common Web Applications and Architectures
Common architectures
Standalone models
Three-tier models
Model-View-Controller design
Web application hosting
Physical hosting
Virtual hosting
Cloud hosting
Containers – a new trend
Application development cycles
Coordinating with development teams
Post deployment - continued vigilance
Common weaknesses – where to start
Web application defenses
Standard defensive elements
Additional layers
Summary
Guidelines for Preparation and Testing
Picking your favorite testing framework
Frameworks through a product
Train like you play
The EC-Council approach
The GIAC/SANS approach
The Offensive Security approach
Open source methodologies and frameworks
ISECOM's OSSTMM
ISSAF
NIST publications
OWASP's OTG
Keeping it legal and ethical
What is legal?
What is ethical?
Labbing - practicing what we learn
Creating a virtualized environment
Our penetration testing host
Creating a target-rich environment
Finding gullible servers
Unwitting clients
Summary
Stalking Prey Through Target Recon
The imitation game
Making (then smashing) a mirror with HTTrack
Making a stealthy initial archive
Tuning stealthier archives
Is the mirror complete and up-to-date?
Touring the target environment
Open source awesomeness
Open source Intel with Google and the Google hacking database
Tuning your Google search skills
Work smarter with the Google hacking DB and Netcraft
Mastering your own domain
Digging up the dirt
Digging record types
Getting fierce
Next steps with Nikto
Employing Maltego to organize
Being social with your target
Summary
Scanning for Vulnerabilities with Arachni
Walking into spider webs
Optimal Arachni deployment tips
An encore for stacks and frameworks
The Arachni test scenario
Profiles for efficiency
Creating a new profile
Scoping and auditing options
Converting social engineering into user input and mobile platform emulation
Fingerprinting and determining platforms
Checks (please)
Plugging into Arachni extensions and third-party add-ons
Browser clusters
Kicking off our custom scan
Reviewing the results
Summary
Proxy Operations with OWASP ZAP and Burp Suite
Pulling back the curtain with ZAP
Quick refresher on launching ZAP scans
Going active with ZAP
Passive ZAP scanning
Getting fuzzy with ZAP
Taking it to a new level with Burp Suite
Recon with Burp Suite
Stay on target!
Getting particular with proxy
Going active with Spider
Activating Burp Suite
Scanning for life (or vulnerabilities)
Passive scans are a no brainer
Active scanning – Use with care!
The flight of the intruder
Stop, enumerate, and listen!
Select, attack, highlight, and repeat!
Summary
Infiltrating Sessions via Cross-Site Scripting
The low-down on XSS types
Should XSS stay or should it go?
Location, location, and location!
XSS targeting and the delivery
Seeing is believing
Don't run with XSSer(s)!
Stored XSS with BeEF
Here, phishy phishy!
Let's go Metasploiting
Building your own payload
Every good payload needs a handler
Seal the deal – Delivering shell access
Metasploit's web-focused cousin – Websploit
Summary
Injection and Overflow Testing
Injecting some fun into your testing
Is SQL any good?
A crash course in DBs gone bad
Types of SQLI
In-band or classic SQLI
Blind SQLI
Stacked or compound SQLI
SQLI tool school
Old-school SQLI via browsers
Stepping it up with SQLMap
Cooking up some menu-driven SQLI with BBQSQL
SQLI goes high-class with Oracle
The X-factor - XML and XPath injections
XML injection
XPath injection
Credential Jedi mind tricks
Going beyond persuasion – Injecting for execution
Code injections
Overflowing fun
Commix - Not-so-funny command injections
Down with HTTP?
Summary
Exploiting Trust Through Cryptography Testing
How secret is your secret?
Assessing encryption like a pro
SSLyze - it slices, it scans…
SSLscan can do it!
Nmap has SSL skills too
Exploiting the flaws
POODLE – all bark, no bite (usually)
Heartbleed-ing out
DROWNing HTTPS
Revisiting the classics
Hanging out as the Man-in-the-Middle
Scraping creds with SSLstrip
Looking legit with SSLsniff and SSLsplit
SSLsniff
SSLsplit
Alternate MITM motives
Summary
Stress Testing Authentication and Session Management
Knock knock, who's there?
Does authentication have to be hard?
Authentication 2.0 - grabbing a golden ticket
The basic authentication
Form-based authentication
Digest-based authentication
Trust but verify
This is the session you are looking for
Munching on some cookies?
Don't eat fuzzy cookies
Jedi session tricks
Functional access level control
Refining a brute's vocabulary
Summary
Launching Client-Side Attacks
Why are clients so weak?
DOM, Duh-DOM DOM DOM!!
Malicious misdirection
Catch me if you can!
Picking on the little guys
Sea-surfing on someone else's board
Simple account takeovers
Don't you know who I am? Account creation
Trust me, I know the way!
I don't need your validation
Trendy hacks come and go
Clickjacking (bWAPP)
Punycode
Forged or hijacked certificates
Summary
Breaking the Application Logic
Speed-dating your target
Cashing in with e-commerce
Financial applications - Show me the money
Hacking human resources
Easter eggs of evil
So many apps to choose from…
Functional Feng Shui
Basic validation checks
Sometimes, less is more?
Forgery shenanigans
What does this button do?
Timing is everything
Reaching your functional limits
Do we dare to accept files?
Summary
Educating the Customer and Finishing Up
Finishing up
Avoiding surprises with constant contact
Establishing periodic updates
When to hit the big red button
Weaving optimism with your action plan
The executive summary
Introduction
Highlights, scoring, and risk recap
More on risk
Guidance - earning your keep
Detailed findings
The Dradis framework
MagicTree
Other documentation and organization tools
Graphics for your reports
Bringing best practices
Baking in security
Honing the SDLC
Role-play - enabling the team
Picking a winner
Plans and programs
More on change management
Automate and adapt
Assessing the competition
Backbox Linux
Samurai web testing framework
Fedora Security Spin
Other Linux pen test distros
What About Windows and macOS?
Summary

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