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Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester
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Metasploit Revealed: Secrets of the Expert Pentester

by Sagar Rahalkar, Nipun Jaswal
December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
860 pages
16h 1m
English
Packt Publishing
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w3af

w3af is an open-source web application security scanning tool. It belongs to the web application security scanner category. It can quickly scan the target web application for common web application vulnerabilities, including the OWASP Top 10. w3af can also be effectively integrated with Metasploit to make it even more powerful.

Its official website is http://w3af.org/. We can see the w3af console for scanning web application vulnerabilities in the following image:

w3af console for scanning web application vulnerabilities

The following are the various OS-based installation steps for w3af:

  • Installation on Windows: w3af is not available ...
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