Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition
by Daniel W. Dieterle, Gilberto Najera-Gutierrez, Juned Ahmed Ansari
The WhatWeb scanner
The WhatWeb tool is used to identify different web technologies used by the website. It is included in Kali Linux, and it can be accessed by going to Applications | 03 - Web Application Analysis | Web Vulnerability scanners. It identifies the different content management systems, statistic/analytics packages, and JavaScript libraries used to design the web application. The tool claims to have over 900 plugins. It can be run at different aggression levels that balance speed and reliability. The tool may get enough information on a single web page to identify the website, or it may recursively query the website to identify the technologies used.
In the next example, we will use the tool against the OWASP BWA virtual machine ...
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