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Penetration Testing Bootcamp

You're reading from   Penetration Testing Bootcamp Quickly get up and running with pentesting techniques

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787288744
Length 258 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Beltrame Jason Beltrame
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Planning and Preparation FREE CHAPTER 2. Information Gathering 3. Setting up and maintaining the Command and Control Server 4. Vulnerability Scanning and Metasploit 5. Traffic Sniffing and Spoofing 6. Password-based Attacks 7. Attacks on the Network Infrastructure 8. Web Application Attacks 9. Cleaning Up and Getting Out 10. Writing Up the Penetration Testing Report

Detecting a web application firewall

Network-based firewalls are not the only type of firewall you may discover along the way. Web Application Firewalls, or WAFs, are very commonly used to protect web-based applications. If you are unfamiliar with an environment, detecting a WAF can help lay out the web application infrastructure. To help us figure out this bit of information, we are going to utilize a tool called WAFW00F. WAFW00F can help you determine whether there is that extra layer of security prior to the web servers.

WAFW00F can detect the presence of a lot of different WAF types. By running the wafw00f command with the -l flag, you can see list of currently defined WAFs. Here is the current list from my lab. If one of these is not detected, don't fret; the wafw00f command will still inform you that a generic WAF has been detected:

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