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Becoming the Hacker

You're reading from   Becoming the Hacker The Playbook for Getting Inside the Mind of the Attacker

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788627962
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adrian Pruteanu Adrian Pruteanu
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to Attacking Web Applications FREE CHAPTER 2. Efficient Discovery 3. Low-Hanging Fruit 4. Advanced Brute-forcing 5. File Inclusion Attacks 6. Out-of-Band Exploitation 7. Automated Testing 8. Bad Serialization 9. Practical Client-Side Attacks 10. Practical Server-Side Attacks 11. Attacking APIs 12. Attacking CMS 13. Breaking Containers Other Books You May Enjoy
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Extending Burp

Burp Suite is a fantastic attack proxy and it comes with some great features straight out of the box. As mentioned in previous chapters, Intruder is a flexible brute-forcing tool, Repeater allows us to inspect and fine-tune attacks, and Decoder streamlines data manipulation. What makes Burp great is the ability to expand functionality through community-developed and community-maintained extensions. PortSwigger, the creator of Burp Suite, also maintains an online directory for extensions called the BApp Store. The BApp Store can be accessed via the Extender tab in Burp Suite.

Extending Burp

Figure 7.1: The BApp Store

With extensions, we can passively check for outdated libraries, custom build sqlmap command-lines, and quickly check for authentication or authorization vulnerabilities.

Burp extensions are typically written in either Java, Python, or Ruby. Since Burp is a Java application, Java extensions will work straight out of the box. For extensions written in Python or Ruby, we need to...

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