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Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux

You're reading from   Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux Testing web security is best done through simulating an attack. Kali Linux lets you do this to professional standards and this is the book you need to be fully up-to-speed with this powerful open-source toolkit.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782163169
Length 342 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Web Penetration Testing with Kali Linux
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Penetration Testing and Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Reconnaissance 3. Server-side Attacks 4. Client-side Attacks 5. Attacking Authentication 6. Web Attacks 7. Defensive Countermeasures 8. Penetration Test Executive Report Index

MitM Proxy


MITM Proxy is a great tool for a Penetration Tester to examine the client's vulnerabilities. It allows the administrator to examine the HTTPS connection, halt, examine, and reply traffic. MITM Proxy allows an administrator to alter the request or response from a web server.

MITM Proxy can allow a Penetration Tester to examine the attacks quickly and see what requests and responses are coming from the web browser. MITM Proxy can be launched by going to Kali | Sniffing/Spoofing | Web Sniffers and selecting mitmproxy.

Note

Its recommended to use MITM Proxy when setting up a SET attack, as well as when analyzing the behavior of that attack. You should run SET and MITM Proxy at the same time in a test environment.

Once MitM proxy is loaded, you will need to point your client's web browser to the your Kali server. MITM will display the web requests transactions that occur on the client-side as shown in the following screenshot:

There will be a log of all browser activity going through the...

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