Book Description

Burp Suite is a Java-based platform used for testing the security of your web applications, and has been adopted widely by professional enterprise testers. The Burp Suite Cookbook contains recipes to help you tackle challenges related to determining and exploring vulnerabilities in web applications.

The book’s first few sections will help you understand how to uncover security flaws with various test cases for complex environments. After you’ve configured Burp for your environment, you will use Burp tools such as Spider, Scanner, Intruder, Repeater, and Decoder, among others, to resolve specific problems faced by pentesters. You’ll also be able to work with Burp’s various modes, in addition to performing operations on the web. Toward the concluding chapters, you’ll explore recipes that target specific test scenarios and learn how to resolve them using best practices.

By the end of this book, you’ll be up and running with deploying Burp for securing web applications.

What you will learn

• Configure Burp Suite for your web applications
• Perform authentication, authorization, business logic, and data validation testing
• Explore session management and client-side testing
• Understand unrestricted file uploads and server-side request forgery
• Execute XML external entity attacks with Burp
• Perform remote code execution with Burp

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with Burp Suite
2. Getting to Know the Burp Suite of Tools
3. Configuring, Spidering, Scanning, and Reporting with Burp
4. Assessing Authentication Schemes
5. Assessing Authorization Checks
6. Assessing Session Management Mechanisms
7. Assessing Business Logic
8. Evaluating Input Validation Checks
9. Attacking the Client
10. Working with Burp Macros and Extensions
11. Implementing Advanced Topic Attacks