Burp Suite Cookbook: Practical recipes to help you master web penetration testing with Burp Suite

Get hands-on experience in using Burp Suite to execute attacks and perform web assessments
Key Features

Explore the tools in Burp Suite to meet your web infrastructure security demands
Configure Burp to fine-tune the suite of tools specific to the target
Use Burp extensions to assist with different technologies commonly found in application stacks

Book Description

Burp Suite is a Java-based platform for testing the security of your web applications, and has been adopted widely by professional enterprise testers.

The Burp Suite Cookbook contains recipes to tackle challenges in determining and exploring vulnerabilities in web applications. You will learn how to uncover security flaws with various test cases for complex environments. After you have 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 will also explore working with various modes of Burp and then perform operations on the web. Toward the end, you will cover recipes that target specific test scenarios and resolve them using best practices.

By the end of the book, you will 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

Who this book is for

If you are a security professional, web pentester, or software developer who wants to adopt Burp Suite for applications security, this book is for you.
Table of Contents

Getting Started with Burp Suite
Getting to Know the Burp Suite of Tools
Configuring, Spidering, Scanning, and Reporting with Burp
Assessing Authentication Schemes
Assessing Authorization Checks
Assessing Session Management Mechanisms
Assessing Business Logic
Evaluating Input Validation Checks
Attacking the Client
Working with Burp Macros and Extensions
Implementing Advanced Topic Attacks