A Complete Guide to Burp Suite: Learn to Detect Application Vulnerabilities

by Sagar Rahalkar

Overview

Use this comprehensive guide to learn the practical aspects of Burp Suite—from the basics to more advanced topics. The book goes beyond the standard OWASP Top 10 and also covers security testing of APIs and mobile apps.

Burp Suite is a simple, yet powerful, tool used for application security testing. It is widely used for manual application security testing of web applications plus APIs and mobile apps. The book starts with the basics and shows you how to set up a testing environment. It covers basic building blocks and takes you on an in-depth tour of its various components such as intruder, repeater, decoder, comparer, and sequencer. It also takes you through other useful features such as infiltrator, collaborator, scanner, and extender. And it teaches you how to use Burp Suite for API and mobile app security testing.

What You Will Learn

• Understand various components of Burp Suite
• Configure the tool for the most efficient use
• Exploit real-world web vulnerabilities using Burp Suite
• Extend the tool with useful add-ons

Who This Book Is For

Those with a keen interest in web application security testing, API security testing, mobile application security testing, and bug bounty hunting; and quality analysis and development team members who are part of the secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and want to quickly determine application vulnerabilities using Burp Suite

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484264010
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	11/07/2020
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	167
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sagar Rahalkar is a seasoned information security professional with more than 13 years of experience in various verticals of information security. His domain expertise is mainly in AppsSec, cyber crime investigations, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, and IT GRC. He holds a master’s degree in computer science and several industry-recognized certifications such as CISM, ISO 27001LA, and ECSA. He has been closely associated with Indian law enforcement agencies for more than three years, dealing with digital crime investigations and related training, and received awards from senior officials of the police and defense organizations in India. He also is an author and reviewer for several publications.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction to Burp Suite
Chapter Goal: Introduce the Burp suite to the users explaining its need and a high-level overview. It would set the context for rest of the chapters.

No of pages – 6-8

Subtopics

1. Introduction to application security testing

2. Some basics of application security

3. A brief introduction to Burp Suite

4. Need for Burp Suite

5. Peer comparison

6. Burp Suite features and versions

7. High level feature overview

Chapter 2: Setting up the environment

Chapter Goal: Help the readers to setup the testing environment for rest of the chapters

No of pages 6

Subtopics

1. Burp Suite installation

2. Setting up vulnerable target web application

3. Configuring the browser

4. Using the Burp Suite CA certificate

Chapter 3: User options, project options, proxy

Chapter Goal: Introduce the readers to the user options, project options and proxy tab of Burp Suite. These are some basic building blocks to get started further.

No of pages 20-25

Subtopics

1. Platform authentication, upstream proxy servers, SOCKS proxy

2. Defining the hotkeys

3. Automatic project backups

4. Rest API

5. Proxy interception, proxy history logging

6. Performance feedback

7. Project Options – Time outs, host name resolution, out of scope requests, redirections, TLS configuration, session handling rules, cookie jar and macros

8. Proxy – Intercept, HTTP History, web socket history and options

Chapter 4: Dashboard, target, engagement tools

Chapter Goal: Introduce the readers to the dashboard, target tabs and the engagement tools

No of pages 10-15

Subtopics

1.Dashboard overview

2.Target Tab – introduction to various panes, filters

3.Engagement tools

Chapter 5: Intruder

Chapter Goal: Introduce the readers to the Burp Suite intruder tool.

No of pages 10

Subtopics

1. Target tab

2. Positions

3. Payloads

4. Options

Chapter 6: Repeater, sequencer, decoder and comparer

Chapter Goal: Introduce the readers to repeater, sequencer, decoder and comparer

No of pages 10 - 15

Subtopics

1. Repeater – request and response, search filters, show response and render

2. Sequencer – Live capture, manual load and analysis options

3. Decoder – Encoding, Decoding and Hashing

4. Efficiently using comparer

Chapter 7: Infiltrator, Collaborator and Clickbandit

Chapter Goal: Introduce the readers to infiltrator, collaborator and clickbandit tools

No of pages 10-15

Subtopics

1. Infiltrator – patching the java binaries

2. Collaborator basics for out of the band attacks

3. Introduction to clickbandit for clickjacking POC’s.

Chapter 8: Scanner and Reporting

Chapter Goal: Introduce the readers to Burp Suite Scanner and various reporting options

No of pages 6-8

Subtopics

1. Crawl, audit

2. Scan configuration

3. Application login

4. Resource pools

Chapter 9: Extending Burp Suite

Chapter Goal: Introduce the readers to Burp Suite extender

No of pages 15-20

Subtopics

1. Burp Suite extensions

2. Manual installation

3. BApp store

4. Other useful extensions

Chapter 10: Testing mobile apps and API’s with Burp Suite

Chapter Goal: Introduce the readers to techniques for performing security testing on mobile apps and API’s with Burp Suite

No of pages 15-20

Subtopics

1. API security testing with Burp Suite

2. Mobile App Security Testing with Burp Suite