Learn Web Application Penetration Testing

I was given a PDF a few months back by a friend. It was a result of asking them if they could provide me with some good resources to further my learning and develop my “cyber” skills.

(I don’t like the word Cyber, but thought in this case it got my point across) :-)

Anyway the PDF had loads of great content in it so I thought I would share it here. ( I don’t know who/where the PDF originated from, if you recognise it as yours please let me know and I’ll add a credit to it).

*********** Update 07/2020 ************

The original author of the PDF has reached out to me, they can be found on twitter.

Phase 1 — History

1. History of Internet

Phase 2 — Web and Server Technology

1. Basic concepts of web applications, how they work and the HTTP protocol
2. HTML basics part 1
3. HTML basics part 2
4. Difference between static and dynamic website
5. HTTP protocol Understanding
6. Parts of HTTP Request
7. Parts of HTTP Response
8. Various HTTP Methods
9. Understanding URLS
10. Intro to REST
11. HTTP Request & Response Headers
12. What is a cookie
13. HTTP Status codes
14. HTTP Proxy
15. Authentication with HTTP
16. HTTP basic and digest authentication
17. What is “Server-Side”
18. Server and client side with example
19. What is a session
20. Introduction to UTF-8 and Unicode
21. URL encoding
22. HTML encoding
23. Base64 encoding
24. Hex encoding & ASCII

Phase 3 — Setting up the lab with BurpSuite and bWAPP

MANISH AGRAWAL

1. Setup lab with bWAPP
2. Set up Burp Suite
3. Configure Firefox and add certificate
4. Mapping and scoping website
5. Spidering
6. Active and passive scanning
7. Scanner options and demo
8. Introduction to password security
9. Intruder
10. Intruder attack types
11. Payload settings
12. Intruder settings

ÆTHER SECURITY LAB

1. №1 Penetration testing tool
2. Environment Setup
3. General concept
4. Proxy module
5. Repeater module
6. Target and spider module
7. Sequencer and scanner module

Phase 4 — Mapping the application and attack surface

1. Spidering
2. Mapping application using robots.txt
3. Discover hidden contents using dirbuster
4. Dirbuster in detail
5. Discover hidden directories and files with intruder
6. Identify application entry points
7. Identify application entry points Pt.2
8. Identify client and server technology
9. Identify server technology using banner grabbing (telnet)
10. Identify server technology using http recon

Phase 5 — Understanding and exploiting OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities

1. A closer look at all OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities

IBM

1. Injection
2. Broken authentication and session management
3. Cross-site scripting
4. Insecure direct object reference
5. Security misconfiguration
6. Sensitive data exposure
7. Missing functional level access controls
8. Cross-site request forgery
9. Using components with known vulnerabilities
10. Unvalidated redirects and forwards

F5 CENTRAL

1. Injection
2. Broken authentication and session management
3. Insecure deserialisation
4. Sensitive data exposure
5. Broken access control
6. Insufficient logging and monitoring
7. XML external entities
8. Using components with known vulnerabilities
9. Cross-site scripting
10. Security misconfiguration

LUKE BRINER

1. Injection explained
2. Broken authentication and session management
3. Cross-site scripting
4. Insecure direct object reference
5. Security misconfiguration
6. Sensitive data exposure
7. Missing functional level access control
8. Cross-site request forgery
9. Components with known vulnerabilities
10. Unvalidated redirects and forwards

Phase 6 — Bypassing client-side controls

1. What is hidden forms in HTML
2. Bypassing hidden form fields using tamper data
3. Bypassing hidden form fields using Burp Suite (Purchase application)
4. Changing price on eCommerce website using parameter tampering
5. Understanding cookie in detail
6. Cookie tampering with tamper data
7. Cookie tamper part 2
8. Understanding referer header in depth using Cisco product
9. Introduction to ASP.NET viewstate
10. ASP.NET viewstate in depth
11. Analyse sensitive data in ASP.NET viewstate

Phase 7 — Attacking authentication/login

1. Attacking login panel with bad password — Guess username password for the website and try different combinations
2. Brute-force login panel
3. Username enumeration
4. Username enumeration with bruteforce password attack
5. Authentication over insecure HTTP protocol
6. Authentication over insecure HTTP protocol Pt.2
7. Forgot password vulnerability — Case 1
8. Forgot password vulnerability — Case 2
9. Login page autocomplete feature enabled
10. Testing for weak password policy
11. Insecure distribution of credentials — When you register in any website or you request for a password reset using forgot password feature, if the website sends your username and password over the email in cleartext without sending the password reset link, then it is a vulnerability.

Phase 8 — Attacking access controls (IDOR, Priv esc, hidden files and directories)

Completely unprotected functionalities

1. Finding admin panel
2. Finding admin panel and hidden files and directories
3. Finding hidden webpages with dirbuster

Insecure direct object reference

1. IDOR case 1
2. IDOR case 2
3. IDOR case 3 (zomato)

Privilege escalation

1. What is privilege escalation
2. Privilege escalation
3. Privilege escalation — Case 2

Phase 9 — Attacking data stores (Various types of injection attacks — SQL|MySQL|NoSQL|Oracle, etc.)

Bypassing login panel

1. Basics of MySQL
2. Bypassing login panel — Case 1
3. Bypass login panel — Case 2

SQL injection

1. Part 1 — Install SQLi lab
2. Part 2 — SQL lab series
3. Part 3 — SQL lab series
4. Part 4 — SQL lab series
5. Part 5 — SQL lab series
6. Part 6 — Double query injection
7. Part 7 — Double query injection cont..
8. Part 8 — Blind injection boolean based
9. Part 9 — Blind injection time based
10. Part 10 — Dumping DB using outfile
11. Part 11 — Post parameter injection error based
12. Part 12 — POST parameter injection double query based
13. Part 13 — POST parameter injection blind boolean and time based
14. Part 14 — Post parameter injection in UPDATE query
15. Part 15 — Injection in insert query
16. Part 16 — Cookie based injection
17. Part 17 — Second order injection
18. Part 18 — Bypassing blacklist filters — 1
19. Part 19 — Bypassing blacklist filters — 2
20. Part 20 — Bypassing blacklist filters — 3
21. Part 21 — Bypassing WAF
22. Part 22 — Bypassing WAF — Impedance Mismatch
23. Part 23 — Bypassing addslashes — CharSet Mismatch

NoSQL injection

1. Abusing NoSQL databases
2. Making cry — attacking NoSQL for PenTesters

Xpath injection

1. Detailed introduction
2. Practical 1 — bWAPP
3. Practical 2 — Mutillidae
4. Practical 3 — WebGoat

LDAP injection

1. Introduction and practical 1
2. Practical 2

Phase 10 — Attacking back-end components (OS command injection, XMl interpreters, mail services, etc.)

OS command injection

1. OS command injection in bWAPP

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This is still a living document and I’ll try to add more to it as I find it.

If any of the links appear broken, let me know and I’ll try to find solutions.

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