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This book aims to impart the skills of a professional Burp user to empower you to successfully perform various kinds of tests on any web application of your choice. It begins by acquainting you with Burp Suite on various operating systems and showing you how to customize the settings for maximum performance. You will then get to grips with SSH port forwarding and SOCKS-based proxies. You will also get hands-on experience in leveraging the features of Burp tools such as Target, Proxy, Intruder, Scanner, Repeater, Spider, Sequencer, Decoder, and more. You will then move on to searching, extracting, and matching patterns for requests and responses, and you will learn how to work with upstream proxies and SSL certificates. Next, you will dive into the world of Burp Extensions and also learn how to write simple extensions of your own in Java, Python, and Ruby.
As a professional tester, you will need to be able to report your work, safeguard it, and sometimes even extend the tools that you are using; you will learn how to do all this in the concluding chapters of this book.
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1. Getting Started with Burp
Starting Burp from the command line
Specifying memory size for Burp
Specifying the maximum memory Burp is allowed to use
Ensuring that IPv4 is allowed
Working with other JVMs
Summary
2. Configuring Browsers to Proxy through Burp
Configuring widely used browsers to proxy through Burp Suite
Microsoft Internet Explorer
Google Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Fine-grained proxy configuration
Setting up FoxyProxy
Mozilla Plug-n-Hack extension
Exclusive Firefox profile
Summary
3. Setting the Scope and Dealing with Upstream Proxies
Multiple ways to add targets to the scope
Loading a list of targets from a file
Scope and Burp Suite tools
Scope inclusion versus exclusion
Dropping out-of-scope requests
Dealing with upstream proxies and SOCKS proxies
Types of proxies supported by Burp
Working with SOCKS proxies
Using SSH tunneling as a SOCKS proxy
Setting up Burp to be a proxy server for other devices
Summary
4. SSL and Other Advanced Settings
Importing the Burp certificate in Mozilla Firefox
Importing the Burp certificate in Microsoft IE and Google Chrome
Installing the Burp certificate in iOS or Android
SSL pass-through
Invisible Proxy
Summary
5. Using Burp Tools As a Power User – Part 1
Target
Site map compare
Proxy
The Message Analysis tab
Actions on the intercepted requests
Response interception and modification
Using the Proxy history tab
Intruder
Scanner
Scanning optimization and requests
When to scan
Repeater
Summary
6. Using Burp Tools As a Power User – Part 2
Spidering
Sequencer
Analysis of the tokens
Sample analysis
Decoder
Comparer
Alerts
Summary
7. Searching, Extracting, Pattern Matching, and More
Filtering
Illustration
Matching
Grep - Match and Grep - Extract
Summary
8. Using Engagement Tools and Other Utilities
Search
Target Analyzer
Content Discovery
Task Scheduler
CSRF proof of concept Generator
Summary
9. Using Burp Extensions and Writing Your Own
Setting up the Python runtime for Burp Extensions
Setting up the Ruby environment for Burp Extensions
Loading and installing a Burp Extension from the Burp App Store
Using BApp files
Loading and installing a Burp Extension manually
Managing Burp Extensions
Memory issues with Burp Extensions
Writing our own Burp Extensions
A simple Burp Extension in Python
Noteworthy Burp Extensions
Summary
10. Saving Securely, Backing Up, and Other Maintenance Activities
Saving and restoring a state
Automatic backups
Scheduled tasks
Logging all activities
Summary
11. Resources, References, and Links
Primary references
Learning about Burp
Web application security testing with Burp
Miscellaneous security testing tutorials with Burp Suite
Pentesting thick clients
Testing mobile applications for web security using Burp Suite
Extensions references
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Author
Akash Mahajan
Reviewers
Luca De Fulgentis
Rejah Rehim
David Shaw
Commissioning Editor
Anthony Albuquerque
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Content Development Editor
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About the Author
Akash Mahajan is "That Web Application Security Guy." He has more than 10 years of experience in application and network security. Before starting his own company, he was a technical lead for one of the leading American commercial security software companies specializing in endpoint security. He then started working on the security of the web infrastructure for the Government of India.
He is the founder and community manager at null - The Open Security Community, where he has made major contributions in making null a national-level group and null Bangalore the biggest and most vibrant chapter.
He is currently a ch...
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