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You're reading from Kali Linux Intrusion and Exploitation Cookbook Powerful recipes to detect vulnerabilities and perform security assessments

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2017

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781783982165

Length 512 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Kali Linux

Concepts

Penetration Testing

Authors (2):

Ishan Girdhar

Dhruv Shah

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Preface

1. Getting Started - Setting Up an Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Network Information Gathering

3. Network Vulnerability Assessment

4. Network Exploitation

5. Web Application Information Gathering

6. Web Application Vulnerability Assessment

7. Web Application Exploitation

8. System and Password Exploitation

9. Privilege Escalation and Exploitation

10. Wireless Exploitation

Pen Testing 101 Basics

In this recipe, we will use the Proxy to intercept our browser traffic and manipulate the on the go.

To step through this recipe, you will need Kali Linux running on Oracle Virtualbox and an Internet connection. No other prerequisites are required.

For this recipe, you need to perform the following steps:

To start Burp, go to Menu | Kali Linux | Applications | burpsuite and click on the Start burpsuite, as shown in the following screenshot:

Also open and navigate to Edit Menu | Preferences | Advance Tab | Network | Settings and set the proxy as 127.0.0.1 and the port as 8080, as shown in the screenshot:

Click on OK and go to Burp | Proxy, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now, come back to the window and open http://172.17.0.2/dvwa/login.php and press Enter ; the moment you press Enter , the request will be intercepted by Burp, as shown in the screenshot: