Hands-On Web Penetration Testing with Metasploit

The subtle art of using Metasploit 5.0 for web application exploitation

Harpreet Singh , Himanshu Sharma 지음

Packt(GCO Science) 2020년 05월 22일 출간

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▶Book Description
Metasploit has been a crucial security tool for many years. However, there are only a few modules that Metasploit has made available to the public for pentesting web applications. In this book, you'll explore another aspect of the framework ？ web applications ？ which is not commonly used. You'll also discover how Metasploit, when used with its inbuilt GUI, simplifies web application penetration testing.

The book starts by focusing on the Metasploit setup, along with covering the life cycle of the penetration testing process. Then, you will explore Metasploit terminology and the web GUI, which is available in the Metasploit Community Edition. Next, the book will take you through pentesting popular content management systems such as Drupal, WordPress, and Joomla, which will also include studying the latest CVEs and understanding the root cause of vulnerability in detail. Later, you'll gain insights into the vulnerability assessment and exploitation of technological platforms such as JBoss, Jenkins, and Tomcat. Finally, you'll learn how to fuzz web applications to find logical security vulnerabilities using third-party tools.

By the end of this book, you'll have a solid understanding of how to exploit and validate vulnerabilities by working with various tools and techniques.

▶What You Will Learn
- Get up to speed with setting up and installing the Metasploit framework
- Gain first-hand experience of the Metasploit web interface
- Use Metasploit for web-application reconnaissance
- Understand how to pentest various content management systems
- Pentest platforms such as JBoss, Tomcat, and Jenkins
- Become well-versed with fuzzing web applications
- Write and automate penetration testing reports

▶Key Features
- Get up to speed with Metasploit and discover how to use it for pentesting
- Understand how to exploit and protect your web environment effectively
- Learn how an exploit works and what causes vulnerabilities

▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for web security analysts, bug bounty hunters, security professionals, or any stakeholder in the security sector who wants to delve into web application security testing. Professionals who are not experts with command line tools or Kali Linux and prefer Metasploit's graphical user interface (GUI) will also find this book useful. No experience with Metasploit is required, but basic knowledge of Linux and web application pentesting will be helpful.

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▶TABLE of CONTENTS
▷ Section 1. Introduction
1. Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing
2. Metasploit Essentials
3. The Metasploit Web Interface
▷ Section 2. The Pentesting Life Cycle with Metasploit
4. Using Metasploit for Reconnaissance
5. Web Application Enumeration Using Metasploit
6. Vulnerability Scanning Using WMAP
7. Vulnerability Assessment Using Metasploit (Nessus)
▷ Section 3. Pentesting Content Management Systems (CMSes)
8. Pentesting CMSes - WordPress
9. Pentesting CMSes - Joomla
10. Pentesting CMSes - Drupal
▷ Section 4. Performing Pentesting on Technological Platforms
11. Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms - JBoss
12. Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms - Apache Tomcat
13. Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms - Jenkins
▷ Section 5. Logical Bug Hunting
14. Web Application Fuzzing - Logical Bug Hunting
15. Writing Penetration Testing Reports

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▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Introduction to Web Application Penetration Testing, covers the setup and installation of Metasploit, along with pentesting life cycles, the OWASP Top 10, and the Sans Top 25, in detail.

- Chapter 2, Metasploit Essentials, explains the basics of Metasploit, from installation to exploitation. The basic Metasploit terminologies and other less commonly used options in Metasploit are also covered.

- Chapter 3, The Metasploit Web Interface, focuses on a walkthrough of the Metasploit web GUI interface, which is available in Metasploit Community Edition, before we dive into other topics.

- Chapter 4, Using Metasploit for Reconnaissance, covers the first process in a penetration testing life cycle: reconnaissance. From banner grabbing to WEBDAV recon, a basic reconnaissance process will be explained with the help of particular Metasploit modules used for this.

- Chapter 5, Web Application Enumeration Using Metasploit, focuses on one of the most important processes in web application penetration testing, in other words, enumeration. The chapter will start with the very basics of file and directory enumeration, before proceeding to crawling and scraping from a website, and then further enumeration involving Metasploit modules.

- Chapter 6, Vulnerability Scanning Using WMAP, covers the WMAP module of the Metasploit Framework for scanning web applications.

- Chapter 7, Vulnerability Assessment Using Metasploit (Nessus), covers the utilization of the Nessus vulnerability scanner via Metasploit to perform vulnerability assessment scanning on a target.

- Chapter 8, Pentesting CMSes ？ WordPress, covers the enumeration of vulnerabilities for WordPress and how to exploit them.

- Chapter 9, Pentesting CMSes ？ Joomla, covers the enumeration of vulnerabilities for Joomla and how to exploit them.

- Chapter 10, Pentesting CMSes ？ Drupal, covers the enumeration of vulnerabilities for Drupal and how to exploit them.

- Chapter 11, Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms ？ JBoss, covers methods for enumerating, exploiting, and gaining access to a JBoss server.

- Chapter 12, Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms ？ Apache Tomcat, covers methods for enumerating, exploiting, and gaining access to a Tomcat server.

- Chapter 13, Penetration Testing on Technological Platforms ？ Jenkins, covers methods for enumerating, exploiting, and gaining access to a server running Jenkins.

- Chapter 14, Web Application Fuzzing ？ Logical Bug Hunting, focuses on exploiting flaws that exist in the business logic of the web application. We will cover in-depth examples of these, along with methods for fuzzing a web application in order to identify a vulnerability.

- Chapter 15, Writing Penetration Testing Reports, covers the basics of report writing and how different tools can be used to automate the report-writing process.

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▶ Preface
In today's rapidly evolving technological world, the security industry is changing at a phenomenal pace, while the number of cyber attacks involving organizations is also increasing rapidly. To protect themselves from these real-world attacks, many companies have introduced security audits and risk and vulnerability assessments in their process management, designed to help the company gauge the risks with respect to their business assets. To protect these assets, many companies have hired security professionals with the purpose of identifying risks, vulnerabilities, and threats in companies' applications and networks. For a security professional, building up their skills and familiarizing themselves with the latest attacks are crucial. Also, for their betterment and improved efficiency, many individuals use Metasploit as their first choice in the case of exploitation and enumeration.

As regards network exploitation and post-exploitation, we have a host of resources at our disposal, but in terms of web applications, not many opt for Metasploit. This book will help security consultants and professionals see the other side of Metasploit with regard to web applications. It will also enable readers to work more efficiently on their web application penetration testing projects with the help of Metasploit.

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저자(글) Harpreet Singh

Harpreet Singh is the author of Hands-On Red Team Tactics published by Packt Publishing and has more than 7 years of experience in the fields of ethical hacking, penetration testing, vulnerability research, and red teaming. He is also a certified OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional) and OSWP (Offensive Security Wireless Professional). Over the years, Harpreet has acquired an offensive skill set as well as a defensive skill set. He is a professional who specializes in wireless and network exploitation, including but not limited to mobile exploitation and web application exploitation, and he has also performed red team engagements for banks and financial groups.

저자(글) Himanshu Sharma

Himanshu Sharma has already achieved fame for finding security loopholes and vulnerabilities in Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, Uber, AT&T, Avira, and many others. He has assisted international celebrities such as Harbajan Singh in recovering their hacked accounts. He has been a speaker and trainer at international conferences such as Botconf 2013, CONFidence, RSA Singapore, LeHack, Hacktivity, Hack In the Box, and SEC-T. He also spoke at the IEEE Conference for Tedx. Currently, he is the cofounder of BugsBounty, a crowdsourced security platform.