Web Application Pentesting
In the era of modern businesses, Web applications play an important role with regard to its functioning and growth. Nonetheless, attackers can hack these apps, harm business functioning, and steal data if your company does not adequately test and protect its web apps. The Web Application Pentester Program introduced by CyberTrainings demonstrates beginner, intermediate-level penetration testing skills in a hands-on approach to test web applications for security breaches.
Students will master the fundamentals of HTTP and HTTPS, the protocols that underpin web applications’ communication, during the program. Examining packet structure and how attackers manipulate packets will also be covered in the course, along with subjects like hacker technique, structured query language injection (SQLI), cross-site scripting (XSS), and reporting best practices.
WHY IT IS NEEDED?
- Identify critical vulnerabilities in web applications manually.
- Use the appropriate technique for your web application penetration testing to guarantee that they are rigorous, repeatable, consistent, and subject to quality assurance.
- Examine the outcomes of automated web testing tools to confirm conclusions, assess how they will affect the business, and get rid of false positives.
- Find and take advantage of SQL Injection vulnerabilities to assess the actual danger to the affected enterprise.
- Construct payloads and setups for use in other web assaults.
- Describe the consequences of using vulnerabilities in online applications.
Module 1: Introduction to Web Application Pentesting
- Understanding the Web application (in)security posture
- Setting up a platform for web application pentesting
- Setting up vulnerable apps
- Learn about the basics of Burp Suite
- Examining the HTTP traffic
- Examining HTTPS traffic
Module 2: Use of HTTP in Web App Pentesting
- Understanding the HTTP protocol
- How to make use of HTTP headers?
- Learn to attack HTTP basic & digest authentication
- Directing a brute-force attack
Module 3: Analyzing Attack Surface
- Analyzing the attack surface
- Gathering necessary Information
- Search for hidden URLs with DirBuster
- Detecting weak SSL certificates
Module 4: Other Attacks
- Cross-site scripting (XSS) — reflected, stored and DOM based
- What is an HTML injection?
- What is broken authentication and session management?
- Insecure direct object references cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
- Insufficient transport layer security
- Forwards and redirects that need verification
- Resource sharing between origins
- Recognizing injection vulnerabilities
- Vulnerabilities in local file insertion
- Vulnerabilities in remote file insertion
- Examining dangerous direct object references
- Examining the dangers of HTTP response splitting
- SQL injection threats
- Connecting session management
- Knowledge of HTTP response header insertion
- Incorrect handling of exceptions
- Server-side code disclosure
- Combining XSS with other assaults.
- Highlighting the password-reset feature
- Mistakes in business logic.
Module 5: Writing Pentest Report
- Learn the Different types of Reporting Techniques.
- Considering steps for remediation.
Pre-Requisite
- Need to be acquainted with Linux.
- A basic knowledge of JavaScript, HTTP, and HTML.
- Knowledge of different HTTP status codes, answers, and requests
Target Audience
- General Security Practitioners
- Penetration Testers
- Ethical Hackers
- Web application developers
- Website designers, architects, and developers
Duration
- 40 Hours