Chapter 2. Reconnaissance
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Scanning and identifying services with Nmap
- Identifying a web application firewall
- Watching the source code
- Using Firebug to analyze and alter basic behavior
- Obtaining and modifying cookies
- Taking advantage of robots.txt
- Finding files and folders with DirBuster
- Password profiling with CeWL
- Using John the Ripper to generate a dictionary
- Finding files and folders with ZAP
Introduction
Every penetration test, be it for a network or a web application, has a workflow; it has a series of stages that should be completed in order to increase our chances of finding and exploiting every possible vulnerability affecting our targets, such as:
- Reconnaissance
- Enumeration
- Exploitation
- Maintaining access
- Cleaning tracks ...
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