I was going over an application I wrote prepping for my upcoming class and realized the shortcoming’s of Burp’s default session handling mechanisms. Not to knock Burp, but working with a Single Page Application (SPA) that makes calls to several APIs using a JSON Web Token (JWT)…
Some of the earlier tasks I work through when assessing a web application revolve around enumerating the available attack surface my target has to offer. There are a few easy ways to quickly find paths offered by an application. robots.txt The first of these would be examining…
So on to the second leg of this journey. You can find the first installment of my Burp Suite Tips series at the following link. Burp Suite Tips – Volume 1 Viewing Target and Repeater Using Tabs I much prefer viewing the Target and Repeater tabs using…
I’ve been a little obsessed with the session handling tool-set that Burp Suite provides. I’ve been running into web applications that aggressively tear down (de-authenticate) sessions for any number of given reasons. Could be the volume of requests sent, malicious input, time-based, accessing a certain section of…
I’ve been meaning to compile a bunch of Burp Suite tips for a while now. Stuff I’ve learned from others and things I’ve picked up along the way. This is the first installment of such helpful tips. I’ll be looking to pump out at least three posts…
I continue to rely heavily on Bash as my go-to scripting language despite knowing I’d benefit greatly by going deep down the Python rabbit-hole. I started my journey in tech as a Linux sysadmin and have been an ardent fan of the Bash shell on Linux operating…
Something I like to do when testing a web application is to look for sensitive files that have been placed in web-exposed directories. Application administrators sometimes leave files in places they shouldn’t that contain information which may help advance your attack chain. Source code, configuration files, and…