Tag: Burp Suite

Web Application Security

Introduction to Burp Suite Pro

by HollyGraceful

Burp Suite is, as far as I’m concerned, the de facto tool for Web Application Assessments. It’s simple to use and takes little time to get the hang of, but to make sure you’re making the most out of your toolset, I thought I’d post a quick introduction to run through the main tabs and features. Burp Suite is a man-in-the-middle proxy which can intercept HTTP/HTTPS data from web browsers and mobile applications and allow you to read, modify, and repeat requests to servers. It can detect and monitor WebSockets. It’s ideal for testing for a range of security issues within …

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Web Application Security

Burp Suite vs CSRF Tokens

by HollyGraceful

Recently I wrote a quick HowTo about dealing with using Burp Suite against an application that invalidates your session whenever it spots a potential malicious payload. I wrote that a Burp Macro that can perform Automatic Reauthentication can overcome that issue. Another common issue that gets in the way of performing penetration tests against mobile applications is having to deal with anti cross-site request forgery tokens. These are tokens that an application embeds in a response and expects to see in the body of the subsequent request, if the token is ever missing or incorrect the request is ignored. This …

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Web Application Security

Burp Macros: Automatic Re-authentication

by HollyGraceful

During a recent penetration test I came up against a security feature that would invalidate my session whilst I was fuzzing if it saw simple attack strings, so if I used <script> anywhere then it’d kill my session. Most frustrating! Especially as it essentially prevented the use of tools such as Burp’s Active Scanner and it made using Repeater inconvenient too. So I quickly threw together a Burp Macro to handle automatic re-authentication for me and went back to fuzzing! So here’s how to do that!

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