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Learning Python Web Penetration Testing

Make your applications attack-proof by penetration testing with Python

Make your applications attack-proof by penetration testing with Python

About This Video

• Become proficient at writing your own tools to identify security vulnerabilities in web applications
• Take your first steps to becoming a security professional by getting an in-depth understanding of the process behind web application security testing
• See practical examples of each phase of the web application testing process: Reconnaissance, Mapping, Vulnerability Discovery, and Vulnerability Exploitation

In Detail

With the huge growth in the number of web applications in the recent times, there has also been an upsurge in the need to make these applications secure. Web penetration testing is the use of tools and code to attack a website or web app in order to assess its vulnerabilities to external threats. While there are an increasing number of sophisticated ready-made tools to scan systems for vulnerabilities, the use of Python allows testers to write system-specific scripts, or alter and extend existing testing tools to find, exploit, and record as many security weaknesses as possible.

This course will walk you through the web application penetration testing methodology, showing you how to write your own tools with Python for every main activity in the process. It will show you how to test for security vulnerabilities in web applications just like security professionals and hackers do.

The course starts off by providing an overview of the web application penetration testing process and the tools used by professionals to perform these tests. Then we provide an introduction to HTTP and how to interact with web applications using Python and the Requests library. Then will follow the web application penetration testing methodology and cover each section with a supporting Python example. To finish off, we test these tools against a vulnerable web application created specifically for this course.

Stop just running automated tools—write your own and modify existing ones to cover your needs! This course will give you a flying start as a security professional by giving you the necessary skills to write custom tools for different scenarios and modify existing Python tools to suit your application’s needs.

Course Curriculum

Introduction

• The Course Overview (5:58)
• Understanding Web Application Penetration Testing Process (7:50)
• Typical Web Application Toolkit (6:19)
• Testing Environment (6:15)

Interacting with Web Applications

• HTTP Protocol Basics (7:10)
• Anatomy of an HTTP Request (7:56)
• Interacting with Web Apps Using Requests Library (10:24)
• Analyzing the Responses (7:22)

Web Crawling with Scrapy

• Web Application Mapping (3:36)
• Creating a Crawler with Scrapy (7:56)
• Recursive Crawling (3:43)
• Extracting Information (5:23)

Resources Discovery

• What Is Resource Discovery? (4:02)
• Building Our First Brute Forcer (5:25)
• Analyzing the Results (5:17)
• Adding More Information (3:54)t
• Taking Screenshots of the Findings (4:15)

Password Testing

• How Password Attacks Work? (4:56)
• Our First Password Brute Forcer (4:38)
• Adding Support for Digest Authentication (4:43)
• Form-based Authentication (7:08)

Detecting and Exploiting SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

• SQL Injection Vulnerability (4:50)
• Detecting SQL Injection Issues (8:09)t
• Exploiting a SQL Injection to Extract Data (6:00)
• Advanced SQLi Exploiting (3:55)

Intercepting HTTP Requests

• HTTP Proxy Anatomy (4:07)
• Introduction to mitmproxy (3:53)
• Manipulating HTTP Requests (6:53)
• Automating SQLi in mitmproxy (4:38)
• Wrapping Up (3:55)