Red - Web App Hacking
Web App Testing Resources
Guides
- OWASP Web Security Testing Guide - comprehensive guide to testing the security of web applications and web services created by the OWASP foundation.
- https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/ - Guide to the top ten most common vulnerabilities encountered in web app pentesting.
- Hacktricks Web Pentesting Guide - Written by Carlos Pollop, the creator of WinPEAS and LinPEAS. Everything this guy makes is gold. Highest of recommendations
- The Bug Hunters Methodology - Written by the Jason Haddix, this repo details his toolset and methodology for web app penetration testing.
- HowToHunt - Amazing collaborative project documenting testing methodology for different web application vulnerabilities.
Resources
There is a bug bounty focused search engine at https://www.bugbountyhunting.com/? that can point you in the direction of tools, attacks, methodology, writeups, anything you want. It is amazing.
- Operator Handbook: Web_Exploit - pg.318
Resource Collections
- Web App Hacking Research by James Kettle - Everything that isnt posted on PortSwigger.com/research, this site is the blog for the research done by PortSwigger's Head of research, James Kettle.
- https://pentestbook.six2dez.com/enumeration/webservices/ - Tools and attacks for specific web services.
Bug Bounty
Platforms
Resources and Reference
- Methodology
- Resource collections
- Write-up tools
- Bug Bounty Reconnaissance Framework (BBRF)
- Write-ups and Scopes
- bounty-targets-data - This repo contains hourly-updated data dumps of bug bounty platform scopes (like Hackerone/Bugcrowd/Intigriti/etc) that are eligible for reports
Web App Testing Frameworks
Scanning Utilities
Mapping the Site
Web Technologies
Attacks and Vulnerabilities
Misc Tools
- https://www.webgap.io/ - WEBGAP remote browser isolation physically isolates you from the risks of using the internet by isolating your web browsing activity away from your local device.
- https://requestbin.com/ - A modern request bin to collect, inspect and debug HTTP requests and webhooks
- Race-the-web - Tests for race conditions in web applications. Includes a RESTful API to integrate into a continuous integration pipeline.
- DVCS-Ripper - Rip web accessible (distributed) version control systems: SVN, GIT, Mercurial/hg, bzr, etc.
- SSLStrip - This is a new version of [Moxie´s SSLstrip] (http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslstrip/) with the new feature to avoid HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) protection mechanism.
- BB King's Quieter Firefox template - Stripped down Firefox with no callouts to throw off traffic. Great for testing of all sorts.
- Unfurl - Tool for breaking down a URL to better understand its components.Fake credit card numbers for testing payment systems
Training and Resources
For resources including offensive security courses, books, CTFs and much more, please check out the Training and Resources section of this guide.
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