Web Hacking Arsenal: A Practical Guide to Modern Web Pentesting

Cover....1

Half Title....2

Title....4

Copyright....5

Contents....6

Foreword....22

Preface....26

Acknowledgments....28

About the Author....30

1 Introduction to Web and Browser....32

1.1 Introduction....32

1.2 Introduction to HTTP....32

1.2.1 Properties of HTTP....33

1.2.2 HTTP Communications....33

1.2.3 HTTP Response Codes....35

1.2.4 HTTP Request Methods....36

1.3 Common Vulnerabilities in HTTP Headers....37

1.3.1 User-Agent-Based Spoofing....37

1.3.2 Host Header Injection....37

1.3.3 Cross-Domain Referer Leakage....37

1.4 HTTP 2....38

1.5 Evolution of Modern Web Applications....38

1.5.1 Shift in Architecture....38

1.5.2 Evolution in Technology Stacks....39

1.5.3 LAMP Stack....39

1.5.4 MEAN/MERN Stack....39

1.5.5 Single-Page Applications (SPAs)....39

1.5.6 Use of Cloud Components....40

1.5.7 Serverless Architecture....40

1.6 Understanding Data Encoding....40

1.6.1 URL Encoding....42

1.6.2 Double Encoding....42

1.6.3 HTML Encoding....43

1.6.4 Base64 Encoding....44

1.6.5 Unicode Encoding....45

1.7 Introduction to Browsers....45

1.7.1 User Interface....46

1.7.2 Browser Engine....46

1.7.3 Rendering Engine....47

1.7.4 Networking....47

1.7.5 UI Backend....47

1.7.6 JavaScript Interpreter....47

1.7.7 Data Storage....47

1.8 Core Browser Security Policies and Mechanisms....47

1.8.1 Same-Origin Policy....48

1.8.2 Content Security Policy....50

1.8.3 HTTP Cookies....50

1.8.4 Iframe Sandbox....56

1.8.5 Subresource Integrity Check....56

1.8.6 HTTP Strict Transport Layer Security (HSTS)....57

1.9 Policy Exceptions versus Policy Bypasses....58

1.9.1 SOP Bypass Types....58

1.9.2 SOP Bypass—CVE-2007–0981....58

1.9.3 SOP Bypass—CVE-2011–3246....60

1.10 Site Isolation....60

1.11 Address Bar Spoofing Bugs....61

1.11.1 Address Bar Spoofing—Example 1....62

1.11.2 Address Bar Spoofing—Example 2....62

1.11.3 Bypassing Anti-Phishing Filters Using Spoofing....64

1.12 Extra Mile....66

2 Intelligence Gathering and Enumeration....68

2.1 Introduction....68

2.1.1 Enumerating ASN and IP Blocks....69

2.1.2 Reverse IP Lookup....71

2.2 Reverse IP Lookup with Multi-Threadings....72

2.2.1 Scanning for Open Ports/Services....73

2.3 Scanning Open Ports with Masscan....73

2.4 Detecting HTTP Services by Running Httpx....74

2.4.1 Scanning for Service Versions....74

2.5 Subdomain Enumeration....75

2.5.1 Active Subdomain Enumeration....76

2.6 DNSValidator....76

2.7 ShuffleDNS....77

2.8 Subbrute....78

2.9 Gobuster....79

2.9.1 Subdomain Enumeration Subdomains From Content Security Policy....79

2.9.2 Subdomain Enumeration Using Favicon Hashes....80

2.10 Putting It All Together....82

2.10.1 Passive Enumeration of Subdomains....83

2.10.2 Active + Passive Subdomain Enumeration Using Amass....88

2.10.3 Data Consolidation....92

2.11 Subdomain Takeover....93

2.11.1 Automated Subdomain Takeover Using Subjack....95

2.12 Fingerprint Web Applications....95

2.12.1 Directory Fuzzing....96

2.12.2 Discovering Endpoints Using Passive Enumeration Techniques....97

2.12.3 Enumerating Input Parameters....104

2.13 Mapping the Attack Surface Using Crawling/Spidering....106

2.13.1 Crawling Using Gospider....106

2.14 Automatic Mapping of New Attack Surface....109

2.15 Fingerprinting Web Applications....111

2.15.1 Inspecting HTTP Response Headers....112

2.15.2 Forcing Errors for Exposing Versions....112

2.15.3 Fingerprinting Using WhatWeb/Wappalyzer....112

2.15.4 Wappalyzer Browser Extensions....113

2.16 Detecting Known Vulnerabilities and Exploits....114

2.17 Vulnerability Scanning Using Nuclei....115

2.18 Cloud Enumeration....116

2.18.1 AWS S3 Buckets Enumeration....116

2.18.2 Exploiting Misconfigured AWS S3 Buckets....120

2.18.3 Exploiting Authenticated Users Group Misconfiguration....121

2.19 Extra mile....123

3 Introduction to Server-Side Injection Attacks....124

3.1 Introduction to Server-Side Injection Attacks....124

3.2 Introduction to SQL Injection....124

3.2.1 Classification of SQL Injection....125

3.2.2 SQL Injection Techniques....125

3.2.3 SQLi Data Extraction Using UNION-Based Technique....128

3.3 SQLMap Tip 1....138

3.3.1 SQL Injection to RCE....138

3.4 Retrieving Working Directory....140

3.4.1 Error-Based SQL Injection....141

3.4.2 Boolean SQL Injection....144

3.5 SQLMap Tip 2....148

3.5.1 Time-Based SQL Injection....148

3.5.2 SQLMap Tip....153

3.5.3 Second-Order SQL Injection....153

3.6 SQLMap Tip 3....160

3.6.1 Using Tamper Scripts in SQLMap....160

3.7 Remote Command Execution....164

3.7.1 RCE in Node.js....164

3.7.2 RCE in Flask Application....166

3.8 Server-Side Template Injections (SSTI)....168

3.8.1 Introduction About Templating Engines....168

3.8.2 Identifying Template Injections....170

3.9 Exploiting Template Injections....171

3.9.1 Example # 1 (Python, Jinja2)....172

3.9.2 Example # 2 (Python, Mako)....175

3.10 NoSQL Injection Vulnerabilities....177

3.10.1 MongoDB NoSQL Injection Exploitation....178

3.10.2 NoSQL Injection Real-World Examples....181

3.11 Extra Mile....182

4 Client-Side Injection Attacks....183

4.1 Introduction to XSS....183

4.2 Types of XSS....184

4.3 Reflected XSS....184

4.4 Understanding Context in XSS....185

4.5 XSS Polyglots....187

4.6 Bypassing HTMLSpecialChars....187

4.7 HTMLSpecialChars without Enquotes....188

4.8 Bypassing HTMLSpecialChars with Enquotes....189

4.9 Bypassing HTMLSpecialChars in SVG Context....190

4.10 Stored XSS....191

4.10.1 DOM-Based XSS....193

4.11 Sources and Sinks....194

4.12 Root Cause Analysis....197

4.13 JQuery DOM XSS....199

4.14 JQuery Example #1....200

4.15 JQuery Example #2....200

4.15.1 Client-Side Template Injections....201

4.16 XSS in AngularJS....202

4.17 XSS in ReactJS....204

4.18 XSS via File Upload....204

4.19 XSS Through SVG File....205

4.20 XSS Through MetaData....206

4.20.1 Weaponizing XSS....207

4.21 XSS to Account Takeover....207

4.22 XSS-Based Phishing Attack....209

4.23 XSS Keylogging....211

4.24 Content Security Policy (CSP) Bypass....211

4.25 CSP Bypass: Example #1 Unsafe Inline....212

4.26 CSP Bypass: Example #2—Third-Party Endpoints and “Unsafe-Eval”....213

4.27 CSP Bypass: Example #3—Data URI Allowed....214

4.28 CSP Bypass: Example #4—XSS Through JavaScript File Upload....215

4.29 Exploiting Browser Bugs for XSS....218

4.30 SOP and Document.Domain....218

4.31 DOM Clobbering....220

4.32 ID and Name Attribute....220

4.33 Example 1: Using Anchor Tag to Overwrite Global Variable....221

4.34 Example 2: Breaking Filters with DOM Clobbering....223

4.35 Cookie Property Overriding....224

4.36 Breaking Github Gist Using DOM Clobbering....224

4.37 Mutation-Based XSS (mXSS)....225

4.38 MXSS Mozilla Bleach Clean Function CVE 2020–6802....228

4.39 Behavior of Browser’s HTML Parser....229

4.40 Extra Mile....229

5 Cross-Site Request Forgery Attacks....231

5.1 Introduction to CSRF Vulnerabilities....231

5.1.1 How Does CSRF Work?....231

5.1.2 Constructing CSRF Payload....233

5.1.3 CSRF Payloads without User Interaction....235

5.1.4 Exploiting CSRF Payload in GET Requests....236

5.1.5 CSRF Payload Delivery....237

5.2 Exploiting JSON-Based CSRF....237

5.2.1 Scenario 1: Missing Content-Type Validation and JSON Formatting....237

5.3 Scenario 2: Content-Type Is Not Validated, But JSON Syntax Is Verified....239

5.4 Scenario 3: When Server Is Expecting Application/JSON Content-Type Header....239

5.5 Automating CSRF POC Generation....239

5.5.1 OWASP ZAP POC Generator....240

5.5.2 CSRF POC Generator....240

5.6 Exploiting Multi-Staged CSRF....241

5.7 Exploiting Weak Anti-CSRF Defenses....245

5.7.1 CSRF Defenses—Weak/Predictable Anti-CSRF Tokens....245

5.7.2 CSRF Bypass—Unverified CSRF Tokens....246

5.7.3 CSRF Bypass—Referer/Origin Check....247

5.7.4 Scenario 1: Application Not Properly Validating Referer Header....248

5.7.5 Scenario 2: Weak Regex for Referer/Origin Validation....249

5.7.6 Scenario 3: Subdomain-Based Referer Validation Bypass....249

5.8 Scenario 4: Inconsistent Handling of Referer Headers....250

5.8.1 Circumventing CSRF Defenses via XSS....250

5.9 SameSite Cookies....253

5.9.1 SameSite Strict Bypass....254

5.9.2 SameSite Strict Bypass via Subdomains....255

5.9.3 SameSite Lax....256

5.9.4 SameSite Lax Bypass....256

5.9.5 SameSite None....257

5.10 Extra Mile....257

6 Webapp File System Attack....258

6.1 Introduction....258

6.2 Directory Traversal Attacks....258

6.3 Directory Traversal on Node.js App....260

6.4 Fuzzing Internal Files with FFUF....262

6.4.1 Directory Traversal and Arbitrary File Creation Vulnerability....263

6.5 File Inclusion Vulnerabilities....264

6.5.1 Local File Inclusion to Remote Code Execution....266

6.5.2 LFI to RCE via Apache Log Files....266

6.5.3 LFI to RCE via SSH Auth Log....268

6.5.4 LFI to RCE Using PHP Wrappers and Protocols....269

6.5.5 LFI to RCE via Race Condition....270

6.6 Local File Disclosure....273

6.7 File Upload Attacks....276

6.7.1 PHP Disable Functions....277

6.8 Bypassing File Upload Restrictions....280

6.8.1 Bypassing Client-Side Validation....280

6.8.2 Bypassing Blacklist-Based Filters....281

6.8.3 Apache. htaccess Override....283

6.8.4 MIME-Type Verification Bypass....284

6.8.5 Bypassing Magic Bytes....286

6.8.6 Method 1: Injecting through EXIF Data....286

6.8.7 Method 2: Raw Insertion....288

6.8.8 Vulnerabilities in Image-Parsing Libraries....288

Extra Mile....290

7 Authentication, Authorization, and SSO Attacks....291

7.1 Introduction....291

7.2 Attacks against Authentication....292

7.2.1 Username Enumeration....292

7.2.2 Username Enumeration through Timing Attack....293

7.2.3 Brute Force and Dictionary Attacks....294

7.2.4 Brute Forcing HTTP Basic Authentication....295

7.2.5 Attacking Form-Based Authentication....295

7.3 Attacking Account Lockout Policy....298

7.4 Bypassing Rate-Limiting Mechanism....299

7.4.1 Other Ways to Bypass Rate Limiting....300

7.5 Bypassing CAPTCHA....301

7.5.1 Replay Attack....302

7.6 Dynamic CAPTCHA Generation Bypass Using OCR....307

7.7 Abusing Forgot Password Functionality....310

7.7.1 Predictable Reset Token....310

7.8 Password Reset Link Poisoning via Host Header Injection....313

7.9 Attacking Authorization....315

7.9.1 Lack of Access Control....316

7.9.2 Insecure Direct Object References (IDOR)....318

7.9.3 Web Parameter Tampering....320

7.9.4 Attacking JWT....323

7.10 None Algorithm....328

7.11 Attacking OAuth 2.0....330

7.11.1 OAuth Scenario 1: Stealing OAuth Tokens via Redirect_uri....332

7.11.2 OAuth Scenario 2: Stealing Users’ OAuth Tokens via Bypassing Redirect_uri....335

7.12 Attacking SAML....336

7.12.1 SAML Workflow....337

7.12.2 SAML Scenario 1: Response Tampering....337

7.12.3 SAML Scenario 2: Signature Exclusion Attack....340

7.13 Attacking Multi-Factor Authentication....341

7.13.1 Multi-Factor Authentication Bypasses....342

7.13.2 MFA Bypass Scenario: OTP Bypass....342

7.14 Web Cache Deception....345

7.15 Extra Mile....346

8 Business Logic Flaws....347

8.1 Introduction....347

8.2 Business Logic Flaws....347

8.2.1 Unlimited Wallet Balance Manipulation....348

8.2.2 Transaction Duplication Vulnerability....350

8.2.3 Improper Validation Rule Resulting in Business Logic Flaw....351

8.2.4 Exploiting Top-Up Feature to Steal Customer Balance....352

8.2.5 Lack of Validation Leads to Unlimited Card Limit....353

8.2.6 Unauthorized Manipulation of Cart Items Pre-/Post-Authentication....354

8.2.7 Loan Amount Restriction Bypass....356

8.2.8 Abuse of Feature Leads to Unlimited Wallet Balance....357

8.3 Race Condition Vulnerabilities....358

8.3.1 Race Condition Leading to Manipulation of Votes....359

8.3.2 Creating Multiple Accounts with the Same Details Using Race Condition....362

8.3.3 Exploiting Race Condition in Coupon Code Feature for Duplicate Discounts....363

8.4 Extra Mile....364

9 Exploring XXE, SSRF, and Request Smuggling Techniques....366

9.1 Introduction to XML....366

9.2 XML Structure....367

9.2.1 XML DTD....367

9.2.2 External DTD....368

9.2.3 XML Entities....369

9.3 XXE (XML External Entity)....370

9.3.1 XXE Local File Read....371

9.3.2 Remote Code Execution Using XXE....375

9.3.3 XXE JSON to XML....376

9.3.4 XXE Through File Parsing....377

9.3.5 Reading Local Files via php://....379

9.4 Blind XXE Exploitation Using Out-of-Band (OOB) Channels....380

9.4.1 Parameter Entities....380

9.4.2 OOB XXE via HTTP....381

9.4.3 XXE OOB Using FTP....383

9.4.4 Error-Based Blind XXE....384

9.5 Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)....384

9.5.1 SSRF Port Scan....385

9.5.2 File Read with SSRF....387

9.5.3 SSRF in PHP Thumb Application....388

9.5.4 Validation of the Vulnerability....389

9.5.5 SSRF to Remote Code Execution (RCE)....390

9.5.6 Scanning for Open Ports....390

9.5.7 Interacting with Redis and the Gopher Protocol....392

9.5.8 Chaining SSRF with Redis for File Write to Obtain RCE....393

9.5.9 DNS Rebinding in SSRF Attacks....394

9.6 HTTP Request Smuggling/HTTP Desync Attacks....397

9.6.1 CL.TE Technique Leading to Persistent XSS....398

9.6.2 CVE-2019–20372: HTTP Request Smuggling via Error Pages in NGINX....401

Extra Mile....403

10 Attacking Serialization....404

10.1 Introduction to Serialization....404

10.1.1 Concept of Gadget....405

10.2 Insecure Deserialization/PHP Object Injection....405

10.2.1 PHP Magic Functions....407

10.2.2 PHP Object Injection—Example....407

10.2.3 PHP Object Injection in SugarCRM....409

10.2.4 Input Parameters....410

10.2.5 Finding a Magic Function....411

10.3 Insecure Deserialization—DOT NET....414

10.3.1 Deserialization of the Base64-Encoded Payload....417

10.3.2 ASP.NET Viewstate Insecure Deserialization....417

10.3.3 MAC Validation and Encryption....418

10.3.4 Exploiting with YSOSerial....419

10.3.5 Blacklist3r....419

10.4 Decoding VIEWSTATE....419

10.5 Insecure Deserialization—Python....420

10.5.1 Serializing the Data with Pickle.Dumps....420

10.5.2 Deserializing the Bytes with Pickle.Loads....421

10.6 Insecure Deserialization—Java....426

10.6.1 Gadgets Libraries in Java....427

10.6.2 Insecure Deserialization—Example....427

10.6.3 Vulnerable Code....428

10.6.4 Verifying the Vulnerability....428

10.6.5 Generating the URLDNS Payload....428

10.6.6 Obtaining RCE Using Insecure Deserialization....429

10.6.7 Blackbox Review of Java-Based Applications....432

10.6.8 Java Framework and Libraries Indicators....433

10.7 Extra Mile....433

11 Pentesting Web Services and Cloud Services....434

11.1 Introduction....434

11.1.1 Differences between RPC and REST....435

11.1.2 Monolithic versus Distributed Architecture....435

11.2 Introduction to SOAP....436

11.2.1 Interacting with SOAP Services....437

11.2.2 Invoking Hidden Methods in SOAP....437

11.2.3 SOAP Account-Takeover Vulnerability....440

11.2.4 Remote Code Execution (RCE) in SOAP Service....442

11.2.5 Finding Writable Directory....444

11.2.6 Uploading Shell to Achieve RCE....444

11.3 JSON-RPC Vulnerabilities....445

11.4 REST API....447

11.4.1 Request Methods....448

11.4.2 Identifying REST API Endpoints....448

11.4.3 Example 1: Excessive Data Exposure....449

11.4.4 Example 2: Sensitive Data Exposure....450

11.4.5 Example 3: Unauthorized Modification Using Users’ Profile....451

11.5 GraphQL Vulnerabilities....451

11.5.1 Enumerating GraphQL Endpoint....453

11.5.2 GraphQL Introspection....453

11.6 Response....456

11.6.1 Information Disclosure: GraphQL Field Suggestions....457

11.6.2 GraphQL Introspection Query for Mutation....458

11.7 Response....461

11.8 Response....462

11.9 Serverless Applications Vulnerabilities....462

11.9.1 Functions as a Service (FaaS)....463

11.10 Sensitive Information Exposure....464

11.10.1 Serverless Event Injection....465

11.10.2 Analysis of Vulnerable Code....466

11.11 Extra Mile....468

12 Attacking HTML5....469

12.1 Introduction....469

12.2 Cross-Origin Resource Sharing....469

12.2.1 Weak Access Control Using Origin Header....471

12.2.2 CORS Leading to DOM XSS Vulnerability....472

12.2.3 Exploiting OpenRedirects....474

12.3 Web Storage: An Overview....474

12.3.1 Session Storage....474

12.3.2 Local Storage....475

12.3.3 Session/Local Storage API....475

12.3.4 Security Concerns with Web Storage in HTML5....476

12.3.5 Session Hijacking....476

12.3.6 Second-Order DOM XSS Using Local Storage....476

12.4 IndexedDB Vulnerabilities....478

12.4.1 Scenario—A Notes Application....479

12.5 Web Messaging Attacks Scenarios....482

12.5.1 Sender’s Window....482

12.5.2 Receiver’s Window....483

12.5.3 Security Concerns....483

12.5.4 Not Validating Origin in PostMessage API....483

12.5.5 DOM XSS in PostMessage API....484

12.6 WebWorkers Vulnerabilities....487

12.6.1 Interacting with WebWorker....487

12.6.2 WebWorker DOM XSS....488

12.6.3 Distributed Denial of Service Attacks Using WebWorkers....489

12.6.4 Distributed Password Cracking Using WebWorker....491

12.7 WebSockets....492

12.7.1 WebSocket DOM XSS....493

12.7.2 Cross-Site WebSocket Hijacking (CSWH)....494

12.7.3 WebSocket and Unencrypted Connections....497

12.8 UI Redressing Attacks....497

12.9 Extra Mile....502

13 Evading Web Application Firewalls (WAFs)....503

13.1 Introduction to WAF....503

13.1.1 WAF Detection Methods....503

13.1.2 Regular Expressions....504

13.1.3 Bayesian Analysis....504

13.1.4 Machine Learning....504

13.1.5 Understanding WAF Security Models: Whitelisting and Blacklisting....504

13.1.6 Whitelisting-Based Models....504

13.1.7 Blacklisting-Based Models....505

13.1.8 Fingerprinting WAF....506

13.1.9 Cookie Values....507

13.1.10 Citrix Netscaler....507

13.1.11 F5 Big IP ASM....507

13.1.12 Barracuda WAF....508

13.1.13 HTTP Response Codes....508

13.1.14 ModSecurity....508

13.1.15 Sucuri WAF....509

13.1.16 CloudFlare WAF....509

13.1.17 Connection Close....510

13.2 Bypass WAF—Methodology Exemplified at XSS....511

13.2.1 Injecting Harmless HTML....511

13.2.2 Considerations....511

13.2.3 Injecting Script Tag....511

13.2.4 Testing with Attributes and Corresponding Tags....512

13.2.5 Testing with src Attribute....512

13.2.6 Testing with Srcdoc Attribute....513

13.2.7 Testing with Action Attribute....513

13.3 Testing with Formaction Attribute....513

13.3.1 Testing with Data Attribute....514

13.3.2 Testing with href Attribute....514

13.3.3 Testing with Pseudo-Protocols....515

13.3.4 Using HTML Character Entities for Evasion....518

13.3.5 Injecting Event Handlers....519

13.3.6 Injecting a Fictitious Event Handler....520

13.3.7 Injecting Lesser-Known Event Handlers....520

13.3.8 Injecting Location Object....521

13.3.9 Bypass Using Unicode Separators....522

13.3.10 Using SVG-Based Vectors....524

13.3.11 Bypassing WAF’s Blocking Parenthesis....524

13.3.12 Bypassing Keyword-Based Filters....524

13.3.13 Character Escapes....525

13.3.14 Constructing Strings in JavaScript....525

13.3.15 Accessing Properties through Syntactic Notation....526

13.3.16 Bypassing Keyword-Based Filters Using Non-Alphanumeric JS....527

13.3.17 Alternative Execution Sinks....527

13.3.18 Bypassing WAF’s Decoding Entities....529

13.3.19 Case Study: Laravel XSS Filter Bypass....529

13.3.20 Bypassing Recursive Filters through Tag Nesting....531

13.3.21 Bypassing Filters with Case Sensitivity....531

13.3.22 Bypassing Improper Input Escaping....532

13.3.23 Bypassing Using DOM XSS....534

13.3.24 Example for Disallowed Keywords....535

13.3.25 Using Window.Name Property....535

13.4 Setting the Name Property....536

13.5 Example 1: Using the Iframe Tag....536

13.6 Example 2: Window.open Function....536

13.7 Example 3: Anchor Tag....537

13.7.1 Bypassing Blacklisted “Location” Keyword....537

13.7.2 Variations Using Different Browser Properties....538

13.7.3 Bypassing WAF Using HPP....538

13.8 Example with XSS....538

13.9 Example with SQL Injection....539

13.10 Extra Mile....539

14 Report Writing....540

14.1 Introduction....540

14.2 Reporting Audience....540

14.3 Executive Summary....541

14.3.1 Structure of an Executive Summary....541

14.3.2 Executive Summary Fail....543

14.3.3 Recommendations Report....544

14.4 Findings Summary....544

14.4.1 Overall Strengths....545

14.4.2 Overall Weaknesses....546

14.5 Historical Comparison....546

14.6 Narrative of the Report....547

14.7 Risk Assessment....547

14.7.1 CVSS Scoring....548

14.7.2 Limitations of CVSS....550

14.8 Risk Matrix....550

14.8.1 Risk Assessment and Reporting....551

14.9 Methodology....551

14.10 Technical Report....551

14.11 Organizing the Report....555

14.12 Report Writing Tools....556

14.12.1 ChatGPT for Report Writing....556

14.12.2 Prompt 1....556

14.12.3 Prompt 2....557

14.12.4 Prompt 3....558

14.12.5 Prompt 4....559

14.13 Report Writing Tips....560

14.14 Extra Mile....561

Index....562

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