This course is focused on the practical side of penetration testing without neglecting the theory behind each attack. Before jumping into penetration testing, you will first learn how to set up a lab and install needed software to practice penetration testing on your own machine.
Then you will learn what is a website, how does it work,
what does it rely on, what do mean by a web server, a database, and how
all of these components work together to give us functioning websites,
Once you understand how websites work we will start talking about how can we exploit these components and this method of communication to carry out a number of powerful attacks. This course will take you from a beginner to a more advanced level -- by
the time you finish, you will be able to launch attacks and test the
security of websites and web applications exactly the same way that
black hat hackers would do, not only that but
you'll be able to fix these vulnerabilities and secure websites from them. All the attacks explained in this course are launched against real devices in my lab.
The course is divided into the three main sections:
1. Information Gathering - This section will teach you how
to gather information about your target website, you will learn how to
discover the DNS server used, the services, subdomains, un-published
directories, sensitive files, user emails, websites on the same server
and even the web hosting provider. This information is crucial as it
increases the chances of being able to successfully gain access to the
target website.
2. Discovering, Exploiting & Fixing - In this section you will learn how to discover, exploit and fix
a large number of vulnerabilities, this section is divided into a
number of sub-sections, each covering a specific vulnerability, firstly
you will learn
what is that vulnerability and what does it allow us to do, then you will learn how to exploit this vulnerability, and finally we will have a look on the code causing this vulnerability and show you how to fix it and secure the website from it, the following vulnerabilities are covered in the course:
- File upload : This vulnerability allow attackers to
upload executable files on the target web server, exploiting these
vulnerabilities properly gives you
full control over the target website .
- Code Execution - This
vulnerability allow users to run system code on the target web server,
this can be used to execute malicious code and get a
reverse shell access which gives the attacker full control over the target web server.
- Local File inclusion - This vulnerability can be used to read any file on the target derver, this can exploited to read sensitive files, we will not stop at that though, you will learn two methods to escalate this vulnerability and get a reverse shell connection which gives you full control over the target web server.
- Remote File inclusion - This vulnerability can be load remote files on the target web server, exploiting this vulnerability properly gives you full control over the target web server.
- SQL Injection- This is one of the biggest sections on the course, this is because this is one of the most dangerous vulnerabilities ever, it is found everywhere, not only that but it can be exploited to do all of the things the above vulnerabilities allow us to and more, so it allows you to login as admin without knowing the password, access the database and
get all data stored there such as usernames, passwords, credit cards
....etc, read files stored in the server, write files to the server and
even get a reverse shell access which gives you
full control over the web server!
- XSS - This
vulnerability can be used to run javascript code on users who access
the vulnerable pages, we won't stop at that, you will learn how to
steal credentials from users (such as facebook or youtube passwords) and even gain full access to their computer. You will learn all three types (reflected, stored and DOM-based).
- Insecure Session Management -
In this section you will learn how to exploit insecure session
management in web applications and login to other user accounts without
knowing their password, you'll also learn how to discover and exploit
CSRF (Cross Site Reguest Forgery.
- Brute Force & Dictionary Attacks -
In this section you will learn what are these attacks, what is the
difference between them and how to launch them, in successful cases you
will be able to
guess the password for your target login.
3. Post Exploitation - In this section you will learn what can you do with the access you gained from exploiting the above vulnerabilities, you will learn how to convert reverse shell access to a Weevely access and vice versa, you will also learn how to run system commands on the target server, navigate between directories, access other websites on the same server, upload/download files, access the database and even download the whole database to your local machine, you will learn how to bypass security and do all of that even if you did not have permissions to do that!
All the attacks in this course are practical attacks that work against any real websites, in each vulnerability you will learn the basic exploitation, then you will learn advanced methods that will give you more privileges or allow you to bypass security measurements -- You will learn how and why these vulnerabilities are exploitable, how to fix them and what are the right practices to avoid casing them.
NOTE: This course is created for educational purposes only
and all the attacks are launched in my own lab or against devices that I
have permission to test.
