OWASP Zed Attack Proxy- ZAP

OWASP or Open Web Application Security Project is a non profit organisation world wide that are focusing on improving the security of web application, for more about OWASP click here. There are different automatic tools available for testing the security of a web application, and there are different tools for proxy based attack but this time we will discuss about ZAP or Zed Attack Proxy.


The Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It has an automatic scanning functionality and it has a set of tools that allow you to find vulnerability manually.

ZAP provides a basic port scanner which shows which ports are open on the target sites.ZAP is an Intercepting Proxy. It allows you to see all of the requests you make to a web application and all of the responses you receive from it. Amongst other things this allows you to see AJAX calls that may not otherwise be obvious.

ZAP passively scans all of the responses from the web application being tested. Passive scanning does not change the responses in any way and is therefore safe to use.

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Tutorial

You need Java to run the application, after downloading and installation set your browser to the localhost proxy and than open terminal and locate the directory where ZAP has been installed before, now on the terminal type.

$ java -jar zap.jar

The overall process is same as Paros Proxy, because ZAP is a fork of paros proxy.

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by Malik korrich ~ dimanche 5 juin 2011 0 commentaires

Paros Proxy-Web Application Security Assessment

Paros proxy is a web application security assessment tool used to measure the security of a web application. It allows you to see what data exactly do you submit with your HTML form with Post method?

Just like other web application security tools paros can be used to find out the SQL-injection and XSS (Cross site scripting) vulnerability on a web application.

Paros is a Java based HTTP/HTTPS proxy for assessing web application vulnerability. It supports editing/viewing HTTP messages on-the-fly. Other featuers include spiders, client certificate, proxy-chaining, intelligent scanning for XSS and SQL injections etc.

Through Paros's proxy nature, all HTTP and HTTPS data between server and client, including cookies and form fields, can be intercepted and modified.

Paros first crawl the entire website and than execute vulnerability tests, it is comes with an built in session ID analyser, you can generate a graph based on all the session IDS, it is also provides a built in fuzzer option. It is a great,simple and effective tool to use.

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Paros Proxy Tutorial

Before installing paros you must have a java version 1.4 or above. As the name says this tool act as your local web proxy, so after installation you need to set up your browser on the local proxy. Open your browser  network connection and on the proxy tab type.

localhost: 8080

After this all the traffic you male through your browser goes via this tool and the tool first analyse it. 

 

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by Malik korrich ~ jeudi 19 mai 2011 0 commentaires