RE: Web Browser For Penetration Test

["Evans, Arian" <Arian.Evans () fishnetsecurity com>]

There are a number of IE plugins I've found out there, but
most don't seem to work right with the newest IE 6 or 7.

Same with Firefox's extensions; they work great *except*
several cannot capture or manipulate POSTdata, and a few
force you to deal with browser encoding requirements,
significantly limiting proper XSS testing.

Fiddler works great, unless you test SSL protected sites,
which is the majority of what I work on. btw// If we can
get the OK from Microsoft, we want to dump the fiddler code
into our .NET proxy (see Paraegis project/BlackHat Europe
2006) we just released as we have support for SSL built in,
and it would significantly extend Fiddler.

Ecyware GreenBlue Inspector is another very nice IE-interface
for testing web applications. The GUI is very fast and simple
for testing things like XSS, SQL injection, and method enforcement.

If you want a local proxy, there are a ton out there for free
or low prices, with a wide array of strengths and weaknesses:
-OWASP WebScarab
-Paros
-Watchfire Powertools (nice free windows proxy)
-Burp Suite (one of the best GUI fuzzers around built in)
-Odysseus (I personally don't like the GUI)
-there are probably 15 more and new projects keep cropping
up all the time.

I'm almost done with the third version of the OWASP tools list
which will be in PDF, and has a ton of these type of tools
categorized by testing features.

-ae

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard M. Smith [mailto:rms () computerbytesman com] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 9:23 AM
> To: webappsec () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Web Browser For Penetration Test
>
>
> Here's the IE tool that I use:
>
> http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/
>
> Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic 
> between your
> computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all 
> HTTP Traffic,
> set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. 
> Fiddler is
> designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, 
> and includes a
> simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting subsystem.
>
>
> Its biggest limitation is that it doesn't do HTTPS.
>
> Richard 
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nimdA [mailto:nimda1 () gmail com] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 08, 2006 6:47 AM
> To: webappsec () securityfocus com
> Subject: Web Browser For Penetration Test
>
> Dear All
>
> I'm looking for web browser that help me in penetration testing of web
> applications, there are a lot of scanning tools, but I'm 
> looking for a basic
> web browser which allow me to control all the data that send 
> to or receive
> from the web server.
>
> There are some grate tools like minibrowser, but with complex 
> application it
> did not work fine unless you use "Internet Explorer" as a 
> browser, and you
> will lose the benefits of this browser.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't find other browser that does the same thing.
> What I'm looking for is a simple application, before send or 
> receiving any
> value from the web server asks the user to confirm that data 
> that will send
> or will receive, not more then that.
>
> So, If any one know some software or IE plug-in or client 
> proxy that will
> help me on this, please send it.
>
> Thanks.
>
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