Skipfish- Backtrack5 Tutorial
Vulnerability scanners has changed the world of penetration testing, by the right tools and techniques you can test any network and web application for vulnerabilities, there are so many tools available for both network and web application penetration testing. As discussed different tools before this time we will discuss about Skipfish.
Skipfish is an automatic web application security tool, that has been designed to find the vulnerabilities on a web application, find vulnerability on your website before than a hacker find and exploit it.
Skipfish is applicable on cross platform includes Linux, BSD, MAC and windows. It is a power full scanner that crawls targeted website and fully scanned all the pages, it available on backtrack 5, you can get it Application-->backtrack-->Vulnerability assessment--> web application assessment--> web vulnerability scanner--> skipfish
Key Features
- High speed: pure C code, highly optimized HTTP handling, minimal CPU footprint - easily achieving 2000 requests per second with responsive targets.
- Ease of use: heuristics to support a variety of quirky web frameworks and mixed-technology sites, with automatic learning capabilities, on-the-fly wordlist creation, and form autocompletion.
- Cutting-edge security logic: high quality, low false positive, differential security checks, capable of spotting a range of subtle flaws, including blind injection vectors
Skipfish Tutorial
If you are using backtrac5 than you can easily use skipfish while if you are using some other distro of Linux and other operating system than follow the steps below:
Goto terminal and install skipfish dependencies:
ehacking@ubuntu:~ $ sudo -s -Hehacking@ubuntu:~ $ sudo apt-get install libidn11-devehacking@ubuntu:~ $ sudo apt-get install libssl-dev zlib1g-dev
After all the next step is to install skipfish, follow the steps. Download the skipfish link has been shared above.
ehacking@ubuntu:~ $ sha1sum skipfish-1.84b.tgz
Match the checksub with the one provided on the web site, than right click on downloaded file extract it, than on the terminal go to the extracted file.
ehacking@ubuntu:~ $ cd skipfish-1.84behacking@ubuntu:~ skipfish-1.84b $ makeehacking@ubuntu:~ skipfish-1.84b $ cp dictionaries/complete.wl skipfish.wlehacking@ubuntu:~ skipfish-1.84b $ mkdir results
Done now its time to start a attack on web application using skipfish. use this command
./skipfish -o /pentest/web/skipfish/b -W dictionaries/complete.wl http://www.yourweb.com
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