Application Security

Reliable Resources for AppSec

Getting Started

Component	Description
Back end Servers	The hardware and operating system that hosts all other components and are usually run on operating systems like Linux, Windows, or using Containers.
Web Servers	Web servers handle HTTP requests and connections. Some examples are Apache, NGINX, and IIS.
Databases	Databases (DBs) store and retrieve the web application data. Some examples of relational databases are MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, while examples of non-relational databases include NoSQL and MongoDB.
Development Frameworks	Development Frameworks are used to develop the core Web Application. Some well-known frameworks include PHP, C#, Java, Python, and NodeJS JavaScript

Field References

General

OWASP WSTG 4.2 !	Burpsuite: Commercial Web app testing tool !	Awesome Application Security Checklist
OWASP Cheat Sheet Series	Awesome Web Hacking from @infoslack	Awesome Web Security
PortSwigger Web Security Academy Lab Files from @rkhal101	Hack-Tools Chrome Extension for Web Pentesting	OWASP Vulnerability Scanner Tool List
Awesome Hacking Resources	Damn Vulnerable PHP App	Vulnerable Java Application
OWASP Secrets Management focused vulnerable app	403 byebye	TCM Security PWST Lab Environment !
Web Pentesting Checklist by Joas	Hetty tool	HBSQLi

Mobile

Mobile Application Testing Guides

OWASP MASVS -Mobile Application Security Verification Standard

OWASP MSTG - Mobile Application Security Testing Guide

OWASP MAS Checklist

iOS

iOS Testing Guide by Security Innovation

Android

Secure Coding guide by JSSEC	Intro to Android Pentesting by HackTheBox

Security Research

Bug Hunter Handbook	Awesome Bug Bounty Resources	Awesome Bug Bounty Hunting Tool
All About Bug Bounty Note Repo	BugHunter Handbook	Bug Bounty Wiki
VulnPlanet - Vulnerable code snippets with fixes

Top Programs

1. Bugcrowd

2. HackerOne

3. Intigriti

4. YesWeHack

5. Synack, Inc.

6. HackenProof | Web3 bug bounty platform

7. Open Bug Bounty

8. Immunefi

9. Cobalt

10. Zerocopter

11. Yogosha

12. SafeHats

13. Vulnerability Research Labs, LLC

14. AntiHACKme Pte Ltd

15. RedStorm Information Security

16. Cyber Army Indonesia

17. Hacktrophy

18. Nordic Defender

19. Capture The Bug

20. Bugbounter

21. Detectify

22. BugBase

23. Code4rena

24. huntr

25. Pentabug

Code Analysis

• SonarQube website and Git Repo

• CodeCat - open-source tool to help find/track user input sinks and other security bugs

• Betterscan

API

References

Resources
OWASP API Security Top 10 Vulnerabilities	API Security Checklist	Keyhacks
Vulnerable API Instance by @raj-kumar-j	Hacking APIs book by Corey Ball	DVWS: Vulnerable application with web service and API
DVGA: Vulnerable GraphQL API application	API Workshop by Corey Ball	OWASP API Tool List
MindAPI - interactive Mind Map

Testing Tools

Tools
Grapql-cop	graphql voyager -converts a response of an introspection query into a visual graph that maps	InQL -can inspect the introspection query results and generate clean documentation in different formats (Burp Extension)
Online JSON Web Token (JWT) Tool/Reference !	SOAPUI	Postman
Kubeshark - API Traffic Viewer for Kubernetes	Metlo - API security tool	KiteRunner

Threat Modeling

• NIST SP 800-30

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCVhBqLDKoOOZqKt74QI4pbDUnXSQo0nf

Recon

Reconnaissance

Final Recon (Web Reconnaissance) from @thewhiteh4t	Sublist3r	patator
ffuf	wfuzz	xnLinkFinder
WebOSINT	All in One Recon Tool (AORT)	katana by ProjectDiscovery
Domain to IP converter (Python) by @YSSVirus	Cariddi by @edoardott

Directory Fuzzing

CeWL

fzf - Use alias in CLI to easily discover installed wordlists

SecLists - various lists

SubDomain/DNS Enumeration

MayorSec DNS Scan !	PureDNS	DNSrr
AquaTone	DNSReaper

Browser Add-ons

Extensions and Plugins

HackTools Browser Extension Repo (Easier install from extension menu)	Penetration Testing Kit Browser Extension !	Wappalyzer Browser Extension
Vulners Browser Extension	Awesome Burp Extensions	Burp Upload Scanner
Dorkish (Recon)

Burp Add-ons

BurpSuite Plugins

Common
Nuclei burp plugin (in Bapp store) - generate nuclei template from burp requests	HackBar Extension (in Bapp store) - Security testing Payloads
IP Rotate Burp Extension (in BApp store)	Bypass-WAF (in BAPP store)
Autorize - Automatic authorization enforcement detection	Hackvertor – Handy type conversion
Sensitive Discoverer - Discovers sensitive information inside HTTP messages

Additional Plugins

Burp Bounty – Profile-based scanner

Active Scan++ – Add more power to Burp’s Active Scanner

AuthMatrix – Authorization/PrivEsc checks

Broken Link Hijacking – For BLH (Broken Link Hijacking)

Collaborator Everywhere – Pingback/SSRF (Server-Side Request Forgery)

Command Injection Attacker

Content-Type Converter – Trying to bypass certain restrictions by changing Content-Type

Decoder Improved – More decoder features

Freddy – Deserialization

Flow – Better HTTP history

HTTP Request Smuggler

Hunt – Potential vuln identifier

InQL – GraphQL Introspection testing

J2EE Scan – Scanning J2EE apps

JSON/JS Beautifier

JSON Web Token Attacker

ParamMiner – Mine hidden parameters

Reflected File Download Checker

Reflected Parameter – Potential reflection

SAML Raider – SAML testing

Upload Scanner – File upload tester

Web Cache Deception Scanner

WAF

Detection and Evasions

wafw00f from @enableSecurity

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Deobfuscation

JS, PHP, HTML Deobfuscation

Online Javascript Obfuscator	JavaScript Console (test javascript code excution)	Toptal JavaScript-Minifier
Beautifier (obfuscator/code editor for CSS, HTML and JS)	JSNice (JS de-obfuscator)	Prettier (obfuscator/code editor)

Common Attacks

XSS

PortSwigger XSS Cheat Sheet !	XSS Exploitatation Tool	Tiny XSS Payloads
D4rkXSS

LFI/RFI

• LFI Tester

SSRF

Blind SSRF Chains repo

https://github.com/assetnote/surf

SSTI

• TPLMap (Automated Template Injection) from @epinna

• SSTImap (Automated Template Injection) from @vladko312

SQLi

SqlMap: An SQL injection and database takeover tool !	SQL Injection Cheatsheet	Advanced SQL Injection Cheatsheet !
Ghauri	Userefuzz - SQLi Fuzzing tool	SQLi Knowledge Base
SQLRecon - C# Recon and Exploitation for MSSQL	PySQLRecon - Python Recon and Exploitation for MSSQL

Clickjacking

• CSS Button Generator

• CSS Version 3 Button Generator

• Clickjacker - Online tool

• Click-Jack - cli tool

Advanced Attacks

Deserialization

ysoerial for Java libraries	Java Deserialization CheatSheet	ysoserial for .NET libraries
PHP Generic Gadget chains (PHPGGC) - AKA "ysoserial for PHP"