How To Hack API in 60 Minutes or API Threats Simulation With Open-Source Tools
How To Hack API in 60 Minutes or API Threats Simulation With Open-Source Tools
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API SECURITY
How To Hack
API In 60
Minutes With
Open Source
Tools
What is API?
API is the abbreviation for Application Programming
Interface, which is a product middle person that
permits two applications to converse with one
another.
Useful link:
API security guide for beginners and
professionals
What Is API Testing: Benefits, Types, How To
Start
OpenAPI tutorial: What is, Example, Tools.
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Back-end developer
Framework: A unified way of how to operate things
Specification: It is swagger-based in terms of REST or open
API like circuit version 3 technically or a different schema for
GraphQL or protobuf or descriptions for geo pc.
No HTML markup anymore, just data and business logic: 10
years ago, it was impossible to split data and markup and
everything was always together at that time. But these days,
back-end developers technically put a border between clients
whether from the mobile app or browser javascript their single
page application or business to business integration, basically
custom integration.
Unified back-ends for mobile, web, integrations
DevOps
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Scaling: which microservice and how should I scale to solve
504 on this endpoint? Whether REST API info GraphQL or
whatever orientation.
Security
Attack behavior
Attack payloads
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RESTler, Dredd
Schemathesis
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These are RESTler/Dredd with GraphQL support
ab/jmeter/yandex-tank
GoTestWAF
This is an impressive attack simulation CLI tool. It’s designed with
out-of-the-box PDF reports, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket and
Rest Support. It’s the only gRPC attack generators that we are
familiar with.
How To Fuzz
All you need to know about fuzzing
The fifth step is to add payloads to the end, for example, codes
or payload you know, like xss or the particular serialization
payload specifically related to the particular API.
6. Parameters from other requests (password to logout)
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This deals specifically with negative numbers, for example,
manipulation by multiplying by zillions.
8. Filenames by fuzz.txt
This is just the file names from the fuzz.txt which you can easily
find on Github.
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WP.pdf
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send the data with the arrays and objects to the endpoint that
wasn’t initially designed and the developers never understood
because of the framework or API gateway, the particular endpoint
he developed and the public function that he developed and
released can be used in this way and the data in the function and
the arguments could be completely different so it is important that
we check this.
No 5xx errors
No 1+ms response
The fuzzers produce a lot of locks and we have to find different
things to analyse the locks.
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API Attacks
Simulation Using
Open Source
GoTestWAF Tool
Now, we would have a demonstration of the tools that have been
developed specifically to simulate attacks simply without getting
overloaded by payloads and without worrying about fuzzing
templates. There are simple tools that can be run and used to
check to see if we have enough security for our API. It will also
check for the vulnerability of a system to particle attacks. Next we
will talk about how to hack API with GoTestWAF.
GoTestWAF - API/WAF testing automation
Open-source:
These are open-source tools that are easy to download and run.
Testing for false negatives and false positives both:
These are tools that are designed to check for paths and to
understand if a proxy such as a web application firewall works
effectively.
Dockerized:
It’s stored in dockers, i.e dockerised.
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teams. For instance, if they are unable to read, the security logs
can transmit the pdf report.
This is the basic structure of the test case including the name of
the test case, before testing the set name with 3 unique
parameters namely the placeholder, payload and encoder.
WEBI N A R
This means that the payload test (pernicious assault test, for December 12, 2023
example, a XSS string like "") will be initially encoded or another CISO Top 10 Trends for
will be positioned into an HTTP demand. There is another similar 2024
choice where you get to use a plain encoder that maintains the
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strings without any guarantees.
trends that will define
In order to make tests easy to understand, we have put forward a cybersecurity in 2024 and
YAML DSL with a very similar construction (payload->encoder- beyond.
>placeholder). Here, each of the fields are exhibits and run tests
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in stages through them separately.
Payload
testcases/false-pos:
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Resume
In 2021, you can no longer just say that your API is secure. API
security is now needed more than ever. There have been an
increased number of API breaches since the pandemic. In
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today’s world, protecting your API is even more important
because of the direct access it provides to application and data.
That’s why you need to provide advanced API security. Wallarm
provides enterprise API security. We’ve discussed all the
advanced API protocols you need in this text.
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