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How to create a web application pentest lab

Good Evening friends. Today we will see a step by step guide  on how to create a web application pen test lab .

For creating this lab, I am using a host machine with Windows 7 installed on it.  We also need the following software.

1. Wamp server ( Download here)

2. Vulnerawa ( Download here )

3. Vmware Workstation   or Oracle Virtualbox ( Download here )

4. Kali Linux ( Download here )

Download the above software to your system. Install Wamp server.  For this WAPT lab,  we will use Vulnerawa as a vulnerable website or target website. Extract the contents of the vulnerawa.zip folder to the root folder of the Wamp server. Now open a browser and and type localhost in the URL bar to see if you can see the victim webapp as shown below.

Click on “Create Database” to create some data which we will use in our future howto’s.

Now let’s change the permissions of the Wamp server to access it from our attacker machine. Go to Apache>httpd.conf as shown below.

You should see the httpd.conf as shown below.  Type CTRL+F and search for word “stuff”. After you find it, make changes  as shown below in the red box. Save the file by typing CTRL+S  and restart the Wamp server.

Now install Kali Linux in Vmware Workstation or Oracle Virtualbox (see how ). Set the network adapter to NAT. Now open command line in your host machine and check the IP address assigned to your host machine as shown below by typing command “ipconfig”. Since I am using Vmware Workstation my network adapter is Vmware network adapter vmnet8. The IP address assigned to my host machine is 192.168.64.1.

Now start your attacker machine( Kali Linux ), open browser and type the address 192.168.64.1 in the url bar and see if you can access the victim web application as shown below.

Your web application pentest lab is ready. Happy hacking.

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How to setup Vulnerawa in Wamp server

Good Evening friends.  Today we will see how to setup Vulnerawa in Wamp Server. For those newbies who don’t know what is Vulnerawa, it is a vulnerable web app coded by me to simulate a real website for practice. Read more about it here. First, download Wamp Server from here   as appropriate to your system requirements. We will use “WAMPSERVER (64 BITS & PHP 5.3.10) 2.2d″ for this howto. Install the Wamp Server. Open browser and type “localhost” in the URL bar to see if Wamp server is working as shown below.

We can see that there are no projects available. Now download Vulnerawa from here. You will find a zip file as shown below. Now we will extract the contents of this file into the root folder of Wamp server. Right click on the zip file, go to 7-zip as shown below ( or any other unzipping software )  and select “Extract files” option. Extract the files to the folder “C:\\wamp\www” which is the root folder for Wamp server.

Now lets check the root folder to see if the files are extracted. Go to wamp server’s root directory and you should see the folder named “vulnerawa1.0.2” as shown below.

Now open your browser and type “localhost” once again. Now we can see our projectVulnerawa1.0.2 listed in the Projects section as shown below.

Click on the project. If you see the below webpage, then you have successfully setup Vulnerawa. If it gives you some error go to the url and type “http://localhost/vulnerawa1.0.2” directly. Happy hacking practice.

Here’s a video version of this howto.

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Vulnerawa : Vulnerable web app for practice

Vulnerawa stands for “Vulnerable Web Application”. This vulnerable web application developed by me is still in its nascent stages. I have started developing “Vulnerawa” to simulate a real website, i.e practice website hacking on this application and you are ready for hacking real websites. It is available for download here, it has only SQL Injection vulnerabilities. (Go here to see how to setup Vulnerawa). Here’s a picture of Vulnerawa below.

This vulnerable web app  has two SQL injection vulnerabilities, url based and Login Bypass. As an example, let’s see login bypass using SQL injection. Click on link “Login”. You will be greeted with a login form. Enter single quote character(‘) as shown below in the picture below and click on “Submit”.

You will get an error as shown below, i.e the web app is vulnerable to SQL injection. This trick also works on real-time websites if they are vulnerable to SQL injection.

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