cURL Command-Line for Pentesting
Subtitle:
Learn to leverage cURL command-line tool for penetration testing and ethical
hacking tasks.
Target audience:
Penetration Testers, Ethical Hackers, Red Team Professionals, Vulnerability
Assessment Professionals, Exploitation Analysts, Blue Team Professionals,
Application Penetration Testers, API Penetration Testers, Information Security
Professionals.
Course Description
cURL (client URL) is a command line tool for URL transfer of data to and from a
server using various network protocols such as FTP, Gopher, SMTP, POP3, IMAP,
LDAP and HTTP. cURL can be useful for several penetration testing activities such
as website information gathering, web scraping, executing malicious scripts,
extracting HTTP Headers, malicious file uploads, data exfiltration, API exploitation
and more. cURL can help with executing attacks such as brute forcing, command
injection, SQL injection, XSS, File Manipulation vulnerabilities, Broken Object Level
Authorization exploitation, spoofing and manipulation attacks. Thus, it’s crucial for
penetration testers, ethical hackers, red team professionals as well as defensive
security professionals to be aware of how cURL can be used to exploit several
vulnerabilities in applications.
The course will begin with an introduction to cURL, while you’ll then gain a detailed
understanding of libcurl.
As you progress, you’ll explore the basics of cURL and libcurl. Here, the course will
demonstrate how to install and set up cURL, and you’ll learn about the various
protocols and commands as well as the command-line concepts used in cURL.
You’ll then learn how to perform scripting on cURL, how to display websites and files
on the command line using cURL, how to make HTTP requests with cURL, and how
to interact with APIs using cURL.
Next, you’ll learn about the role of cURL in penetration testing and cybersecurity,
while the course will then demonstrate how to set up a lab for penetration testing
with cURL.
As you continue your learning journey, you’ll learn how to perform information
gathering and gain access using cURL. This includes web scraping with cURL,
displaying website information, identifying HTTP headers, and brute forcing using
cURL.
Next, the course will delve into injection attacks with cURL. You’ll learn how to
perform command injection, SQL injection, and XSS exploitation using cURL.
Moving ahead, the course will demonstrate how to exploit file upload and
manipulation vulnerabilities using cURL. You’ll learn how to perform local file
inclusion and remote file inclusion with cURL, as well as exploiting file upload
vulnerabilities with cURL. The course will also cover executing malicious scripts with
cURL. You’ll observe how to inject payloads and shellcodes with cURL
Additionally, you’ll learn about API exploitation with cURL. The course will illustrate
how to exploit broken object level authorization and excessive data exposure flaws
using cURL.
Next, the course will cover manipulation attacks. You’ll learn how to perform HTTP
manipulation, text manipulation, URL manipulation, and user agent spoofing using
cURL.
As you near the conclusion, the course will demonstrate how to document your
penetration testing findings in a report. The course will also provide a cheat sheet for
penetration testing with cURL. The course will end with a short guide for the learners
on how they can further leverage what they learned in this course by pursuing EC-
Council’s Certified Penetration Testing Professional (C|PENT) certification.
By the end of this course, you’ll be able to perform penetration testing using cURL
command-line tool.
