Web Services/ API Penetration Testing Part - 1

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Hi Readers, today we will learn about another interesting part of Penetration Testing, this revolves around Security assessments of web services.

To start with let’s take a look at what web services are made of:

A web service is software composed of standardized XML messaging system.

The benefit of web services are since all of its communication is in XML, they are not restricted to any  operating system or programming languages

They are built on Web services are built on top of open standards such as TCP/IP, HTTP, Java, HTML, and XML.

Anatomy of Web Services

In simple language, any basic web services platform is a combination of XML and HTTP.
They can be of:
  • ·         SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)
  • ·         UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)
  • ·         WSDL (Web Services Description Language)


How does a Web Service Work

Web services depends on
•             XML to tag the data ( as markup and syntax)
•             SOAP to transfer a message
•             WSDL to describe the availability of service.



Penetration Testing on Web Services:

To begin penetration testing WebServices, we always require the following as preliminary:
1)            Sample API file ( WSDL/ SOAP etc)
2)            Sample request/ response ( to understand the values and data passing)
3)            Entry points/ URLs

Tools for performing web services penetration testing:
  • ·         Fiddler
  • ·         Burp Suite
  • ·         Acunetix/IBM Security AppScan
  • ·         ZAP Proxy
  •          Curl
  •           SOAP UI

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