Scanning with Skipfish
Skipfish (https://code.google.com/archive/p/skipfish/) was created by Google and released to the public in 2010; it is described by its creators as an active web application security reconnaissance tool, is included by default in Kali Linux, and it does more than pure reconnaissance. It is a complete vulnerability scanner. Some of its highlights are:
- High speed: It can reach more than 400 requests per second and claims to be able to reach more than 2000 in high speed LAN
- Its command-line options are straightforward and easy to use
- It can detect a wide range of issues, from directory listing and other information disclosure vulnerabilities to different types of SQL and XML injection
In this recipe, we will look at a simple example of how to use Skipfish and check its results.
How to do it...
Skipfish, as installed in Kali Linux, is ready to use. We will scan Peruggia with it:
- Open a Terminal and execute
skipfish -o skipfish_result -I peruggia http://192.168.56.11/peruggia...
