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Web Attacks: Brute Force with Burp Suite
In this lab, you'll gain hands-on experience using Burp Suite Community Edition to perform brute force attacks against a web application. By the end of this lab, you'll have a solid foundation in setting up and executing a brute force attack with Burp Suite.

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Getting Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Understanding Brute Force and Setting up Burp Suite
In this challenge, you configure Burp Suite on the Windows-based system that shares a subnet with the server hosting the unwelcome website created by the Dark Kittens.
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Capturing Traffic and Launching the Brute Force Attack
Use Burp Suite to capture web traffic, execute brute force attacks, intercept POST requests, configure Intruder, and analyze the attack results.
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The Last Challenge
Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.
What's a lab?
Hands-on Labs are real environments created by industry experts to help you learn. These environments help you gain knowledge and experience, practice without compromising your system, test without risk, destroy without fear, and let you learn from your mistakes. Hands-on Labs: practice your skills before delivering in the real world.
Provided environment for hands-on practice
We will provide the credentials and environment necessary for you to practice right within your browser.
Guided walkthrough
Follow along with the author’s guided walkthrough and build something new in your provided environment!
Did you know?
On average, you retain 75% more of your learning if you get time for practice.