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w3af Fifth BETA for Download – Automated Web Auditing and Exploitation Framework

January 16, 2008

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As you all seem to pretty interested in Inguma, there’s something else similar called w3af – the fifth BETA was released a while back and the team are now working on the sixth.

w3af is a Web application attack and Audit Framework. The project goal is to create a framework to find and exploit web application vulnerabilities that is easy to use and

We did mention when it was first released – w3af – Web Application Attack and Audit Framework.

There are a lot of small changes, but the basic and bigger ones are:

  • Virtual daemon, a way to use Metasploit framework payloads/shellcodes while exploiting web applications.
  • w3afAgent, a reverse VPN that allows you to route packets through the compromised server
  • Good samaritan, a module that allows you to exploit blind sql injections much faster
  • 20+ new plugins
  • A lot of bug fixes
  • A much more stable core.

A full plugin list is here:

w3af – Plugins

The users guide can be found here:

w3afUsersGuide.pdf

The author has also uploaded the presentation material he made for the T2 conference in Finland – this can serve as a good introduction.

w3af-T2.pdf

You can download w3af here:

w3af BETA5

Or read more here.

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Filed Under: Database Hacking, Hacking Tools, Web Hacking Tagged With: auditing-framework, hacking-web-application, hacking-web-sites, Python, sql-injection, w3af, web-applicaton-security, web-auditing



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  1. goodpeople says

    January 16, 2008 at 12:11 pm

    There’s no download link!

  2. leyou says

    January 16, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=170274

  3. Darknet says

    January 16, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    Oops my bad, thanks leyou – I’ve added the download link in.

  4. Daniel says

    January 16, 2008 at 7:12 pm

    I wish they’d sort out the annoying tidy issue:

    [daniel@touchme ~]$ w3af
    You have to install utidy lib.
    Error: No module named tidy

    even when utidy is installed and working

  5. goodpeople says

    January 17, 2008 at 12:55 am

    When unpacking, my virusscanner trips over PHISH/Paypalfraud.T

  6. eM3rC says

    February 7, 2008 at 5:36 am

    Never seem a program that just focuses on this. Thanks for the post Darknet.

    I have a quick question, by web vulnerability tool do you mean programs that operate within a webpage or actual exploits for the webpage you are viewing (or something else I am completely missing)?

  7. fuzion says

    July 30, 2008 at 8:32 pm

    I wrote a script to update w3af and install the new prerequisites to use its new gtkUI:
    http://fuzion.rootmybox.org/2008/07/30/w3af-on-backtrack-3-final-svn-style/

  8. Rashid says

    August 16, 2008 at 12:07 pm

    I have downloaded this script and installed all reqired packages but i m unable to find out utidy package on the net. Please tell me from where to get this package for fedora 8.

  9. fuzion says

    August 27, 2008 at 12:28 am

    @Rashid
    Get w3af via SVN and report any bugs you find.

    svn co https://w3af.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/w3af/trunk w3af

    More info:
    http://nukeit.org/category/tools/

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