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The Samurai Web Testing Framework (WTF) is an open-source LiveCD based on Ubuntu and focused on web application security testing. It includes an extensive collection of pre-installed and pre-configured top penetration testing and security analysis tools, becoming the perfect environment for assessing and exploiting web applications. The tools categorization guides the analyst through the web-app penetration testing methodology, from reconnaissance, to mapping, discovery and exploitation. The project web page is http://sf.net/projects/samurai/.
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Siles, R. (2010). Assessing and Exploiting Web Applications with the Open-Source Samurai Web Testing Framework. In: Serrão, C., Aguilera Díaz, V., Cerullo, F. (eds) Web Application Security. IBWAS 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16120-9_7
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