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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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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 05, 2025
Duration
50m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    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!

  2. Challenge

    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.

  3. Challenge

    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.

  4. Challenge

    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.

About the author

Lee Allen is a penetration tester by trade. Lee has authored four books about penetration testing and has created several Pluralsight courses.

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