Dynamic Reviewer

With Dynamic Reviewer Safe-PenTest module, you can inspect your Web Application during running, directly using your Browser, in non-invasive way.

DAST-Penetration Testing made easy

The following installation options are available:

  • Web App. You can install it at your premises, installable in any host OS supporting Docker.

  • Cloud App. Like a local installed app, it provides various Usage Modes and Connection Modes.

Its special Safe-PenTest feature, allowing to explore vulnerabilities in your Web Applications, at the same time to keeping them securely. No need of Backups before PenTest, we guarantee our tool will keep your system and database integrity. 

You can import third-party results from Security Scanners, Host Scanners and Proof-of-Exploits tools. Their results will be correlated automatically and a unified Enterprise Report is generated.

Dynamic Reviewer DAST provides a robust and stable framework for Web Application Security Testing, suitable for all Security Analysts, QA and Developers with False Positives and False Negatives support, offering an easy-to-use Web GUI, Advanced Scan and Enterprise Reporting capabilities.

Usage Modes

Dynamic Reviewer Provides two usage modes:

  • Black Box mode. It is placed in the role of the average hacker, with no internal knowledge of the target system. Testers using Dynamic Reviewer are not provided with any architecture diagrams or source code that is not publicly available. Dynamic Reviewer determines the vulnerabilities in a system that are exploitable from outside the network.
    This means that Black-Box penetration testing relies on dynamic analysis of currently running programs and systems within the target network.
    Dynamic Reviewer follows the OWASP Web Security Testing Guide, chapter 4. Web Application Security Testing.
    Further, Dynamic Reviewer analyzes in deep the client-side code (Ajax, DOM, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.) discovering the largest number of client-side vulnerabilities in the market.

  • White Box mode. It performs Authentication before starting the scan. It provides the following Login modes:

    • Form-Based Authentication: login with User and Password as Web form, You can configure more than one user, they will be tested all.

    • JSON-Based Authentication: submit a JSON object with credentials

    • Tokern-Based Authentication: You can modify the request headers for inserting tokens

    • Script-Based Authentication: upload and execute a custom script used to login

Connection Modes

Both on premises and Cloud installations can connect to the target Web Application in different modes:

  • Direct. Dynamic Reviewer will reach the target Web Application using a Direct connection to Internet

  • Through Proxy. For reaching the target Web Application you need a proxy. You can configure the Proxy URI, Proxy TCP Port, Proxy User and Proxy Password

  • SSH Tunnelling. A temporary SSH key will be automatically generated for the current Scan. The User can download it and execute the commands shown in the screen. It will create a SSH Tunnel to reach the target Web Application.

Findings

Once Scan is terminated, you have a list of Findings. You can:

  • Suppress a Finding Category (example: all Blind SQL Injection issues)

  • Suppress one or more Findings inside a Category

  • Add Comments to the entire scan, to a Finding Category, to a single Finding

  • Modify, Delete, change Severity tag, Merge Findings

  • Import Results from third-party tools

  • Export Combined Results in PDF, HTML, JSON, CSV, Excel and Word format

  • Add Evidences to the Findings

Powered By

Dynamic Reviewer is Powered By the following open source tools:

All vulnerabilities resulting from the above OSS tools, will be collected and correlated and included in the Dynamic Reviewer results.

Security Scanners

Further the above listed tools, Dynamic Reviewer provides its own Security Scan Engine, but you can also add results coming from third-party Security Scanners in order to cover possible False Negatives.

We currently support a number of 3rd-party Security Scanners.

Each Security Scanner makes different fields available.

In order to be able to combine output from multiple tools, our Plugin Manager lets you map between the fields provided by each Security Scanner and those you care about for your report.

It is up to you to purchase and manage the required Security Scanner’s License in case of you are using a Commercial Product.

Our tool imports the results only, without running your Security Scanner.

Team Collaboration

Being powered by Team Reviewer, with Dynamic Reviewer you can:

  • Share a common view of the entire project so that the team can work together towards a common goal

  • Each person can work on a different project or as part of a team. Changes made by any member of the team are automatically pushed to all the others

  • Compare different versions of the Issues in your project. Use the line-by-line breakdown to quickly see what was changed

Our Own Security Scan Engine

Main features:

  • Technology Discovery

  • Port scanning, Services Discovery (no need of nmap or nessus)

  • Audit, Bruteforce, Evasion, grep ancd Mangle modes

  • Cookie-jar/cookie-string support.

  • Custom header support.

  • SSL support with fine-grained options.

  • User Agent spoofing.

  • HTTP/2 support.

  • Proxy support for SOCKS4, SOCKS4A, SOCKS5, HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0.

  • Proxy authentication.

  • Site authentication (SSL-based, form-based, Cookie-Jar, Basic-Digest, NTLMv1, Kerberos and others).

  • Automatic log-out detection and re-login during the scan (when the initial login was performed via theautologin,login_scriptorproxyplugins).

  • Custom 404 page detection.

  • UI abstraction:

    • Command-line Interface.

    • Web User Interface.

  • Pause/resume functionality.

  • Hibernation support -- Suspend to and restore from disk.

  • High performance asynchronous HTTP requests.

    • With adjustable concurrency.

    • With the ability to auto-detect server health and adjust its concurrency automatically.

  • Support for custom default input values, using pairs of patterns (to be matched against input names) and values to be used to fill in matching inputs.

Discovery Mode

Through Passive Fingerprinting it provides discovery of: Host OS, Web Server, Application Server, DB type, CMS, Directory bruteforce, DNS WildCard, domain_dot, .NET Errors, Favicon identification, Backdoors, Captchas, DVCS, GIt/Svn files, Fingerprint BING, Fingerprint Google, Fingerprint PKS, Fingerprint WAF, GHDB, Google Spider, Halberd, HMAP, HTTPS over HTTP, Import Results, Oracle discovery, Phish Tank, phpeggs, phpinfo, pykto, RIA Enumerator, robots.txt reader, Server Header, Server Status, Shared Hosting, SiteMap Reader, Splash, spiderMan, URL Fuzzer, urllist.txt Reader, userDir, webDiff, webSpider, wordNet, Wordpress Fingerprint, Laravel Vulnerabilities, WDSL Finder, XSSedDotCom, Yahoo Site Explorer, zone_h.

Audit mode

Audit of LDAP, Blind SQL Injection. Buffer Overflow, webDAV, eval, file Upload, format String vulnerability, legacy FrontPage web apps, Global Redirect, HTA Access Methods, Local File Include, mx Injection, OS Command Injection, Phishing attack vector, preg_replace, re-DoS, Remote File Include, Respnse Splitting, SQL Injection, Server-Side Injection, Weak SSL Certificate, Unsecure Connection, Xpath Injection, XSRF, Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), XST.

Bruteforce Mode

Usage of Bruteforce for: Basic Authentication and Web Form Authentication.

Evasion Mode

Seeking for: backSpace Between Dots, full Width Encode, modsecurity, reversed Slashes, rndCase, rndHexEncode, rndParam, rndPath, sel Reference, shift out-shift in Between Dots.

Grep Mode

Find: Ajax, blank Body, Code Disclosure, Collect Cookies, Credit Cards, Directory Indexing, DOM XSS, .NET Event Validation, Error 500, Error Pages, Feeds, File Upload, Comments, Form Autocomplete, e-mails. Hashes, HTTP Auth detect, HTTP in Body, language, Meta Tags, motw, Objects, Oracle, Password Profiling, Path Disclosure, Private IPs, SSN, Strage HTTP Code, Strange Headers, Strange Reason, SVN Users, User-defined Regex, WDSL Grepper.

Mangle Mode

Usage of Stream Editor (sed) for pattern matching: Privilege Escalation, Exploiting sudo/administrator rights, DirtyPipe (CVE 2022-0847), Windows Privilege Escalation: PrintNightmare.

Client-Side scanning

Dynamic Reviewer includes an integrated, real browser environment in order to provide sufficient coverage to modern web applications which make use of technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript, DOM manipulation, AJAX, etc.

In essence, this turns Dynamic Reviewer into a DOM and JavaScript debugger, allowing it to monitor DOM events and JavaScript data and execution flows. As a result, not only can the system trigger and identify DOM-based issues, but it will accompany them with a great deal of information regarding the state of the page at the time.

Relevant information include:

  • Page DOM, as HTML code.

    • With a list of DOM transitions required to restore the state of the page to the one at the time it was logged.

  • Original DOM (i.e. prior to the action that caused the page to be logged), as HTML code.

    • With a list of DOM transitions.

  • Data-flow sinks -- Each sink is a JS method which received a tainted argument.

    • Parent object of the method (ex.:DOMWindow).

    • Method signature (ex.:decodeURIComponent()).

    • Arguments list.

      • With the identified taint located recursively in the included objects.

    • Method source code.

    • JS stacktrace.

  • Execution flow sinks -- Each sink is a successfully executed JS payload, as injected by the security checks.

    • Includes a JS stacktrace.

  • JavaScript stack-traces include:

    • Method names.

    • Method locations.

    • Method source codes.

    • Argument lists.

  • Compatible with ES5 and ES6

  • Integrated with Wapplyzer

  • A bunch of frameworks are supported, like Cordova/Phonegap and Node.js

In essence, you have access to roughly the same information that your favorite debugger (for example, FireBug) would provide, as if you had set a breakpoint to take place at the right time for identifying an issue.

DOM Security Issues

The list of DOM Security Issues found by Dynamic Reviewer are:

#

Issue

Type

Category

1

Code Injection - Client Side

Error

Code Execution

2

Code Injection - PHP input wrapper

Error

Code Execution

3

Code injection - Timing

Error

Code Execution

4

File Inclusion - Client Side

Error

Code Execution

5

OS Command Injection - Client Side

Error

Code Execution

6

OS Command Injection - Timing

Error

Code Execution

7

Remote File Inclusion Client Side

Error

Code Execution

8

Session Fixation

Error

Code Execution

9

XSS - DOM

Error

Code Execution

10

XSS - DOM - Script Context

Error

Code Execution

11

XSS - Event

Error

Code Execution

12

Data from attacker controllable navigation based DOM properties is executed as HTML

Error

Code Execution

13

Data from attacker controllable navigation based DOM properties is executed as JavaScript

Error

Code Execution

14

Data from attacker controllable URL based DOM properties is executed as HTML

Error

Code Execution

15

Data from attacker controllable URL based DOM properties is executed as JavaScript

Error

Code Execution

16

Non-HTML format Data from DOM storage is executed as HTML

Warning

Code Execution

17

Non-JavaScript format Data from DOM storage is executed as JavaScript

Warning

Code Execution

18

HTML format Data from DOM storage is executed as HTML

Info

Code Execution

19

JavaScript format Data from DOM storage is executed as JavaScript

Info

Code Execution

20

Data from user input is executed as HTML

Warning

Code Execution

21

Data from user input is executed as JavaScript

Warning

Code Execution

22

Non-HTML format Data taken from external site(s) (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as HTML

Error

Code Execution

23

Non-JavaScript format Data taken from external site(s) (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as JavaScript

Error

Code Execution

24

HTML format Data taken from external site(s) (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as HTML

Warning

Code Execution

25

JavaScript format Data taken from external site(s) (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as JavaScript

Warning

Code Execution

26

Non-HTML format Data taken from across sub-domain (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as HTML

Warning

Code Execution

27

Non-JavaScript format Data taken from across sub-domain (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as JavaScript

Warning

Code Execution

28

HTML format Data taken from across sub-domain (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as HTML

Info

Code Execution

29

JavaScript format Data taken from across sub-domain (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as JavaScript

Info

Code Execution

30

Non-HTML format Data taken from same domain (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as HTML

Warning

Code Execution

31

Non-JavaScript format Data taken from same domain (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as JavaScript

Warning

Code Execution

32

HTML format Data taken from same domain (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as HTML

Info

Code Execution

33

JavaScript format Data taken from same domain (via Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages) is executed as JavaScript

Info

Code Execution

34

Weak Hashing algorithms are used

Error

Cryptography

35

Weak Encryption algorithms are used

Error

Cryptography

36

Weak Decryption algorithms are used

Error

Cryptography

37

Cryptographic Hashing Operations were made

Info

Cryptography

38

Encryption operations were made

Info

Cryptography

39

Decryption operations were made

Info

Cryptography

40

Potentially Sensitive Data is leaked (via HTTP, Ajax, WebSocket or Cross-Window Messages)

Error

Data Leakage

41

Potentially Sensitive Data is leaked through Referrer Headers

Error

Data Leakage

42

Data is leaked through HTTP

Warning

Data Leakage

43

Data is leaked through WebSocket

Warning

Data Leakage

44

Data is leaked through Cross-Window Messages

Warning

Data Leakage

45

Data is leaked through Referrer Headers

Warning

Data Leakage

46

Potentially Sensitive Data is stored on Client-side Storage (in LocalStorage, SessionStorage, Cookies or IndexedDB)

Warning

Data Storage

47

Data is stored on Client-side Storage (in LocalStorage, SessionStorage, Cookies or IndexedDB)

Info

Data Storage

48

Cross-window Messages are sent insecurely

Error

Communication

49

Cross-site communications are made

Warning

Communication

50

Communications across sub-domains are made

Warning

Communication

51

Same Origin communications are made

Info

Communication

52

JavaScript code is loaded from Cross-site Sources

Warning

JS Code

53

JavaScript code is loaded from across sub-domains

Info

JS Code

54

JavaScript code is loaded from Same Origin

Info

JS Code

Configuration options include:

  • Adjustable pool-size, i.e. the amount of browser workers to utilize.

  • Timeout for each job.

  • Worker TTL counted in jobs -- Workers which exceed the TTL have their browser process re-spawned.

  • Ability to disable loading images.

  • Adjustable screen width and height.

    • Can be used to analyze responsive and mobile applications.

  • Ability to wait until certain elements appear in the page.

  • Configurable local storage data.

Coverage

Web Security Issues

Dynamic Reviewer runs testing to identify all of the major web application security vulnerabilities, such as SQL Injection, Cross-Site Scripting, Cross Site Request Forgery, and more. Dynamic Reviewer has an ever growing list of tests that are run against the application and APIs to identify potential security vulnerabilities.

Dynamic Reviewer provides the following HTTP passive and active scan rules which find specific vulnerabilities. Dynamic Reviewer can discover the following OWASP ZAP Web Security Issues:

Id

Ossue

Risk

Type

Id

Ossue

Risk

Type

0

Directory Browsing

Medium

Active

2

Private IP Disclosure

Low

Passive

3

Session ID in URL Rewrite

Medium

Passive

6

Path Traversal

High

Active

7

Remote File Inclusion

High

Active

41

Source Code Disclosure - Git

High

Active

42

Source Code Disclosure - SVN

Medium

Active

43

Source Code Disclosure - File Inclusion

High

Active

10003

Vulnerable JS Library (Powered by Retire.js)

High

Passive

10009

In Page Banner Information Leak

High

Passive

10010

Cookie No HttpOnly Flag

Low

Passive

10011

Cookie Without Secure Flag

Low

Passive

10015

Re-examine Cache-control Directives

Informational

Passive

10016

Web Browser XSS Protection Not Enabled

High

Passive

10017

Cross-Domain JavaScript Source File Inclusion

Low

Passive

10019

Content-Type Header Missing

Informational

Passive

10020

Anti-clickjacking Header

High

Passive

10020-1

Missing Anti-clickjacking Header

Medium

Passive

10020-2

Multiple X-Frame-Options Header Entries

Medium

Passive

10020-3

X-Frame-Options Defined via META (Non-compliant with Spec)

Medium

Passive

10020-4

X-Frame-Options Setting Malformed

Medium

Passive

10021

X-Content-Type-Options Header Missing

Low

Passive

10023

Information Disclosure - Debug Error Messages

Low

Passive

10024

Information Disclosure - Sensitive Information in URL

Informational

Passive

10025

Information Disclosure - Sensitive Information in HTTP Referrer Header

Informational

Passive

10026

HTTP Parameter Override

High

Passive

10027

Information Disclosure - Suspicious Comments

Informational

Passive

10028

Open Redirect

Medium

Passive

10029

Cookie Poisoning

Medium

Passive

10030

User Controllable Charset

Medium

Passive

10031

User Controllable HTML Element Attribute (Potential XSS)

Medium

Passive

10032

Viewstate

Medium

Passive

10032-1

Potential IP Addresses Found in the Viewstate

Medium

Passive

10032-2

Emails Found in the Viewstate

Medium

Passive

10032-3

Old Asp.Net Version in Use

Low

Passive

10032-4

Viewstate without MAC Signature (Unsure)

High

Passive

10032-5

Viewstate without MAC Signature (Sure)

High

Passive

10032-6

Split Viewstate in Use

Informational

Passive

10033

Directory Browsing

High

Passive

10034

Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability (Indicative)

High

Passive

10035

Strict-Transport-Security Header

High

Passive

10036

HTTP Server Response Header

High

Passive

10037

Server Leaks Information via 'X-Powered-By' HTTP Response Header Field(s)

Low

Passive

10038

Content Security Policy (CSP) Header Not Set

High

Passive

10039

X-Backend-Server Header Information Leak

High

Passive

10040

Secure Pages Include Mixed Content

High

Passive

10041

HTTP to HTTPS Insecure Transition in Form Post

High

Passive

10042

HTTPS to HTTP Insecure Transition in Form Post

High

Passive

10043

User Controllable JavaScript Event (XSS)

High

Passive

10044

Big Redirect Detected (Potential Sensitive Information Leak)

High

Passive

10045

Source Code Disclosure - /WEB-INF folder

High

Active

10046

Insecure Component

Medium

Passive

10047

HTTPS Content Available via HTTP

Low

Active

10048

Remote Code Execution - Shell Shock

High

Active

10049

Content Cacheability

Medium

Passive

10050

Retrieved from Cache

Medium

Passive

10051

Relative Path Confusion

Medium

Active

10052

X-ChromeLogger-Data (XCOLD) Header Information Leak

Medium

Passive

10053

Apache Range Header DoS (CVE-2011-3192)

Medium

Active

10054

Cookie without SameSite Attribute

Low

Passive

10055

CSP

Medium

Passive

10056

X-Debug-Token Information Leak

Low

Passive

10057

Username Hash Found

Informational

Passive

10058

GET for POST

Informational

Active

10061

X-AspNet-Version Response Header

Low

Passive

10062

PII Disclosure

Medium

Passive

10063

Permissions Policy Header Not Set

Medium

Passive

10070

Use of SAML

Medium

Passive

10094

Base64 Disclosure

Medium

Passive

10095

Backup File Disclosure

Medium

Active

10096

Timestamp Disclosure

Low

Passive

10097

Hash Disclosure

Medium

Passive

10098

Cross-Domain Misconfiguration

Medium

Passive

10099

Source Code Disclosure

High

Passive

10103

Image Exposes Location or Privacy Data

Informational

Passive

10104

User Agent Fuzzer

Informational

Active

10105

Weak Authentication Method

High

Passive

10106

HTTP Only Site

Medium

Active

10107

Httpoxy - Proxy Header Misuse

High

Active

10108

Reverse Tabnabbing

Medium

Passive

10109

Modern Web Application

Medium

Passive

10110

Dangerous JS Functions

Medium

Passive

10202

Absence of Anti-CSRF Tokens

Medium

Passive

20012

Anti-CSRF Tokens Check

Medium

Active

20014

HTTP Parameter Pollution

Informational

Active

20015

Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability

High

Active

20016

Cross-Domain Misconfiguration

High

Active

20017

Source Code Disclosure - CVE-2012-1823

High

Active

20018

Remote Code Execution - CVE-2012-1823

High

Active

20019

External Redirect

High

Active

30001

Buffer Overflow

Medium

Active

30002

Format String Error

Medium

Active

30003

Integer Overflow Error

Medium

Active

40003

CRLF Injection

Medium

Active

40008

Parameter Tampering

Medium

Active

40009

Server Side Include

High

Active

40012

Cross Site Scripting (Reflected)

High

Active

40013

Session Fixation

High

Active

40014

Cross Site Scripting (Persistent)

High

Active

40015

LDAP Injection

High

Active

40016

Cross Site Scripting (Persistent) - Prime

Informational

Active

40017

Cross Site Scripting (Persistent) - Spider

Informational

Active

40018

SQL Injection

High

Active

40019

SQL Injection - MySQL

High

Active

40020

SQL Injection - Hypersonic SQL

High

Active

40021

SQL Injection - Oracle

High

Active

40022

SQL Injection - PostgreSQL

High

Active

40023

Possible Username Enumeration

Informational

Active

40024

SQL Injection - SQLite

High

Active

40025

Proxy Disclosure

Medium

Active

40026

Cross Site Scripting (DOM Based)

High

Active

40027

SQL Injection - MsSQL

High

Active

40028

ELMAH Information Leak

Medium

Active

40029

Trace.axd Information Leak

Medium

Active

40031

Out of Band XSS

High

Active

40032

.htaccess Information Leak

Medium

Active

40033

NoSQL Injection - MongoDB

High

Active

40034

.env Information Leak

Medium

Active

40035

Hidden File Finder

Medium

Active

40036

JWT Scan Rule

Medium

Active

40038

Bypassing 403

Medium

Active

40039

Web Cache Deception

Medium

Active

40040

CORS Header

Informational

Active

40040-1

CORS Header

Informational

Active

40040-2

CORS Misconfiguration

Medium

Active

40040-3

CORS Misconfiguration

High

Active

40041

File Upload

Medium

Active

40042

Spring Actuator Information Leak

Medium

Active

40043

Log4Shell

High

Active

40043-1

Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228)

High

Active

40043-2

Log4Shell (CVE-2021-45046)

High

Active

40044

Exponential Entity Expansion (Billion Laughs Attack)

Medium

Active

40045

Spring4Shell

High

Active

90001

Insecure JSF ViewState

Medium

Passive

90002

Java Serialization Object

Medium

Passive

90003

Sub Resource Integrity Attribute Missing

High

Passive

90004

Insufficient Site Isolation Against Spectre Vulnerability

High

Passive

90004-1

Insufficient Site Isolation Against Spectre Vulnerability

Low

Passive

90004-2

Insufficient Site Isolation Against Spectre Vulnerability

Low

Passive

90004-3

Insufficient Site Isolation Against Spectre Vulnerability

Low

Passive

90011

Charset Mismatch

Informational

Passive

90017

XSLT Injection

Medium

Active

90018

Advanced SQL Injection

High

Active

90019

Server Side Code Injection

High

Active

90020

Remote OS Command Injection

High

Active

90021

XPath Injection

High

Active

90022

Application Error Disclosure

Medium

Passive

90023

XML External Entity Attack

High

Active

90024

Generic Padding Oracle

High

Active

90025

Expression Language Injection

High

Active

90026

SOAP Action Spoofing

High

Active

90027

Cookie Slack Detector

Informational

Active

90028

Insecure HTTP Method

Medium

Active

90029

SOAP XML Injection

High

Active

90030

WSDL File Detection

Informational

Passive

90033

Loosely Scoped Cookie

Informational

Passive

90034

Cloud Metadata Potentially Exposed

High

Active

90035

Server Side Template Injection

High

Active

90036

Server Side Template Injection (Blind)

High

Active

110001

Application Error Disclosure via WebSockets

Medium

WebSocket Passive

110002

Base64 Disclosure in WebSocket message

Informational

WebSocket Passive

110003

Information Disclosure - Debug Error Messages via WebSocket

Low

WebSocket Passive

110004

Email address found in WebSocket message

Informational

WebSocket Passive

110005

Personally Identifiable Information via WebSocket

High

WebSocket Passive

110006

Private IP Disclosure via WebSocket

Low

WebSocket Passive

110007

Username Hash Found in WebSocket message

Informational

WebSocket Passive

110008

Information Disclosure - Suspicious Comments in XML via WebSocket

Informational

WebSocket Passive

Note that these are examples of the alerts raised - many rules include different details depending on the exact problem encountered. For example, it covers also: Text4Shell (CVE-2022-42889), Insufficient Site Isolation Against Spectre Vulnerability

Passive scans

Thay review all HTTP requests and responses from the application, looking for indicators of security vulnerabilities. These scans do not change anything about the requests.

Passive Fingerprinting

Whenever Dynamic Reviewer obtains a fingerprint from the observed traffic, passing through any firewall, it identifies the Operating System and obtain some ancillary data needed for other analysis tasks.

For TCP/IP, the tool fingerprints the client-originating SYN packet and the first SYN+ACK response from the server, paying attention to factors such as the ordering of TCP options, the relation between maximum segment size and window size, the progression of TCP timestamps, and the state of about a dozen possible implementation quirks (e.g. non-zero values in "must be zero" fields). The metrics used for application-level traffic vary from one module to another; where possible, the tool relies on signals such as the ordering or syntax of HTTP headers or SMTP commands, rather than any declarative statements such as User-Agent. Application-level fingerprinting modules currently support HTTP, SMTP, FTP, POP3, IMAP, SSH, and SSL/TLS. Some of its capabilities include:

- Highly scalable and extremely fast identification of the operating system and software on both endpoints of a vanilla TCP connection - especially in settings where NMap probes are blocked, too slow, unreliable, or would simply set off alarms,

- Measurement of system uptime and network hookup, distance (including topology behind NAT or packet filters), and so on.

- Automated detection of connection sharing / NAT, load balancing, and application-level proxying setups.

- Detection of dishonest clients / servers that forge declarative statements such as X-Mailer or User-Agent.

Active scans

On the other hand, they will create and modify requests being sent to the application, sending test requests that will surface vulnerabilities that would not be caught in a passive scan.

Active scans are definitely a better way to test for vulnerabilities in your application, as the test suite injects requests that will surface vulnerabilities. These scans are, however, actively attempting to attack the application, which may include creating or deleting data.

Fuzzing

Fuzzing is a technique of submitting lots of invalid or unexpected data to a target.

Dynamic Reviewer allows you to fuzz any request still using:

  • A built-in set of Payloads. Payload Generators generate the raw attacks that the fuzzer submits to the target application

  • Payload Processors are used to automatically change specific payloads before they are submitted

  • Fuzz Location Processors are used to automatically change all of the payloads before they are submitted

  • Custom scripts can be uploaded

HOST SCANNING

Dynamic Reviewer is integrated with the following third-party Host Scanning tools:

The Dynamic Reviewer and thrid-party tool results will be automatically correlated for obtaining a unique results and a unified report.

PROOF-OF-EXPLOITS

Dynamic Reviewer is a DAST tool, it can detect all vulnerabilities of your site and list all possible Exploits. It won’t execute those Exploits.

If you need a full Penetration Test that includes the Exploits, you need more than one tool.

The Penetration Testing process requires an extensive set of tools. These include network (Host Scanning) and vulnerability scanning software, as well as tools that can launch specific attacks and exploits such as brute-force attacks or SQL injections, a custom reporting and a unified dashboard.

The final and most important stage of a Penetration Test is the Enterprise Report. This is a detailed report to be shared with the target company’s security team. It documents the pentesting process, vulnerabilities discovered (including the ones at client-side), proof that they are exploitable, and actionable recommendations for remediating them.

Internal teams can then use this information to improve security measures and remediate vulnerabilities. This can include patching vulnerable systems. These upgrades include rate limiting, new firewall or WAF rules, DDoS mitigation, and stricter form validation.

Dynamic Reviewer is fully integrated with Invicti Acunetix and PenTera ASV for generating proof-of-exploits and a unified Enterprise Report, multi-lingual and fully customizable for the customer’s needs, and provides a unified dashboard, based on OWASP defectDojo.

REST API

  • Very simple and straightforward API.

  • Easy interoperability with non-Ruby systems.

    • Operates over HTTP.

    • Uses JSON to format messages.

ENTERPRISE REPORTING

Dynamic Reviewer provides:

  • Detailed Report. A standard DAST automatically-generated technical report in PDF, Word, Excel and HTML formats, listing all detailed information necessary for Indentifying and Remediate the vulnerabilities. Fully customizable ISO 9001-compliant Cover Pages, can be saved as different Profiles

You can upload two logos, and define the ISO 9001 responsability chain (Created By, Verified By, Approved By. You can add a Disclaimer Note, a ISO template code, the Confidentiality Level and a Document version.

  • Enterprise Report. Fully-customized automatically-generated Executive Summary and Technical reports, starting from a customer-driven Form Template (on which customized tags will be filled), Word template, written in the preferred language (Report template in Word format, containg the custom tags).

Best Performances

Scan-times using traditional tools can range between a few hours to a couple of weeks – maybe even more. This means that wasted time can easily pile up, even when we’re talking about mere milliseconds per request/response.

Dynamic Reviewer benefits from great network performance due to its asynchronous HTTP request/response model. In this case – and from a high-level perspective –, asynchronous I/O means that you can schedule operations in such a way that they appear like they’re happening at the same time, which in turn means higher efficiency and better bandwidth utilization. That means:

  • Faster hyperlink processing

  • Faster numbering processing

  • Faster screenshot processing

It provides a high-performance environment for the tests that need to be executed while making adding new tests very easy. Thus, you can rest assured that the scan will be as fast as possible and performance will only be limited by your or the audited server’s physical resources.

Avoiding useless technical details, the gist is the following:

  • Every type of resource usage has been massively reduced — CPU, RAM, bandwidth.

  • CPU intensive code has been rewritten and key parts of the system are now 2 to 55 times faster, depending on where you look.

  • The scheduling of all scan operations has been completely redesigned.

  • DOM operations have been massively optimized and require much less time and overall resources.

  • Suspension to disk is now near instant.

    • Previously browser jobs could not be dumped to disk and had to be completed, which could cause large delays depending on the amount of queued jobs.

  • Default configuration is much less aggressive, further reducing the amount of resource usage and web application stress.

Talk is cheap though, so let’s look as some numbers under Linux:

 

Duration

RAM

HTTP requests

HTTP requests/second

Browser jobs

Seconds per browser job

Dynamic Reviewer

00:02:14

150MB

14,504

113.756

211

1.784

Best Competitor

00:06:33

210MB

34,109

101.851

524

3.88

Large real production site (cannot disclose)

Large real production site (cannot disclose)

 

Duration

RAM

HTTP requests

HTTP requests/second

Browser jobs

Seconds per browser job

Dynamic Reviewer

00:45:31

617MB

60,024

47.415

9404

2.354

Best Competitor

12:27:12

1,621MB

123,399

59.516

9180

48.337

As you can see, the impact of the Performances' improvements becomes more substantial as the target’s complexity and size increases, especially when it comes to scan duration and RAM usage — and for the production site the new engine consistently yielded better coverage, which is why it performed more browser jobs.

End result:

  • Runs fast on under-powered machines.

  • You can run many more scans at the same time.

  • You can complete scans many times faster than before.

  • If you’re running scans in the “cloud”, it means that it’ll cost you many, many times less than before.

Machine Learning

The ML is what enables Dynamic Reviewer to learn from the scan it performs and incorporate that knowledge, on the fly, for the duration of the audit.

It uses various techniques to compensate for the widely heterogeneous environment of web applications. This includes a combination of widely deployed techniques (taint-analysis, fuzzing, differential analysis, timing/delay attacks) along with novel technologies (rDiff analysis, modular meta-analysis) developed specifically for the framework.

This allows the system to make highly informed decisions using a variety of different inputs; a process which diminishes false positives and even uses them to provide human-like insights into the inner workings of web applications.

Dynamic Reviewer is aware of which requests are more likely to uncover new elements or attack vectors and adapts itself accordingly.

Also, components have the ability to individually force the Core Engine to learn from the HTTP responses they are going to induce thus improving the chance of uncovering a hidden vector that would appear as a result of their probing.

DISCLAIMER: Due we make use of open source components (OWASP ZAP, w3af, pWeb, p0f, wXf, OSVDB), we do not sell the product, but we offer a yearly subscription-based Commercial Support, plus our Commercial Security Scanner. 













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