📘 Step-by-Step Hacking Guides

Welcome to the practical side of cybersecurity. These guides walk you through real-world techniques, labs, and bug bounty methodologies from reconnaissance to exploitation — all legally and ethically.

🕵️ Reconnaissance

• Passive Recon using Amass, crt.sh, and Google Dorking
• Subdomain Enumeration (Tools: Assetfinder, Subfinder, dnsx)
• Port Scanning with nmap and rustscan
• Wayback/Archived data with waybackurls or gau
• JS File Analysis using LinkFinder and manual review

🧪 Vulnerability Discovery

• Testing for XSS (Reflected, Stored, DOM)
• Finding IDORs by modifying userIDs, objectIDs, etc.
• Detecting SSRF using Burp Collaborator
• Fuzzing parameters with ffuf or dirsearch
• Common Wordlists: SecLists, PayloadsAllTheThings

🔐 Authentication & Access Control Bypass

• JWT Token Tampering
• Testing for weak login mechanisms & rate-limiting
• Broken Authentication via improper session handling
• Admin Panel Discovery
• Exploiting misconfigured roles or insecure direct object references

⚠️ Practical Bug Bounty Techniques

• Finding exposed `.git`, `.env`, `debug.log` files
• Hunting for leaked API keys and secrets in JS
• Broken CORS misconfigurations
• Open Redirects, Clickjacking, and Host Header attacks
• Chaining multiple low-severity bugs for bigger impact

🎯 Full Lab-Based Guides

• PortSwigger Labs – Practice XSS, CSRF, SQLi, SSRF, etc.
• TryHackMe Pentesting Path
• HTB Starting Point – Beginner-friendly practical boxes
• HackTricks – Encyclopedia of real-world exploitation techniques
• PayloadsOnline – XSS payloads, SQLi injections, bypasses

📚 Methodology Templates

• EdOverflow's Bug Bounty Guide
• Bug Bounty Cheatsheet
• The Bug Hunter Methodology by Jhaddix

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