From: Paul Melson (pmelsongmail.com)
Date: Mon Apr 26 2010 - 14:22:26 CDT

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> i am looking to pen test an app which is not a webapp :) . on browsing to
the url it launches a java
> application using jnlp.
>
> i used a network traffic sniffer to see the traffic, and it is making post
requests to several different urls
> (e.g. webapp.com/generatereport etc.), and the response is of type
x-serialize object.
>
> any suggestions on what could be things to look at for such a pentest?

Rather than try and reverse the POST requests by looking at packet captures,
I would simply decompile the Java file using jad or JD-Core. The code
generating those requests should be easy enough to find and read.

http://java.decompiler.free.fr/

PaulM

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