Chapter 15

  1. The metalanguage that's used for Microsoft Word was designed to be as simple as possible while still serving enough features that it was possible to create a basic penetration test report. It is a language that is used for creating custom templates in Serpico (as defined in their GitHub repository). To learn more about metalanguage in Serpico, please refer to https://github.com/SerpicoProject/Serpico/wiki/Serpico-Meta-Language-In-Depth.

  2. A generic penetration testing report should include the vulnerability name, vulnerability description, affected endpoint, steps of reproduction (proof of concept), business impact, remediation, and references.

  3. Guinevere, Prithvi, and many more open source automated reporting tools are publicly available and can be used for easy report generation.

  4. Yes. Both Dradis Framework and Serpico are written in Ruby and they're cross-platform supported tools that can be run on Microsoft Windows. The only requirement is that the Ruby packages need to be installed on the Windows system.