Scanning and Recon
These tools will scan web applications for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, remember that they will cause a lot of traffic making lots of requests.
NOTE: This is not an exhaustive list.
WAF detect
Your target may have a web application firewall (WAF) which might try to prevent scanning, exploitation and other security tests. It's important that we can identify what WAF is in place so we can try and bypass it. Some targets might be vulnerable and normally an exploit would work however the WAF is preventing the exploit from popping the box. You can try to encode the payload (Burpsuite is good for this) amongst other things to bypass the WAF.
- Blog: https://blog.yeswehack.com/yeswerhackers/web-application-firewall-bypass
- https://github.com/EnableSecurity/wafw00f
- https://github.com/Ekultek/WhatWaf
- https://github.com/0xInfection/Awesome-WAF
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/master/technologies/waf-detect.yaml
Vulnerability scanners
To quickly cover a lot of ground it's a good idea to scan your target using vulnerability scanners as they might be able to discover a vulnerability or misconfiguration that you can't find. To avoid WAFs make sure to use a list of random user-agent strings and a residential proxy list if possible and maybe encode some payloads.
- Axiom distributes the load of your scanning tools across multiple servers. https://github.com/pry0cc/axiom. Twitter Thread
- https://github.com/six2dez/reconftw. Free scan config (no API)
- https://github.com/lanmaster53/recon-ng
- https://github.com/Dionach/CMSmap
- https://github.com/jaeles-project/jaeles
- https://github.com/1N3/Sn1per
- https://w3af.org/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei
subfinder -d nasa.gov -silent | httpx -silent | nuclei -silent -s critical,high,medium,low -o results.txt
- https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan [Free and paid]
- https://github.com/OWASP/joomscan
- https://www.zaproxy.org
- https://github.com/fgeek/pyfiscan
- https://github.com/immunIT/drupwn
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework
- https://github.com/Tuhinshubhra/RED_HAWK
- https://github.com/root-tanishq/userefuzz
- https://sourceforge.net/projects/grendel
- https://github.com/greenbone/openvas-scanner
- https://wapiti.sourceforge.io
- https://nmap.org/book/man-nse.html
- https://github.com/osmedeus/osmedeus-base [Free and Paid]
- https://github.com/v3n0m-Scanner/V3n0M-Scanner
- https://github.com/yogeshojha/rengine
- https://github.com/streaak/keyhacks
- https://github.com/tomnomnom/waybackurls
- Metabigor is Intelligence tool, its goal is to do OSINT tasks and more but without any API key: https://github.com/j3ssie/Metabigor
Subdomain enumeration
Enumerate your targets top level domain (TLD) as part of your recon to identify entry points in your targets infrastructure. Pay special attention to interesting subdomains such as test, dev, backup, etc. Your targets subdomains may also be running out of date software, less or no authentication where there should be and more vulnerabilities as opposed to the TLD.
You can also try ./reconftw.sh -d nasa.gov -s
for a more comprehensive subdomain enumeration.
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/subfinder
- Subdomain enumeration dork:
site:*.nasa.gov
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/shuffledns
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx
- https://github.com/infosec-au/altdns
- https://github.com/resyncgg/ripgen
Subdomain takeover
A subdomain takeover allows us to gain control over a misconfigured or abandoned subdomain. This is done by exploiting vulnerabilities in DNS settings, expired or deleted services, or incomplete migrations. Once control is established, we can employ social engineering tactics such as phishing, this could be hosting phishing pages on legitimate company subdomains that are already trusted by employees.
- https://github.com/EdOverflow/can-i-take-over-xyz
- https://github.com/Ice3man543/SubOver
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/tree/main/http/takeovers
- https://www.hackerone.com/application-security/guide-subdomain-takeovers
Content discovery
- https://www.cirt.net/nikto2
- https://github.com/epi052/feroxbuster
- https://github.com/OJ/gobuster
- https://github.com/ffuf/ffuf
- https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch
Word Lists
Word lists can be used in your content discovery when performing directory bruteforcing, subdomain bruteforcing and password attacks.
- https://wordlists.assetnote.io
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists
- https://github.com/ameenmaali/wordlistgen
Port scanners
When performing a port scan pay special attention to non-standard ports.
- https://github.com/nmap/nmap
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/naabu
- https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan
- https://github.com/zmap/zmap
- https://github.com/RustScan/RustScan
Technology scanners
NOTE: using browser add-ons will change your browser fingerprint and reduce anonymity.
When performing a penetration test we will want to know what technology is running on the target and what version it's running as so that later we can start looking for possible working public exploits.
- https://www.wappalyzer.com
- https://www.whatruns.com
- https://github.com/urbanadventurer/whatweb
- https://github.com/praetorian-inc/fingerprintx
- https://github.com/rverton/webanalyze
subfinder -d nasa.gov -silent | httpx -silent | nuclei -t technologies -silent
Web Crawlers
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana
- https://github.com/jaeles-project/gospider
- https://github.com/hakluke/hakrawler
- https://www.zaproxy.org
- https://github.com/edoardottt/cariddi
ASN scanners
- Map out an organizations network ranges using ASN information: https://github.com/projectdiscovery/asnmap
- https://github.com/banviktor/asnlookup
amass intel -asn AS21556
echo 'nasa' | metabigor net --org -v
echo 'AS21556' | metabigor net --asn -v
Google hacking
- (Book) Google Hacking for Penetration Testers 3rd Edition
- https://github.com/Proviesec/google-dorks
- https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database
- https://dorksearch.com
Exploitation
For automatic exploit tools and payloads, see exploitation.