dirsearch - Web path scanner

Current Release: v0.4.1 (2020.12.8)

Overview

"dirsearch" is a mature command-line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers.
With 6 years of growth, dirsearch now has become the top web content scanner.
As a feature-rich tool, dirsearch gives users the opportunity to perform a complex web content discovering, with many vectors for the wordlist, high accuracy, impressive performance, advanced connection/request settings, modern brute-force techniques and nice output.
"dirsearch" is being actively developed by @maurosoria and @shelld3v

Installation & Usage

git clone https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch.git
cd dirsearch
python3 dirsearch.py -u <URL> -e <EXTENSIONS>

In case you want to run dirsearch anywhere:

git clone https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch.git
cd dirsearch
pip3 install .
dirsearch -u <URL> -e <EXTENSIONS>

To can use SOCKS proxy, you need to install pips with requirements.txt: pip3 install -r requirements.txt
If you are using Windows and don't have git, you can install the ZIP file here. dirsearch also supports Docker

dirsearch requires python 3 or greater

About wordlists

Summary: Wordlist must be a text file, each line will be an endpoint. About extensions, unlike other tools, dirsearch doesn't append extensions to every word, if you don't use the -f flag. By default, only the %EXT% keyword in the wordlist will be replaced with extensions (-e <extensions>).

Details:

Each line in the wordlist will be processed as such, except when the special keyword %EXT% is used, it will generate one entry for each extension (-e | --extensions) passed as an argument.

Example:

index.%EXT%

Passing the extensions "asp" and "aspx" (-e asp,aspx) will generate the following dictionary:

index
index.asp
index.aspx

For wordlists without %EXT% (like SecLists), you need to use the -f | --force-extensions switch to append extensions to every word in the wordlists, as well as the "/". And for entries in the wordlist that you do not want to force, you can add %NOFORCE% at the end of them so dirsearch won't append any extension.

Example:

admin
api%NOFORCE%

Passing extensions "php" and "html" with the -f/--force-extensions flag (-f -e php,html) will generate the following dictionary:

admin
admin.php
admin.html
admin/
api

To use multiple wordlists, you can seperate your wordlists with commas. Example: -w wordlist1.txt,wordlist2.txt

Options

Usage: dirsearch.py [-u|--url] target [-e|--extensions] extensions [options]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  Mandatory:
    -u URL, --url=URL   Target URL
    -l FILE, --url-list=FILE
                        Target URL list file
    --stdin             Target URL list from STDIN
    --cidr=CIDR         Target CIDR
    --raw=FILE          File contains the raw request (use `--scheme` flag to
                        set the scheme)
    -e EXTENSIONS, --extensions=EXTENSIONS
                        Extension list separated by commas (Example: php,asp)
    -X EXTENSIONS, --exclude-extensions=EXTENSIONS
                        Exclude extension list separated by commas (Example:
                        asp,jsp)
    -f, --force-extensions
                        Add extensions to every wordlist entry. By default
                        dirsearch only replaces the %EXT% keyword with
                        extensions

  Dictionary Settings:
    -w WORDLIST, --wordlists=WORDLIST
                        Customize wordlists (separated by commas)
    --prefixes=PREFIXES
                        Add custom prefixes to all wordlist entries (separated
                        by commas)
    --suffixes=SUFFIXES
                        Add custom suffixes to all wordlist entries, ignore
                        directories (separated by commas)
    --only-selected     Remove paths have different extensions from selected
                        ones via `-e` (keep entries don't have extensions)
    --remove-extensions
                        Remove extensions in all paths (Example: admin.php ->
                        admin)
    -U, --uppercase     Uppercase wordlist
    -L, --lowercase     Lowercase wordlist
    -C, --capital       Capital wordlist

  General Settings:
    -t THREADS, --threads=THREADS
                        Number of threads
    -r, --recursive     Brute-force recursively
    --recursion-depth=DEPTH
                        Maximum recursion depth
    --recursion-status=CODES
                        Valid status codes to perform recursive scan, support
                        ranges (separated by commas)
    --subdirs=SUBDIRS   Scan sub-directories of the given URL[s] (separated by
                        commas)
    --exclude-subdirs=SUBDIRS
                        Exclude the following subdirectories during recursive
                        scan (separated by commas)
    -i CODES, --include-status=CODES
                        Include status codes, separated by commas, support
                        ranges (Example: 200,300-399)
    -x CODES, --exclude-status=CODES
                        Exclude status codes, separated by commas, support
                        ranges (Example: 301,500-599)
    --exclude-sizes=SIZES
                        Exclude responses by sizes, separated by commas
                        (Example: 123B,4KB)
    --exclude-texts=TEXTS
                        Exclude responses by texts, separated by commas
                        (Example: 'Not found', 'Error')
    --exclude-regexps=REGEXPS
                        Exclude responses by regexps, separated by commas
                        (Example: 'Not foun[a-z]{1}', '^Error$')
    --exclude-redirects=REGEXPS
                        Exclude responses by redirect regexps or texts,
                        separated by commas (Example: 'https://okta.com/*')
    --exclude-content=PATH
                        Exclude responses by response content of this path
    --skip-on-status=CODES
                        Skip target whenever hit one of these status codes,
                        separated by commas
    --minimal=LENGTH    Minimal response length
    --maximal=LENGTH    Maximal response length
    --max-time=SECONDS  Maximal runtime for the scan
    -q, --quiet-mode    Quiet mode
    --full-url          Full URLs in the output (enabled automatically in
                        quiet mode)
    --no-color          No colored output

  Request Settings:
    -m METHOD, --http-method=METHOD
                        HTTP method (default: GET)
    -d DATA, --data=DATA
                        HTTP request data
    -H HEADERS, --header=HEADERS
                        HTTP request header, support multiple flags (Example:
                        -H 'Referer: example.com')
    --header-list=FILE  File contains HTTP request headers
    -F, --follow-redirects
                        Follow HTTP redirects
    --random-agent      Choose a random User-Agent for each request
    --user-agent=USERAGENT
    --cookie=COOKIE     

  Connection Settings:
    --timeout=TIMEOUT   Connection timeout
    -s DELAY, --delay=DELAY
                        Delay between requests
    --proxy=PROXY       Proxy URL, support HTTP and SOCKS proxies (Example:
                        localhost:8080, socks5://localhost:8088)
    --proxy-list=FILE   File contains proxy servers
    --replay-proxy=PROXY
                        Proxy to replay with found paths
    --scheme=SCHEME     Default scheme (for raw request or if there is no
                        scheme in the URL)
    --max-rate=REQUESTS
                        Max requests per second
    --retries=RETRIES   Number of retries for failed requests
    -b, --request-by-hostname
                        By default dirsearch requests by IP for speed. This
                        will force dirsearch to request by hostname
    --ip=IP             Server IP address
    --exit-on-error     Exit whenever an error occurs

  Reports:
    -o FILE             Output file
    --format=FORMAT     Report format (Available: simple, plain, json, xml,
                        md, csv, html)

NOTE: You can change the dirsearch default configurations (default extensions, timeout, wordlist location, ...) by editing the default.conf file.

How to use

Some examples for how to use dirsearch - those are the most common arguments. If you need all, just use the -h argument.

Simple usage

python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target -w /path/to/wordlist

Recursive scan

By using the -r | --recursive argument, dirsearch will automatically brute-force the after of directories that it found.

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target -r

You can set the max recursion depth with -R or --recursion-depth

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target -r -R 3

Threads

The threads number (-t | --threads) reflects the number of separate brute force processes, that each process will perform path brute-forcing against the target. And so the bigger the threads number is, the more fast dirsearch runs. By default, the number of threads is 20, but you can increase it if you want to speed up the progress.

In spite of that, the speed is actually still uncontrollable since it depends a lot on the response time of the server. And as a warning, we advise you to keep the threads number not too big because of the impact from too much automation requests, this should be adjusted to fit the power of the system that you're scanning against.

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,htm,js,bak,zip,tgz,txt -u https://target -t 30

Prefixes / Suffixes

--prefixes: Adding custom prefixes to all entries

python3 dirsearch.py -e php -u https://target --prefixes .,admin,_

Base wordlist:

tools

Generated with prefixes:

.tools
admintools
_tools

--suffixes: Adding custom suffixes to all entries

python3 dirsearch.py -e php -u https://target --suffixes ~,/

Base wordlist:

index.php
internal

Generated with suffixes:

index.php~
index.php/
internal~
internal/

Blacklist

Inside the db folder, there are several "blacklist files". Paths in those files will be filtered from the scan result if they have the same status as mentioned in the filename.

Example: If you add admin.php into db/403_blacklist.txt, whenever you do a scan that admin.php returns 403, it (admin.php) will be excluded.

Filters

Use -i | --include-status and -x | --exclude-status to select allowed and not allowed response status codes

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target -i 200,204,400,403 -x 500,502,429

--exclude-sizes, --exclude-texts, --exclude-regexps, --exclude-redirects and --exclude-content are also supported for a more advanced filter

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --exclude-sizes 1B,243KB

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --exclude-texts "403 Forbidden"

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --exclude-regexps "^Error$"

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --exclude-content "admin.php"

Raw requests

dirsearch allows you to import the raw request from a file. The raw file content will be looked something like this:

GET /admin HTTP/1.1
Host: admin.example.com
Cache-Control: max-age=0
Accept: */*

Since there is no way for dirsearch to know what the URI scheme is (http or https), you need to set it using the --scheme flag. By default, the scheme is http, which is not popular in modern web servers now. That means, without setting up the scheme, you may brute-force with the wrong protocol, and will end up with false negatives.

Wordlist formats

Supported wordlist formats: uppercase, lowercase, capitalization

Lowercase:

admin
index.html

Uppercase:

ADMIN
INDEX.HTML

Capital:

Admin
Index.html

Exclude extensions

Use -X | --exclude-extensions with your exclude-extension list to remove all entries in the wordlist that have the given extensions

python3 dirsearch.py -e asp,aspx -u https://target -X jsp

Base wordlist:

admin
admin.%EXT%
test.jsp

After:

admin
admin.asp
admin.aspx

Scan sub-directories

From an URL, you can scan sub-directories with --subdirs.

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --subdirs admin/,folder/,/

A reverse version of this feature is --exclude-subdirs, which to prevent dirsearch from brute-forcing directories that should not be brute-forced when doing a recursive scan.

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --recursive -R 2 --exclude-subdirs "server-status/,%3f/"

Proxies

Dirsearch supports SOCKS and HTTP proxy, with two options: a proxy server or a list of proxy servers.

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --proxy 127.0.0.1:8080

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --proxy socks5://10.10.0.1:8080

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --proxylist proxyservers.txt

Reports

Dirsearch allows the user to save the output into a file. It supports several output formats like text or json, and we are keep updating for new formats

python3 dirsearch.py -e php -l URLs.txt --format plain -o report.txt

python3 dirsearch.py -e php -u https://target --format json -o target.json

python3 dirsearch.py -e php -u https://target --format simple -o target.txt

Some others commands

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt -H "X-Forwarded-Host: 127.0.0.1" -f

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt -t 100 -m POST --data "username=admin"

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt --random-agent --cookie "isAdmin=1"

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt --format json -o target.json

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt --minimal 1

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt --header-list rate-limit-bypasses.txt

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt -q --stop-on-error

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt --full-url

python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt --no-extension

There are more features and you will need to discover it by your self

Tips

To run dirsearch with a rate of requests per second, try -t <rate> -s 1
The server has a request limit? That's bad, but feel free to bypass it, by randomizing proxy with --proxy-list
Want to findout config files or backups? Try out --suffixes ~ and --prefixes .
For some endpoints that you do not want to force extensions, add %NOFORCE% at the end of them
Want to find only folders/directories? Combine --no-extension and --suffixes /!
The combination of --cidr, -F, -q and a low --timeout will reduce most of the noise + false negatives when brute-forcing with a CIDR

Support Docker

Install Docker Linux

Install Docker

curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | bash

To use docker you need superuser power

Build Image dirsearch

To create image

docker build -t "dirsearch:v0.4.1" .

dirsearch is the name of the image and v0.4.1 is the version

Using dirsearch

For using

docker run -it --rm "dirsearch:v0.4.1" -u target -e php,html,js,zip

License

License: GNU General Public License, version 2

Contributors

This tool is currently under development by @maurosoria and @shelld3v. We received a lot of help from many people around the world to improve this tool. Thanks so much to everyone who helped us!!

See CONTRIBUTORS.md for more information about who they are!

Want to join the team? Feel free to submit any pull request that you can. If you don't know how to code, you can support us by updating the wordlist or the documentation. Giving feedback or a new feature suggestion is also a good way to help us improve this tool

spikechou/dirsearch

dirsearch - Web path scanner

Overview

Installation & Usage

About wordlists

Options

How to use

Simple usage

Recursive scan

Threads

Prefixes / Suffixes

Blacklist

Filters

Raw requests

Wordlist formats

Lowercase:

Uppercase:

Capital:

Exclude extensions

Scan sub-directories

Proxies

Reports

Some others commands

Tips

Support Docker

Install Docker Linux

Build Image dirsearch

Using dirsearch

License

Contributors

Want to join the team? Feel free to submit any pull request that you can. If you don't know how to code, you can support us by updating the wordlist or the documentation. Giving feedback or a new feature suggestion is also a good way to help us improve this tool