Current Release: v0.4.1 (2020.12.8)
An advanced command-line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers, AKA web path scanner
dirsearch is being actively developed by @maurosoria and @shelld3v
- Kali Linux
- Installation
- Wordlists
- Options
- Configuration
- How to use
- Support Docker
- References
- Tips
- Contribution
- License
Requirement: python 3.7 or higher
Choose one of these installation options:
- Install with git:
git clone https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch.git
- Install with ZIP file: Download here
- Install with Docker:
docker build -t "dirsearch:v0.4.1"
(more information) - Install with Kali Linux:
sudo apt-get install dirsearch
Some notes:
- In case you want to global dirsearch, install it with pip:
pip3 install .
(inside dirsearch directory) - To can use SOCKS proxy feature, please install packages with requirements.txt:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
- Before installing dirsearch with pip, make sure you have edited
default.conf
to match your flavors, such as reports/logs location
All in one:
git clone https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch.git
cd dirsearch
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 dirsearch.py -u <URL> -e <EXTENSIONS>
Summary:
- Wordlist is a text file, each line is a path.
- About extensions, unlike other tools, dirsearch only replaces the
%EXT%
keyword with extensions from -e flag. - For wordlists without
%EXT%
(like SecLists), -f | --force-extensions switch is required to append extensions to every word in wordlist, as well as the/
. And for entries in wordlist that you do not want to append extensions, add%NOFORCE%
at the end of them. - To use multiple wordlists, you can separate your wordlists with commas. Example:
wordlist1.txt,wordlist2.txt
.
Examples:
- Normal extensions
index.%EXT%
Passing asp and aspx extensions will generate the following dictionary:
index
index.asp
index.aspx
- Force extensions
admin
api%NOFORCE%
Passing "php" and "html" extensions with -f/--force-extensions flag will generate the following dictionary:
admin
admin.php
admin.html
admin/
api
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 Load raw HTTP request from file (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
--deep-recursive Perform recursive scan on every directory depth
(Example: api/users -> api/)
--force-recursive Do recursive brute-force for every found path, not
only paths end with slash
--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, support ranges
--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
--auth-type=TYPE Authentication type (basic, digest, bearer, ntlm)
--auth=CREDENTIAL Authentication credential (user:password or bearer
token)
--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=RATE 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
Output file
--format=FORMAT Report format (Available: simple, plain, json, xml,
md, csv, html)
Default values for dirsearch flags can be edited in the configuration file: default.conf
# If you want to edit dirsearch default configurations, you can
# edit values in this file. Everything after `#` is a comment
# and won't be applied
[mandatory]
default-extensions = php,aspx,jsp,html,js
force-extensions = False
# exclude-extensions = old,log
[general]
threads = 30
recursive = False
deep-recursive = False
force-recursive = False
recursion-depth = 0
exclude-subdirs = %%ff/
random-user-agents = False
max-time = 0
full-url = False
quiet-mode = False
color = True
recursion-status = 200-399,401,403
# include-status = 200-299,401
# exclude-status = 400,500-999
# exclude-sizes = 0b,123gb
# exclude-texts = "Not found"
# exclude-regexps = "403 [a-z]{1,25}"
# exclude-content = 404.html
# skip-on-status = 429,999
[reports]
report-format = plain
autosave-report = True
# report-output-folder = /home/user
# logs-location = /tmp
## Supported: plain, simple, json, xml, md, csv, html
[dictionary]
lowercase = False
uppercase = False
capitalization = False
# prefixes = .,admin
# suffixes = ~,.bak
# wordlist = db/dicc.txt
[request]
httpmethod = get
## Lowercase only
follow-redirects = False
# headers-file = headers.txt
# user-agent = MyUserAgent
# cookie = SESSIONID=123
[connection]
timeout = 5
delay = 0
scheme = http
maxrate = 0
retries = 2
request-by-hostname = False
exit-on-error = False
# proxy = localhost:8080
# proxy-list = proxies.txt
# replay-proxy = localhost:8000
Some examples for how to use dirsearch - those are the most common arguments. If you need all, just use the -h argument.
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
- By using the -r | --recursive argument, dirsearch will brute-force recursively all directories.
python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target -r
- You can set the max recursion depth with --recursion-depth, and status-codes to recurse with --recursion-status
python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target -r --recursion-depth 3 --recursion-status 200-399
- There are 2 more options: --force-recursive and --deep-recursive
- Force recursive: Brute force recursively all found paths, not just paths end with
/
- Deep recursive: Recursive brute-force all depths of a path (
a/b/c
=> adda/
,a/b/
)
- Force recursive: Brute force recursively all found paths, not just paths end with
The thread number (-t | --threads) reflects the number of separated brute force processes. And so the bigger the thread number is, the faster dirsearch runs. By default, the number of threads is 30, but you can increase it if you want to speed up the progress.
In spite of that, the speed still 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 it can cause DoS.
python3 dirsearch.py -e php,htm,js,bak,zip,tgz,txt -u https://target -t 20
- --prefixes: Add 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: Add custom suffixes to all entries
python3 dirsearch.py -e php -u https://target --suffixes ~
Base wordlist:
index.php
internal
Generated with suffixes:
index.php~
internal~
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 will be filtered from the result.
Use -i | --include-status and -x | --exclude-status to select allowed and not allowed response status-codes
For more advanced filters: --exclude-sizes, --exclude-texts, --exclude-regexps, --exclude-redirects and --exclude-content
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-redirects "https://(.*).okta.com/*"
python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --exclude-content /error.html
dirsearch allows you to import the raw request from a file. The content would be something looked 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, you need to set it using the --scheme
flag. By default, the scheme is http
, which can cause a lot of false negatives.
Supported wordlist formats: uppercase, lowercase, capitalization
admin
index.html
ADMIN
INDEX.HTML
Admin
Index.html
- Use -X | --exclude-extensions with an extension list will remove all paths in the wordlist that contains the given extensions
python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target -X jsp
Base wordlist:
admin.php
test.jsp
After:
admin.php
- If you want to exclude ALL extensions, except for the ones you selected in the
-e
flag, use --only-selected
python3 dirsearch.py -e html -u https://target --only-selected
Base wordlist:
index.html
admin.php
After:
index.html
- From an URL, you can scan a list of sub-directories with --subdirs.
python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --subdirs admin/,folder/,/
- The reverse version of this is --exclude-subdirs, which prevents dirsearch from scan recursively the given sub-directories.
python3 dirsearch.py -e php,html,js -u https://target --recursive --exclude-subdirs image/,css/
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
Supported report formats: simple, plain, json, xml, md, csv, html
python3 dirsearch.py -e php -l URLs.txt --format plain -o report.txt
python3 dirsearch.py -e php -u https://target --format html -o target.json
python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target -t 100 -m POST --data "username=admin"
python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target --random-agent --cookie "isAdmin=1" -F
python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target --format json -o target.json
python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target --auth admin:pass --auth-type basic
python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target --header-list rate-limit-bypasses.txt
python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target -q --stop-on-error --max-time 360
python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target --full-url --max-rate 100
python3 dirsearch.py -u https://target --remove-extensions
There are more features and you will need to discover them by yourself
Install Docker
curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com | bash
To use docker you need superuser power
To create image
docker build -t "dirsearch:v0.4.1" .
dirsearch is the name of the image and v0.4.1 is the version
For using
docker run -it --rm "dirsearch:v0.4.1" -u target -e php,html,js,zip
- Comprehensive Guide on Dirsearch by Shubham Sharma
- Comprehensive Guide on Dirsearch Part 2 by Shubham Sharma
- GUÍA COMPLETA SOBRE EL USO DE DIRSEARCH by ESGEEKS
- How to use Dirsearch to detect web directories by EHacking
- dirsearch how to by VK9 Security
- Find Hidden Web Directories with Dirsearch by Wonder How To
- Brute force directories and files in webservers using dirsearch by Raj Upadhyay
- Live Bug Bounty Recon Session on Yahoo (Amass, crts.sh, dirsearch) w/ @TheDawgyg by Nahamsec
- Dirsearch to find Hidden Web Directories by Irfan Shakeel
- Getting access to 25000 employees details by Sahil Ahamad
- Best Tools For Directory Bruteforcing by Shubham Goyal
- The server has requests limit? That's bad, but feel free to bypass it, by randomizing proxy with
--proxy-list
- Want to find out config files or backups? Try
--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? Why not combine
--remove-extensions
and--suffixes /
! - The mix of
--cidr
,-F
,-q
and will reduce most of noises + false negatives when brute-forcing with a CIDR - Scan a list of URLs, but don't want to see a 429 flood?
--skip-on-status 429
will help you to skip a target whenever it returns 429 - The server contains large files that slow down the scan? You might want to use
HEAD
HTTP method instead ofGET
- Brute-forcing CIDR is slow? Probably you forgot to reduce request timeout and request retries. Suggest:
--timeout 3 --retries 1
We have been receiving a lot of helps from many people around the world to improve this tool. Thanks so much to everyone who have helped us so far! See CONTRIBUTORS.md to know who they are.
Copyright (C) Mauro Soria (maurosoria@gmail.com)
License: GNU General Public License, version 2