Dirsearch

Current Release: v0.4.0 (2020.9.25)

Overview

dirsearch is an advanced command line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers.

Installation & Usage

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

• For shorter command (Unix):

chmod +x dirsearch.py
./dirsearch.py -u <URL> -e <EXTENSION>

If you are using Windows and don't have git, you can install the ZIP file here, then extract and run

Dirsearch only supports python 3 or greater

Options

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  Mandatory:
    -u URL, --url=URL   URL target
    -l URLLIST, --url-list=URLLIST
                        URL list target
    -e EXTENSIONS, --extensions=EXTENSIONS
                        Extensions list separated by comma (Example: php,asp)
    -E, --extensions-list
                        Use predefined list of common extensions
    -X EXCLUDEEXTENSIONS, --exclude-extensions=EXCLUDEEXTENSIONS
                        Exclude extensions list, separated by comma (Example:
                        asp,jsp)

  Dictionary Settings:
    -w WORDLIST, --wordlist=WORDLIST
                        Customize wordlist (separated by comma)
    --prefixes=PREFIXES
                        Add custom prefixes to all entries (separated by
                        comma)
    --suffixes=SUFFIXES
                        Add custom suffixes to all entries, ignores
                        directories (separated by comma)
    -f, --force-extensions
                        Force extensions for every wordlist entry. Add
                        %NOFORCE% at the end of the entry in the wordlist that
                        you do not want to force
    --no-extension      Remove extensions in all entries (Example: admin.php
                        -> admin)
    --no-dot-extensions
                        Remove the "." character before extensions
    -U, --uppercase     Uppercase wordlist
    -L, --lowercase     Lowercase wordlist
    -C, --capitalization
                        Capital wordlist

  General Settings:
    -d DATA, --data=DATA
                        HTTP request data (POST, PUT, ... body)
    -s DELAY, --delay=DELAY
                        Delay between requests (support float number)
    -r, --recursive     Bruteforce recursively
    -R RECURSIVE_LEVEL_MAX, --recursive-level-max=RECURSIVE_LEVEL_MAX
                        Max recursion level (subdirs) (Default: 1 [only
                        rootdir + 1 dir])
    --suppress-empty    Suppress empty responses
    --minimal=MINIMUMRESPONSESIZE
                        Minimal response length
    --maximal=MAXIMUMRESPONSESIZE
                        Maximal response length
    --scan-subdir=SCANSUBDIRS, --scan-subdirs=SCANSUBDIRS
                        Scan subdirectories of the given URL (separated by
                        comma)
    --exclude-subdir=EXCLUDESUBDIRS, --exclude-subdirs=EXCLUDESUBDIRS
                        Exclude the following subdirectories during recursive
                        scan (separated by comma)
    -t THREADSCOUNT, --threads=THREADSCOUNT
                        Number of Threads
    -i INCLUDESTATUSCODES, --include-status=INCLUDESTATUSCODES
                        Show only included status codes, separated by comma
                        (example: 301, 500)
    -x EXCLUDESTATUSCODES, --exclude-status=EXCLUDESTATUSCODES
                        Do not show excluded status codes, separated by comma
                        (example: 301, 500)
    --exclude-texts=EXCLUDETEXTS
                        Exclude responses by texts, separated by comma
                        (example: "Not found", "Error")
    --exclude-regexps=EXCLUDEREGEXPS
                        Exclude responses by regexps, separated by comma
                        (example: "Not foun[a-z]{1}", "^Error$")
    -c COOKIE, --cookie=COOKIE
    --user-agent=USERAGENT
    -F, --follow-redirects
    -H HEADERS, --header=HEADERS
                        HTTP request headers, support multiple flags (example:
                        --header "Referer: example.com" --header "User-Agent:
                        IE")
    --header-list=FILENAME
                        File contains HTTP request headers. The format of the file is as below
                        
                        Referer:Example.com
                        Host: Abc.com
                        Token: 123dh2dsds=sd2wd1
                        OtherHeaders: OtherValues        
                
    --full-url          Print the full URL in the output
    --random-agents, --random-user-agents
    -q, --quite-mode

  Connection Settings:
    --timeout=TIMEOUT   Connection timeout
    --ip=IP             Resolve name to IP address
    --proxy=HTTPPROXY, --http-proxy=HTTPPROXY
                        HTTP Proxy (example: localhost:8080)
    --proxylist=PROXYLIST, --http-proxy-list=PROXYLIST
                        File containg HTTP proxy servers
    -m HTTPMETHOD, --http-method=HTTPMETHOD
                        HTTP method, default: GET
    --max-retries=MAXRETRIES
    -b, --request-by-hostname
                        By default dirsearch will request by IP for speed.
                        This will force requests by hostname

  Reports:
    --simple-report=SIMPLEOUTPUTFILE
                        Only found paths
    --plain-text-report=PLAINTEXTOUTPUTFILE
                        Found paths with status codes
    --json-report=JSONOUTPUTFILE

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

Operating Systems supported

• Windows XP/7/8/10
• GNU/Linux
• MacOSX

Features

• Fast
• Multithreaded
• Keep alive connections
• Support for multiple extensions (-e|--extensions asp,php)
• Support for every HTTP method
• Support for HTTP request data
• Extensions excluding
• Reporting (plain text, JSON)
• Heuristically detects invalid web pages
• Recursive brute forcing
• Subdirectories brute forcing
• Force extensions
• HTTP proxy support
• HTTP cookies and headers support
• User agent randomization
• Proxy host randomization
• Batch processing
• Request delaying
• Multiple wordlist formats (lowercase, uppercase, capitalization)
• Quiet mode
• Option to force requests by hostname
• Option to exclude responses by texts
• Option to exclude responses by regexps (example: "Not foun[a-z]{1}")
• Option to remove dot from extension when forcing
• Options to display only items with response length from range
• Option to whitelist response codes (-i 200,500)
• Option to blacklist response codes (-x 404,403)
• Option to add custom suffixes and prefixes
• ...

About wordlists

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

Example:

• sample/
• example.%EXT%

Passing the extensions "asp" and "aspx" will generate the following dictionary:

• sample/
• example
• example.asp
• example.aspx

You can also use -f | --force-extensions switch to append extensions to every word in the wordlists.

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

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 -E -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 adding "-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 "--recursive-level-max"

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

Exclude extensions

Sometimes your wordlist may contains many extensions, for many cases like .asp, .aspx, .php, .jsp, ... But if you found the core application behind it, ASP.NET for example, many of those endpoints will be useless right? Don't worry, try "-X " and all endpoints with extensions you selected will be removed.

python3 dirsearch.py -e asp,aspx,html,htm,js -u https://target -X php,jsp,jspx

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
~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/

Wordlist formats

Supported wordlist formats: uppercase, lowercase, capitalization

python3 dirsearch.py -e html -u https://target --lowercase

admin
index.html
test

---

python3 dirsearch.py -e html -u https://target --uppercase

ADMIN
INDEX.HTML
TEST

---

python3 dirsearch.py -e html -u https://target --capitalization

Admin
Index.html
Test

Filters

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

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

"--exclude-texts" and "--exclude-regexps" are also supported for more advanced filter

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$"

Scan sub-directories

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

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

A reverse version of this feature is "--exclude-subdir | --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 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 --proxylist proxyservers.txt

Some others commands

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt -H "User-Agent: IE" -f

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt -t 40 -f

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

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt --json-report=reports/target.json

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt --simple-report=reports/target-paths.txt

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt --json-report=reports/report.json

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

Tips

• Want to run dirsearch with a rate of requests per second? Try -t <rate> -s 1
• Want to findout config files or backups? Try out --suffixes ~ and --prefixes .
• Don't want to force extensions on some endpoints? Add %NOFORCE% at the end of them so dirsearch won't do that
• Want to find only folders/directories? Combine --no-extension and --suffixes / then done!

Keep updating ...

Alerts

• Don't use -e *, it won't replace * with all extensions as what you are thinking

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:v0.4.0" .

dirsearch this is name the image and v0.4.0 is version

Using dirsearch

For using

docker run -it --rm "dirsearch:v0.4.0" -u target -e php,html,js,zip

target is the site or IP

License

Copyright (C) Mauro Soria ([email protected])

License: GNU General Public License, version 2

Contributors

Main: @maurosoria and @shelld3v

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