Dirsearch

Current Release: v0.4.0 (2020.9.27)

Overview

Dirsearch is a mature command-line tool designed to brute force directories and files in webservers.

With 6 years of growing, dirsearch now has become the top web content scanner. As a feature-rich tool, dirsearch allows the user 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.

Although there are now many awesome fuzzers like wfuzz, gobuster or ffuf, dirsearch is still showing it's own unique in features and detections when doing web content brute-force. Instead of supporting parameters fuzzing like in ffuf or wfuzz, dirsearch still keeps it as a traditional web path brute forcer. This allows dirsearch to much more focus on the accuracy of the output and support more features for its purpose.

Installation & Usage

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

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

Dirsearch also supports Docker

Dirsearch requires python 3 or greater

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
                        URL list file
    --cidr=CIDR         Target CIDR
    -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)

  Dictionary Settings:
    -w WORDLIST, --wordlist=WORDLIST
                        Customize wordlist (separated by commas)
    --prefixes=PREFIXES
                        Add custom prefixes to all entries (separated by
                        commas)
    --suffixes=SUFFIXES
                        Add custom suffixes to all entries, ignores
                        directories (separated by commas)
    -f, --force-extensions
                        Force extensions for every wordlist entry
    --only-selected     Only entries with selected extensions or no extension
                        + directories
    --remove-extensions
                        Remove extensions in all wordlist entries (Example:
                        admin.php -> admin)
    --no-dot-extensions
                        Remove the "." character before extensions
    -U, --uppercase     Uppercase wordlist
    -L, --lowercase     Lowercase wordlist
    -C, --capital       Capital wordlist

  General Settings:
    -r, --recursive     Bruteforce recursively
    -R DEPTH, --recursion-depth=DEPTH
                        Max recursion depth (subdirs) (Default: 0 [infinity])
    -t THREADS, --threads=THREADS
                        Number of threads
    -d DATA, --data=DATA
                        HTTP request data
    --minimal=LENGTH    Minimal response length
    --maximal=LENGTH    Maximal response length
    --scan-subdirs=SUBDIRS
                        Scan subdirectories of the given URL (separated by
                        commas)
    --exclude-subdirs=SUBDIRS
                        Exclude the following subdirectories during recursive
                        scan (separated by commas)
    -i STATUS, --include-status=STATUS
                        Show only included status codes, separated by commas
                        (Example: 301,500)
    -x STATUS, --exclude-status=STATUS
                        Do not show excluded status codes, separated by commas
                        (Example: 301,500)
    --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$")
    -H HEADERS, --header=HEADERS
                        HTTP request header, support multiple flags (Example:
                        -H "Referer: example.com" -H "Accept: */*")
    --header-list=FILE  File contains HTTP request headers
    --random-user-agent
                        Choose a random User-Agent for each request
    -F, --follow-redirects
                        Follow HTTP redirects
    --full-url          Print full URLs in the output
    --user-agent=USERAGENT
    --cookie=COOKIE
    -q, --quiet-mode

  Connection Settings:
    --timeout=TIMEOUT   Connection timeout
    --ip=IP             Server IP address
    -s DELAY, --delay=DELAY
                        Delay between requests (support float number)
    --proxy=PROXY       Proxy URL, support HTTP and SOCKS proxy (Example:
                        localhost:8080, socks5://localhost:8088)
    --proxy-list=FILE   File contains proxy servers
    -m METHOD, --http-method=METHOD
                        HTTP method (default: GET)
    --max-retries=RETRIES
    -b, --request-by-hostname
                        By default dirsearch requests by IP for speed. This
                        will force requests by hostname
    --exit-on-error     Exit whenever an error occurs
    --debug

  Reports:
    --simple-report=OUTPUTFILE
    --plain-text-report=OUTPUTFILE
    --json-report=OUTPUTFILE
    --xml-report=OUTPUTFILE
    --markdown-report=OUTPUTFILE

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
• Easy and simple to use
• Multithreading
• Wildcard responses filtering (invalid webpages)
• Keep alive connections
• Support for multiple extensions
• Support for every HTTP method
• Support for HTTP request data
• Extensions excluding
• Reporting (Plain text, JSON, XML)
• Recursive brute forcing
• Target enumuration from an IP range
• Sub-directories brute forcing
• Force extensions
• HTTP and SOCKS proxy support
• HTTP cookies and headers support
• HTTP headers from file
• User agent randomization
• Proxy host randomization
• Batch processing
• Request delaying
• Multiple wordlist formats (lowercase, uppercase, capitalization)
• Default configuration from file
• Quiet mode
• Debug mode
• Option to force requests by hostname
• Option to add custom suffixes and prefixes
• Option to whitelist response codes (-i 200,500)
• Option to blacklist response codes (-x 404,403)
• Option to exclude responses by sizes
• Option to exclude responses by texts
• Option to exclude responses by regexps (example: "Not foun[a-z]{1}")
• Options to display only items with response length from range
• Option to remove all extensions from every wordlist entry
• Option to remove the dot before extensions
• ...

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 | --extensions) 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. 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.

To use multiple wordlists, you can seperate your wordlists with commas. 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 -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 "--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

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, many of those endpoints will be useless right? Don't worry, try "-X " and all endpoints have given extensions 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 php,html,js -u https://target -i 200,204,400,403 -x 500,502,429

"--exclude-sizes", "--exclude-texts" and "--exclude-regexps" 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$"

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 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 --plain-text-report report.txt

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

python3 dirsearch.py -e php -u https://target --simple-report 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 "PHPSESSID=el4ukv0kqbvoirg7nkp4dncpk3"

python3 dirsearch.py -e php,txt,zip -u https://target -w db/dicc.txt --json-report=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
• 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 and -q will reduce most of the noise + false negatives when brute-forcing with a CIDR

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

Special thanks for these people:

• @V-Rico
• @random-robbie
• @mzfr
• @DustinTheGreat
• @jsfan
• @liamosaur
• @Anon-Exploiter
• @tkisason
• @ricardojba
• @Sjord
• @danritter
• @shahril96
• @drego85
• @Bo0oM
• @exploide
• @redshark180
• @zrquan
• @SUHAR1K
• @eur0pa
• @FireFart
• @telnet22
• @sysevil
• @mazen160
• @k2l8m11n2
• @vlohacks
• @russtone
• @jsav0
• @serhattsnmz
• @ColdFusionX
• @gdattacker
• @chowmean

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 the good way to help us improve this tool