The OWASP Amass tool suite obtains subdomain names by scraping data sources, recursive brute forcing, crawling web archives, permuting/altering names and reverse DNS sweeping. Additionally, Amass uses the IP addresses obtained during resolution to discover associated netblocks and ASNs. All the information is then used to build maps of the target networks.
Information Gathering Techniques Used:
Prebuilt
A precompiled version is available for each release.
If your operating environment supports Snap, you can click here to install, or perform the following from the command-line:
sudo snap install amass
On Kali, follow these steps to install Snap and Amass + use AppArmor (for autoload):
Code:
sudo apt install snapd
sudo systemctl start snapd
sudo systemctl enable snapd
sudo systemctl start apparmor
sudo systemctl enable apparmor
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Add the Snap bin directory to your PATH:
Code:
export PATH=$PATH:/snap/bin
Periodically, execute the following command to update all your snap packages:
Code:
sudo snap refresh
Information Gathering Techniques Used:
- DNS: Basic enumeration, Brute forcing (upon request), Reverse DNS sweeping, Subdomain name alterations/permutations, Zone transfers (upon request)
- Scraping: Ask, Baidu, Bing, CommonCrawl, DNSDB, DNSDumpster, DNSTable, Dogpile, Exalead, FindSubdomains, Google, IPv4Info, Netcraft, PTRArchive, Riddler, SiteDossier, ThreatCrowd, VirusTotal, Yahoo
- Certificates: Active pulls (upon request), Censys, CertDB, CertSpotter, Crtsh, Entrust
- APIs: BinaryEdge, BufferOver, CIRCL, HackerTarget, PassiveTotal, Robtex, SecurityTrails, Shodan, Twitter, Umbrella, URLScan
- Web Archives: ArchiveIt, ArchiveToday, Arquivo, LoCArchive, OpenUKArchive, UKGovArchive, Wayback
Prebuilt
A precompiled version is available for each release.
If your operating environment supports Snap, you can click here to install, or perform the following from the command-line:
sudo snap install amass
On Kali, follow these steps to install Snap and Amass + use AppArmor (for autoload):
Code:
sudo apt install snapd
sudo systemctl start snapd
sudo systemctl enable snapd
sudo systemctl start apparmor
sudo systemctl enable apparmor
Click to expand...
Click to expand...
Add the Snap bin directory to your PATH:
Code:
export PATH=$PATH:/snap/bin
Periodically, execute the following command to update all your snap packages:
Code:
sudo snap refresh