DirSearch (Go)
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- GPLv3
- Programming language
- Golang
- Author
- Simone Margaritelli
- Latest release
- No release found
- Latest release date
- Unknown
Project health
Why this tool?
DirSearch is a Go implementation of the original dirsearch tool written by Mauro Soria. It is used to discover directories by using common names and guessing (fuzzing).
Background information
DirSearch is the very first tool written in Go by the author. For that reason, the GitHub project shows a Baby Gopher badge.
Usage and audience
DirSearch (Go) is commonly used for information gathering, penetration testing, or security assessment. Target users for this tool are pentesters and security professionals.
Features
- Command line interface
Example usage and output
-200only
If enabled, will only display responses with 200 status code.
-consumers int
Number of concurrent consumers. (default 8)
-ext string
File extension. (default "php")
-maxerrors int
Maximum number of errors to get before killing the program. (default 20)
-url string
Base URL to start enumeration from.
-wordlist string
Wordlist file to use for enumeration. (default "dict.txt")
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
DirSearch (Go) is known to work on Linux.
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a directory traversal fuzzer.