Finding files and folders with DirBuster
DirBuster is a tool created to discover, by brute force, the existing files and directories in a web server. We will use it in this recipe to search for a specific list of files and directories.
Getting ready
We will use a text file that contains the list of words that we will ask DirBuster to look for. Create a text file dictionary.txt containing the following:
info server-status server-info cgi-bin robots.txt phpmyadmin admin login
How to do it...
Navigate to Applications | Kali Linux | Web Ap plications | Web Crawlers | dirbuster:
On the DirBuster's window, set the target URL to
http://192.168.56.102/.Set the number of threads to 20.
Select List based brute force and click on Browse.
In the browsing window, select the file we just created (
dictionary.txt).Uncheck the Be Recursive option.
For this recipe, we will leave the rest of options at their defaults.
Click on Start.
If we go to the Results tab, we will see that DirBuster has found at least two of the...
