In the previous recipe, we discussed how to find open ports on a network IP or domain name. We often see developers running web servers on different ports. Sometimes developers may also leave directories misconfigured that may contain juicy information for us. We have already covered dirsearch in the previous chapter; here we will look at alternatives.
The dirb
tool is a well-known tool that can be used to brute force open directories. Although it is generally slow and does not support multi-threading, it is still a great way to find directories/subdirectories that may have been left open due to a misconfiguration.
Type the following command to fire up the tool:
dirb https://domain.com
The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command: