A Web Path Scanner: DirSearch

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We are covering dirsearch tutorial in this post. it’s a simple command-line python based website directory/path scanner which can brute-force any targeted site for it’s directory and files. This is very common job in pentesting and dirsearch do this job much faster then the traditional DIRB. It is a mush have tool in Kali Linux machine.

dirsearch tutorial
1. We need to clone this tool from github for this we need to open Terminal and type following command :
git clone https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch

Just like following screenshot

2. Or we can download and save DirSearch directly from GitHub by clicking This Link.

3. Once the download or cloning is complete browse to the diesearch directory and run dirsearch by typing following command :

./dirsearch.py -u google.com -e aspx,php

Here we are scanning google.com  for an example. Following screenshot shows the output of Google scanning :

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