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34 M Wordlist Subdomain Brute-Force

This workflow can brute-force the root domain used as an input in the search for the associated hostnames. This can give you valuable information about the hostnames and thus give you better insight into your attack surface.

Complexity: basic

Category: Attack Surface Management

Workflow

34 M Wordlist Subdomain Brute-Force workflow in Trickest workflow editor

34 M Wordlist Subdomain Brute-Force

Tools

Setup

You can set up this workflow by changing following input value:

  • ROOT DOMAIN - provide root domain, e.g. trickest.com, as a target
Workflow targets setup in the workflow editor

Workflow Targets Setup

Execution and results

After setup, workflow is ready to be executed. Once workflow's last node, recursively-cat-all script, is finished result can be viewed and downloaded.

recursively-cat-all script will contain all of the hostnames found.

Workflow results of the 34 M Wordlist Subdomain brute-force

Results

Build this workflow in steps

Unzipping wordlist with unzip-to-out

Firstly, we will download the zip wordlist from https://localdomain.pw/subdomain-bruteforce-list/all.txt.zip as it contains most comprehensive and all-around wordlist.

unziping external zip file using unzip-to-out in Trickest workflow editor

unziping external zip file using unzip-to-out

Getting wordlist with cat-all-in

As the output from unzip-to-out is folder with all of the files contained in zip used as an input, we will use cat-all-in to cat all of the files into one file. Output should be inside of out/output.txt which is being used by file output port.

cat-ing all of the files inside of zip in the workflow editor

cat-ing all of the files inside of zip

Create potential hostnames with mksub

Now that we have the wordlist, we can use mksub to merge the wordlist with our root domain.

Firstly, we will set the string to the mksub domain parameter. And connect the previously added cat-all-in output to mksub wordlist parameter.

creation of potential hostnames with mksub and root domains in the workflow editor

creation of potential hostnames with mksub and root domains

With mksub we have all of our potential hostnames consisting of the root domain and potential wordlist, which we unzipped previously. Time to resolve!

Resolve with puredns

It is time to resolve our potential hostnames. Puredns has two types of modes, and in this case, as we have already created hostnames, we will use the resolve mode. Additionally, puredns uses two resolver file inputs to resolve all of the hostnames used as input. One of our project's trickest/resolvers is focused on that, so we can use the URL inputs for puredns which will be downloaded and used in execution time.

Firstly, we will connect the wordlist from mksub and enable the resolve mode

enabiling resolve mode and wordlist to be resolved in the workflow editor

enabiling resolve mode and wordlist to be resolved

Second, we will add resolvers and resolvers-trusted URLs from repository.

adding resolver file URLs to puredns in the workflow editor

adding resolver file URLs to puredns

Additionally, as we are in resolve mode, the domain parameter is unnecessary, so we can disable it through the right sidebar.

disabling domain parameter on puredns in the workflow editor

disabling domain parameter on puredns

Get results with recursively-cat-all

Finally, we will use the recursively-cat-all script, which will cat all of the files into one recursively.

cat-ing output recursively from puredns in the workflow editor

cat-ing output recursively from puredns

Try it out!

This workflow is available in the Library, you can copy it and execute it immediately!

Improve this workflow

  • Changing machine type of tools to speed up the execution
  • Adding more wordlist files and connecting them to the cat-all-in script node
  • Enabling threads the parameter in puredns for faster execution