Information Gathering
Reconnaissance, OSINT, DNS, network discovery and fingerprinting. · 45 commands
Nmap
mediumThe de-facto network mapper and port/service scanner.
Masscan
highInternet-scale asynchronous TCP port scanner.
whois
passiveQuery domain/IP registration records.
dig
passiveFlexible DNS lookup utility.
dnsenum
lowDNS enumeration: records, zone transfers, brute force.
dnsrecon
lowScriptable DNS reconnaissance and enumeration.
theHarvester
passiveGather emails, subdomains and hosts from public sources.
Recon-ng
passiveModular OSINT reconnaissance framework.
OWASP Amass
lowIn-depth attack-surface mapping & subdomain enumeration.
subfinder
passiveFast passive subdomain discovery.
Sublist3r
passiveSubdomain enumeration via search engines.
netdiscover
mediumActive/passive ARP host discovery on a LAN.
arp-scan
mediumFast ARP-based host discovery and MAC fingerprinting.
enum4linux
mediumEnumerate information from Windows/Samba (SMB) hosts.
smbclient
lowFTP-like client for SMB/CIFS shares.
snmpwalk
lowWalk an SNMP tree to extract device data.
WhatWeb
lowIdentify web technologies behind a site.
wafw00f
lowDetect and fingerprint web application firewalls.
fierce
lowDNS reconnaissance to locate non-contiguous IP space.
fping
lowFast, parallel ICMP host sweeping.
DMitry
lowDeepmagic information gathering tool.
SpiderFoot
lowAutomated OSINT collection with 200+ modules.
Maltego
passiveVisual link-analysis OSINT platform.
Sherlock
passiveHunt usernames across social networks.
assetfinder
passiveFind domains/subdomains related to a target.
gau (getallurls)
passiveFetch known URLs from web archives.
waybackurls
passivePull a domain’s URLs from the Wayback Machine.
gowitness
lowHeadless-Chrome web screenshotting.
EyeWitness
lowScreenshot sites and group by similarity.
onesixtyone
lowFast SNMP community-string scanner.
snmp-check
lowHuman-readable SNMP enumeration.
smtp-user-enum
lowEnumerate valid users via SMTP.
Swaks
lowSwiss-army knife for SMTP testing.
nbtscan
lowScan NetBIOS name information.
rpcclient
lowQuery MS-RPC on Windows/Samba hosts.
ldapsearch
lowQuery LDAP / Active Directory.
hping3
mediumCustom TCP/IP packet crafter & scanner.
p0f
passivePassive OS/network fingerprinting.
wig
lowWebApp Information Gatherer (CMS detect).
Metagoofil
passiveHarvest metadata from public documents.
httpx
lowFast, multi-purpose HTTP probing toolkit.
naabu
mediumFast SYN/CONNECT port scanner in Go.
dnsx
passiveFast, multi-purpose DNS toolkit.
Shodan CLI
passiveQuery the Shodan internet-scan database.
Knockpy
lowSubdomain scanner via brute force + sources.