RecurseBuster
It's like gobuster, but recursive!
I wanted a recursive directory brute forcer that was fast, and had certain features (like header blacklisting, and recursion). It didn't exist, so I started writing this. In reality, I'll probably merge a lot of the functionality into github.com/swarley7/gograbber since that solves a similar problem and has cool features that I don't want to implement (phantomjs, ugh). For now, it will do.
Installation
Ye olde go get install should work. Same command to update:
go get -u github.com/c-sto/recursebuster
Important releases will also be tagged and uploaded.
NOTE Since tagged releases have started, some old versions which have been obtained with go get -u seem to be broken. Removing the folder and starting again seems to work:
rm -rf $GOPATH/src/github.com/c-sto/recursebuster
rm $GOPATH/bin/recursebuster
go get -u github.com/c-sto/recursebuster
Usage
I wanted it to be fairly straightforward, but scope creep etc. Basic usage is just like gobuster:
recursebuster -u https://google.com -w wordlist.txt
This will run a recursive-HEAD-spider-assisted search with a single thread on google.com using the wordlist specified above. Results will print to screen, but more importantly, will be written to a file 'busted.txt'.
Features
HEAD Based Checks
For servers the support it, HEAD based checks speed up content discovery considerably, since no body is required to be transferred. The default logic is to use a HEAD request to determine if something exists. If it seems to exist, a GET is sent to retrieve and verify. If there are sensitive pages that perform actions (AKA, ones that don't really follow the HTTP Verb Spec), a file containing a list of exact URLS that should not requested can be blacklisted with the -blacklist flag.
Recursion
When a directory is identified, it gets added to the queue to be brute-forced. By default, one directory is brute-forced at a time, however you can 'cancel' a directory interactively by hitting 'ctrl+x' if in UI mode. If you're not in UI mode (-noui), you need to have added the directory to the blacklist.
Spider Assistance
Since we are getting the page content anyway, why not use it to our advantage? Some basic checks are done to look for links within the HTML response. The links are added, and any directories identified added too. By default, only the supplied host is whitelisted, so any links that go off-site (rather, to a different domain) are ignored. You can specify a file that contains a list of whitelisted domains that you are OK with including into the spider with the -whitelist flag.
Speed
Gobuster is pretty fast when you smash -t 200, but who would do that? One of my goals for this was to keep performance on-par with gobuster where possible. On most webservers, recursebuster seems to be faster, even though it sends both a HEAD and a GET request. This means you will hit WAF limits really quickly, and is why by default it's -t 1.
Proxy options
The ability to use a proxy is fairly useful in several situations. Not having to drop tools on a host in order to scan through it is always useful - recursebuster also works through burp if you specify it as a http proxy. When using Recursebuster to supplement the burp sitemap - use the -stitemap option to send only the 'found' or interesting responses to burp, this should help avoid filling up your HTTP History with 404's.
Usage args
Idk why you might want these, just run it with -h 2>&1 and grep for the keyword. Here they are anyway:
-ajax
Add the X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest header to all requests
-all
Show, and write the result of all checks
-appendslash
Append a / to all directory bruteforce requests (like extension, but slash instead of .yourthing)
-auth string
Basic auth. Supply this with the base64 encoded portion to be placed after the word 'Basic' in the Authorization header.
-bad string
Responses to consider 'bad' or 'not found'. Comma-separated. This works the opposite way of gobuster! (default "404")
-badheader value
Check for presence of this header. If an exact match is found, the response is considered bad.Supply as key:value. Can specify multiple - eg '-badheader Location:cats -badheader X-ATT-DeviceId:XXXXX'
-blacklist string
Blacklist of prefixes to not check. Will not check on exact matches.
-canary string
Custom value to use to check for wildcards
-clean
Output clean URLs to the output file for easy loading into other tools and whatnot.
-cookies string
Any cookies to include with requests. This is smashed into the cookies header, so copy straight from burp I guess.
-debug
Enable debugging
-ext string
Extensions to append to checks. Multiple extensions can be specified, comma separate them.
-headers value
Additional headers to include with request. Supply as key:value. Can specify multiple - eg '-headers X-Forwarded-For:127.0.01 -headers X-ATT-DeviceId:XXXXX'
-https
Use HTTPS instead of HTTP.
-iL string
File to use as an input list of URL's to start from
-k Ignore SSL check
-len
Show, and write the length of the response
-methods string
Methods to use for checks. Multiple methods can be specified, comma separate them. Requests will be sent with an empty body (unless body is specified) (default "GET")
-nobase
Don't perform a request to the base URL
-noget
Do not perform a GET request (only use HEAD request/response)
-nohead
Don't optimize GET requests with a HEAD (only send the GET)
-norecursion
Disable recursion, just work on the specified directory. Also disables spider function.
-nospider
Don't search the page body for links, and directories to add to the spider queue.
-nostartstop
Don't show start/stop info messages
-nostatus
Don't print status info (for if it messes with the terminal)
-noui
Don't use sexy ui
-nowildcard
Don't perform wildcard checks for soft 404 detection
-o string
Local file to dump into (default "./busted.txt")
-proxy string
Proxy configuration options in the form ip:port eg: 127.0.0.1:9050. Note! If you want this to work with burp/use it with a HTTP proxy, specify as http://ip:port
-ratio float
Similarity ratio to the 404 canary page. (default 0.95)
-redirect
Follow redirects
-sitemap
Send 'good' requests to the configured proxy. Requires the proxy flag to be set. ***NOTE: with this option, the proxy is ONLY used for good requests - all other requests go out as normal!***
-t int
Number of concurrent threads (default 1)
-timeout int
Timeout (seconds) for HTTP/TCP connections (default 20)
-u string
Url to spider
-ua string
User agent to use when sending requests. (default "RecurseBuster/1.5.11")
-v int
Verbosity level for output messages.
-version
Show version number and exit
-w string
Wordlist to use for bruteforce. Blank for spider only
-whitelist string
Whitelist of domains to include in brute-force
Credits:
OJ/TheColonial: Hack the planet!!!!
Swarley: Hack the planet!!!!!
Hackers: Hack the planet!!!!