DNSTake
A fast tool to check missing hosted DNS zones that can lead to subdomain takeover.
What is a DNS takeover?
DNS takeover vulnerabilities occur when a subdomain (subdomain.example.com) or domain has its authoritative nameserver set to a provider (e.g. AWS Route 53, Akamai, Microsoft Azure, etc.) but the hosted zone has been removed or deleted. Consequently, when making a request for DNS records the server responds with a SERVFAIL
error. This allows an attacker to create the missing hosted zone on the service that was being used and thus control all DNS records for that (sub)domain.ยน
Installation
from Binary
The ez way! You can download a pre-built binary from releases page, just unpack and run!
from Source
NOTE: Go 1.16+ compiler should be installed & configured! |
Very quick & clean!
โถ go install github.com/pwnesia/dnstake/cmd/dnstake@latest
โ or
Manual building executable from source code:
โถ git clone https://github.com/pwnesia/dnstake
โถ cd dnstake/cmd/dnstake
โถ go build .
โถ (sudo) mv dnstake /usr/local/bin
Usage
$ dnstake -h
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Usage:
[stdin] | dnstake [options]
dnstake -t HOSTNAME [options]
Options:
-t, --target <HOST/FILE> Define single target host/list to check
-c, --concurrent <i> Set the concurrency level (default: 25)
-s, --silent Suppress errors and/or clean output
-o, --output <FILE> Save vulnerable hosts to FILE
-h, --help Display its help
Examples:
dnstake -t (sub.)domain.tld
dnstake -t hosts.txt
dnstake -t hosts.txt -o ./dnstake.out
cat hosts.txt | dnstake
subfinder -silent -d domain.tld | dnstake
Workflow
DNSTake use RetryableDNS client library to send DNS queries. Initial engagement using Google & Cloudflare DNS as the resolver, then check & fingerprinting the nameservers of target host โ if there is one, it will resolving the target host again with its nameserver IPs as resolver, if it gets weird DNS status response (other than NOERROR
/NXDOMAIN
), then it's vulnerable to be taken over. More or less like this in form of a diagram.
Currently supported DNS providers, see here.
References
- [1] https://github.com/indianajson/can-i-take-over-dns#what-is-a-dns-takeover
- https://0xpatrik.com/subdomain-takeover-ns/
License
DNSTake is distributed under MIT. See LICENSE
.