Getting Started with webprobe
Gerrishon Sirere
Posted on August 31, 2022
webprobe
Nifty and sophisticated web path scanner
A sophisticated web path scanner designed for the most descerning bug bounty hunters.
This CLI brute forces directories and files in webservers.
Installation & Usage
Requirement: python 3.8 or higher
- Install with PyPi:
pip install webprobe
How to use
Some common examples on how to use webprobe.
💡 If you need to see a list of all options, just use the -h | --help
argument.
To use multiple wordlists, you can separate your wordlists with commas. Example: wordlist1.txt,wordlist2.txt
Simple usage
webprobe -u https://example.com
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://exaple.com -w /path/to/wordlist
Pausing progress
You can pause the scanning progress with CTRL+C from here, you can save the progress (and continue later), skip the current target, or skip the current sub-directory.
Recursion
- Brutforcing recursively can be achieved using
-r
or--recursive
flag.
For example, if webprobe finds admin/
, it will brute-force admin/*
(*
is where it brute forces).
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com -r
- You can set the max recursion depth with
--recursion-depth
and status codes to recurse with--recursion-status
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com -r --recursion-depth 3 --recursion-status 200-39
You can brute force recursively all found paths, not just paths end with
/
using--force-recursive
flag.You can recursively brute-force all depths of a path (
a/b/c
=> adda/
,a/b/
) using--deep-recursive
flag.If there are sub-directories that you do not want to brute-force recursively use
--exclude-subdirs
flag.
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com -r --exclude-subdirs image/,media/,css/
Threads
Thread number (-t | --threads
) reflects the number of separated brute force processes. The bigger the thread number, the faster webprobe runs. By default, the number of threads is 25, but you can increase it if you want to speed up the progress.
However, the speed still depends on the response time of the server.
💡 keep the threads number within a reasonable range because it can cause DoS (Denial of Service).
webprobe -e php,htm,js,bak,zip,tgz,txt -u https://example.com -t 20
Filters
Use -i | --include-status and -x | --exclude-status flags to select allowed and not allowed response status-codes
For more advanced filters: --exclude-sizes, --exclude-texts, --exclude-regexps, --exclude-redirects and --exclude-response
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com --exclude-sizes 1B,243KB
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com --exclude-texts "403 Forbidden"
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com --exclude-regexps "^Error$"
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com --exclude-redirects "https://(.*).okta.com/*"
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com --exclude-response /error.html
Scan sub-directories
- You can scan a list of sub-directories with --subdirs flag.
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com --subdirs /,admin/,folder/
Proxies
- Webprobe supports both SOCKS and HTTP proxy. You can enlist a proxy server or a list of proxy servers from a file.
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com --proxy 127.0.0.1:8080
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com --proxy socks5://10.10.0.1:8080
webprobe -e php,html,js -u https://example.com --proxylist proxyservers.txt
More example commands
cat urls.txt | python3 webprobe --stdin
webprobe -u https://example.com --max-time 360
webprobe -u https://example.com --auth admin:pass --auth-type basic
webprobe -u https://example.com --header-list rate-limit-bypasses.txt
Reports
Supported report formats are: simple, plain, json, xml, md, csv, html, sqlite
💡 We will be adding yaml
soon
webprobe -e php -l URLs.txt --format plain -o report.txt
webprobe -e php -u https://example.com --format html -o example.json
License📑
This software is licensed under the MIT License
. See the License file in the top distribution directory for the full license text.
Donate🎁
In order to for us to maintain this project and grow our community of contributors.
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Code of Conduct
Code of Conduct is adapted from the Contributor Covenant, version 1.2.0 available at Code of Conduct
Posted on August 31, 2022
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