Finding files and folders with DirBuster

DirBuster is a tool created to discover, by brute force, the existing files and directories in a web server. We will use it in this recipe to search for a specific list of files and directories.

Getting ready

We will use a text file that contains the list of words that we will ask DirBuster to look for. Create a text file dictionary.txt containing the following:

info
server-status
server-info
cgi-bin
robots.txt
phpmyadmin
admin
login

How to do it...

  1. Navigate to Applications | Kali Linux | Web Applications | Web Crawlers | dirbuster:
    How to do it...
  2. On the DirBuster's window, set the target URL to http://192.168.56.102/.
  3. Set the ...

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