Pown Buster

Pown Buster is a web file and folder discovery tool.

Pown Buster is written such as that none of the requests and internal scheduling mechanisms is blocking. Although I was initially sceptical that this is going to lead to significant performance improvements, it turns out that it does. I compared the performance to other tools written in more concurrent languages such as go. It appears that Pown Buster is at least 6 times faster in default configuration when compared to these tools.

That being said, speed is not always a good thing. In my own tests, many servers will start throwing 5xx errors if you are sending too fast. You can control the concurrency of the tool using –request-concurrency and –load-concurrency options. The former caps how many concurrent requests you would like to send to the server as the name suggests. The later is slightly trickier. This option indicates how many concurrent operations can be pre-loaded in advance. The higher the number the more Promises will be instantiated in advance increasing the performance but at the same time increasing the memory profile. The lower the number the less memory will be used but more operations have to fetch at some intermediary point. If you are dealing with huge-dictionaries this option helps control the tool behaviour without making your hardware sweat. In normal circumstances, you may want to leave this option alone and use –request-concurrency instead.

If installed globally as part of Pown.js invoke like this:

Otherwise, install this module from the root of your project:

Once done, invoke pown buster like this:

Usage

pown buster [options] <url>



Web file and directory bruteforcer (a.k.a dirbuster)



Options:

  --version                   Show version number  [boolean]

  --debug                     Debug mode  [boolean]

  --help                      Show help  [boolean]

  --request-method, -X        Request method  [string] [default: "GET"]

  --name-dictionary, -n       Name dictionary file  [string]

  --extension-dictionary, -e  Extension dictionary file  [string]

  --name-prefix               Name prefix  [string] [default: "/"]

  --name-suffix               Name suffix  [string] [default: ""]

  --extension-prefix          Extension prefix  [string] [default: "."]

  --extension-suffix          Extension suffix  [string] [default: ""]

  --request-concurrency, -r   The number of request to run concurrently  [string] [default: Infinity]

  --load-concurrency, -l      The number of assync operations to run concurrently  [string] [default: Infinity]

  --header, -H                Set header  [array] [default: []]

  --timeout, -t               Request timeout in milliseconds  [number] [default: 30000]

  --all, -y                   Display all results  [boolean] [default: false]

  --yes, -y                   Answer yes to all questions  [boolean] [default: false]

  --blessed, -b               Start with blessed ui  [boolean] [default: false]



Examples:

  pown buster -X HEAD -n words.txt http://target                                             Send requests using the HEAD HTTP method

  pown buster -H 'Authorization: Basic YWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuc2VzYW1l' -n words.txt http://target  Send basic authentication headers

  pown buster -b --all -n words.txt http://target                                            Start buster but also open the results in nice text user interface

Pown Buster comes with an optional text interface which comes handy when investigating all results in detail. Use either -b or –blessed options to activate it. Using this feature will not result in performance degradation.

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