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Directory Fuzzing

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Now that we understand the concept of Web Fuzzing and know our wordlist, we should be ready to start using ffuf to find website directories.

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Ffuf is pre-installed on your PwnBox instance. If you want to use it on your own machine, you can either use "apt install ffuf -y" or download it and use it from its GitHub Repoarrow-up-right. As a new user of this tool, we will start by issuing the ffuf -h command to see how the tools can be used:

$ ffuf -h

HTTP OPTIONS:
  -H               Header `"Name: Value"`, separated by colon. Multiple -H flags are accepted.
  -X               HTTP method to use (default: GET)
  -b               Cookie data `"NAME1=VALUE1; NAME2=VALUE2"` for copy as curl functionality.
  -d               POST data
  -recursion       Scan recursively. Only FUZZ keyword is supported, and URL (-u) has to end in it. (default: false)
  -recursion-depth Maximum recursion depth. (default: 0)
  -u               Target URL
...SNIP...

MATCHER OPTIONS:
  -mc              Match HTTP status codes, or "all" for everything. (default: 200,204,301,302,307,401,403)
  -ms              Match HTTP response size
...SNIP...

FILTER OPTIONS:
  -fc              Filter HTTP status codes from response. Comma separated list of codes and ranges
  -fs              Filter HTTP response size. Comma separated list of sizes and ranges
...SNIP...

INPUT OPTIONS:
...SNIP...
  -w               Wordlist file path and (optional) keyword separated by colon. eg. '/path/to/wordlist:KEYWORD'

OUTPUT OPTIONS:
  -o               Write output to file
...SNIP...

EXAMPLE USAGE:
  Fuzz file paths from wordlist.txt, match all responses but filter out those with content-size 42.
  Colored, verbose output.
    ffuf -w wordlist.txt -u https://example.org/FUZZ -mc all -fs 42 -c -v
...SNIP...

As we can see, the help output is quite large, so we only kept the options that may become relevant for us in this module.

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Directory Fuzzing

As we can see from the example above, the main two options are -w for wordlists and -u for the URL. We can assign a wordlist to a keyword to refer to it where we want to fuzz. For example, we can pick our wordlist and assign the keyword FUZZ to it by adding :FUZZ after it:

Next, as we want to be fuzzing for web directories, we can place the FUZZ keyword where the directory would be within our URL, with:

Now, let's start our target in the question below and run our final command on it:

We see that ffuf tested for almost 90k URLs in less than 10 seconds. This speed may vary depending on your internet speed and ping if you used ffuf on your machine, but it should still be extremely fast.

We can even make it go faster if we are in a hurry by increasing the number of threads to 200, for example, with -t 200, but this is not recommended, especially when used on a remote site, as it may disrupt it, and cause a Denial of Service, or bring down your internet connection in severe cases. We do get a couple of hits, and we can visit one of them to verify that it exists:

We get an empty page, indicating that the directory does not have a dedicated page, but also shows that we do have access to it, as we do not get an HTTP code 404 Not Found or 403 Access Denied. In the next section, we will look for pages under this directory to see whether it is really empty or has hidden files and pages.

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