Syborg is a Recursive DNS Domain Enumerator which is neither active nor completely passive. This tool simply constructs a domain name and queries it with a specified DNS Server.
Syborg has a Dead-end Avoidance system inspired from @Tomnomnom's ettu.
When you run subdomain enumeration with some of the tools, most of them passively query public records like virustotal
, crtsh
or censys
. This enumeration technique is really fast and helps to find out a lot of domains in much less time.
However, there are some domains that may not be mentioned in these public records. In order to find those domains, Syborg interacts with the nameservers and recursively brute-forces subdomain from the DNS until it's queue is empty.
Image Credits: Carbon
As mentioned on ettu's page, I quote:
Ordinarily if there are no records to return for a DNS name you might expect an
NXDOMAIN
error:▶ host four.tomnomnom.uk Host four.tomnomnom.uk not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)You may have noticed that sometimes you get an empty response instead though:
▶ host three.tomnomnom.ukThe difference in the latter case is often that another name - one that has your queried name as a suffix - exists and has records to return
▶ host one.two.three.tomnomnom.uk one.two.three.tomnomnom.uk has address 46.101.59.42This difference in response can be used to help avoid dead-ends in recursive DNS brute-forcing by not recursing in the former situation:
▶ echo -e "www\none\ntwo\nthree" | ettu tomnomnom.uk one.two.three.tomnomnom.uk
Syborg incorporates all of these functionalities with simple concurrency and recursion.
Python 3.x (Recommended)
Python 2.x (Not tested)
Clone the repo using the git clone
command as follows:
git clone https://github.com/MilindPurswani/Syborg.git
Resolve the Dependencies:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 syborg.py yahoo.com
Although Syborg can discover many subdomains, it is still a brute-forcer after all (although not dumb). So, the more domain specific the wordlist, the less time to produce optimal results. In order to generate optimal list, it is recommended to generate a passive scan wordlist. One such way of doing that is as follows:
assetfinder --subs-only media.yahoo.com | tok -delim-exceptions=- | sort -u | tee -a media.yahoo.com-wordlist.txt
In order to execute this command, one should have installed assetfinder
and tok
Or, one can also you any other passive subdomain enumerator such as Sublist3r
by executing following command
python sublist3r.py -d media.yahoo.com -o domains.txt
cat domains.txt | sed 's/[.]/\n/g' | sort -u | tee -a media.yahoo.com-wordlist.txt
Then execute Syborg as follows:
python3 syborg.py media.yahoo.com -w media.yahoo.com-wordlist.txt -c 20 -o results.txt -v
It doesn't depend on what passive enumeration tool is used, the whole point is to generate a domain specific wordlist for the current asset.
Here is the list of arguments that can be used:
usage: syborg.py [-h] [-d DNS] [-w WORDLIST] [-o OUTPUT] [-c CONCURRENCY] [-v]
domain
positional arguments:
domain domain name of the target
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-d DNS, --dns DNS DNS Server to be used (default: 8.8.8.8)
-w WORDLIST, --wordlist WORDLIST Specify a custom wordlist (default: wordlist.txt)
-o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT Specify the output file (default: results-domain.txt)
-c CONCURRENCY, --concurrency CONCURRENCY Specify the level of concurrency (default: 10)
-v, --verbose increase output verbosity
At times, it is also possible that Syborg will hit High CPU Usage and that can cost you a lot if you are trying to use this tool on your VPS. Therefore to limit that use another utility called Cpulimit
cpulimit -l 50 -p $(pgrep python3)
This tool can be downloaded as follows:
sudo apt install cpulimit
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@nahamsec for his invaluable contribution towards the community by live streams. Check out his twitch channel https://twitch.tv/nahamsec
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@tomnomnom for making such awesome tools and sharing with everyone. Be sure to check out his twitch https://www.twitch.tv/tomnomnomuk
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@GP89 for the
FileQueue
lib that resolved high memory consumption problem with Syborg.