Sep 19, 2022

OWASP Amass Project

The OWASP Amass Project performs network mapping of attack surfaces and external asset discovery using open source information gathering and active reconnaissance techniques.

This tool maintains a strong focus on DNS, HTTP and SSL/TLS data discovering and scrapping. To do this, it has its own techniques and provides several integrations with different API services like (spoiler alert!) the SecurityTrails API.

Amass enum can be executed under the context of a passive or an active configuration mode. The passive mode is much quicker, but Amass will not validate DNS information, for example by resolving the subdomains.


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