Installation of Dirsearch Tool in Kali Linux
Step 1: Fire up your Kali Linux terminal and move to Desktop using the following command.
cd Desktop
Step 2: You are on Desktop now create a new directory called Dirsearch using the following command. In this directory, we will complete the installation of the Dirsearch tool.
mkdir Dirsearch cd Dirsearch
Step 3: Now you have to install the tool. You have to clone the tool from Github.
git clone https://github.com/maurosoria/dirsearch.git
Step 4: The tool has been downloaded successfully in the dirsearch directory. Now list out the contents of the tool by using the below command.
ls
Step 5: You can observe that there is a new directory created of the dirsearch tool that has been generated while we were installing the tool.Now move to that directory using the below command:
cd dirsearch
Step 6: Download the required packages for running the tool, use the following command.
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Step 7: Now we are done with our installation, Use the below command to view the help (gives better understanding of tool) index of the tool.
python3 dirsearch.py --help
How to Find Hidden Web Directories with Dirsearch
Dirsearch tool is a Python language-based tool, which is command-line only. Dirsearch lights when it comes to recursive scanning, so for every directory it identifies, it will go back through and crawl the directory for some additional directories. Dirsearch tool is an advanced command-line tool designed to brute-force directories and files in web servers or web path scanners. As Dirsearch is an advanced tool, it allows hackers to perform a complex web directories discovery, with a customized wordlist, impressive performance, speed, high accuracy, advanced correction, and modern brute-force techniques with relevant outputs.