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What is it?

Subdomain discovery is the process of finding what subdomains exist given a domain name. For example, the domain tcm-sec.com might have the subdomains dev.tcm-sec.com and blog.tcm-sec.com.

Wordlists

Assetnote

Seclists

Passive discovery

  • Sublistr

  • Google

Active discovery

  • Sublistr

  • DNSRecon

  • Amass

  • Ffuf

ffuf -u <target> -w /path/to/wordlist.txt -H "Host: FUZZ.target.com" -fs <size-filter>

https://wordlists-cdn.assetnote.io/data/manual/best-dns-wordlist.txt
/Seclists/Discovery/DNS/<multiple lists here>
https://crt.sh/