Tool Documentation:

dnsenum Usage Example

Don’t do a reverse lookup (–noreverse) and save the output to a file (-o mydomain.xml) for the domain example.com:

root@kali:~# dnsenum --noreverse -o mydomain.xml example.com
dnsenum VERSION:1.2.4

-----   example.com   -----


Host's addresses:
__________________

example.com.                             392      IN    A        93.184.216.119


Name Servers:
______________

b.iana-servers.net.                      122      IN    A        199.43.133.53
a.iana-servers.net.                      122      IN    A        199.43.132.53


Mail (MX) Servers:
___________________


Packages and Binaries:

dnsenum

Dnsenum is a multithreaded perl script to enumerate DNS information of a domain and to discover non-contiguous ip blocks. The main purpose of Dnsenum is to gather as much information as possible about a domain. The program currently performs the following operations:

  • Get the host’s addresses (A record).
  • Get the namservers (threaded).
  • Get the MX record (threaded).
  • Perform axfr queries on nameservers and get BIND versions(threaded).
  • Get extra names and subdomains via google scraping (google query = “allinurl: -www site:domain”).
  • Brute force subdomains from file, can also perform recursion on subdomain that have NS records (all threaded).
  • Calculate C class domain network ranges and perform whois queries on them (threaded).
  • Perform reverse lookups on netranges (C class or/and whois netranges) (threaded).
  • Write to domain_ips.txt file ip-blocks.

This program is useful for pentesters, ethical hackers and forensics experts. It also can be used for security tests.

Installed size: 87 KB
How to install: sudo apt install dnsenum

Dependencies:
  • libhtml-parser-perl
  • libnet-dns-perl
  • libnet-ip-perl
  • libnet-netmask-perl
  • libnet-whois-ip-perl
  • libstring-random-perl
  • libwww-mechanize-perl
  • libxml-writer-perl
  • perl
dnsenum
  • multithread script to enumerate information on a domain and to discover non-contiguous IP blocks
root@kali:~# dnsenum -h
dnsenum VERSION:1.2.6
Usage: dnsenum [Options] <domain>
[Options]:
Note: If no -f tag supplied will default to /usr/share/dnsenum/dns.txt or
the dns.txt file in the same directory as dnsenum
GENERAL OPTIONS:
  --dnsserver 	<server>
			Use this DNS server for A, NS and MX queries.
  --enum		Shortcut option equivalent to --threads 5 -s 15 -w.
  -h, --help		Print this help message.
  --noreverse		Skip the reverse lookup operations.
  --nocolor		Disable ANSIColor output.
  --private		Show and save private ips at the end of the file domain_ips.txt.
  --subfile <file>	Write all valid subdomains to this file.
  -t, --timeout <value>	The tcp and udp timeout values in seconds (default: 10s).
  --threads <value>	The number of threads that will perform different queries.
  -v, --verbose		Be verbose: show all the progress and all the error messages.
GOOGLE SCRAPING OPTIONS:
  -p, --pages <value>	The number of google search pages to process when scraping names,
			the default is 5 pages, the -s switch must be specified.
  -s, --scrap <value>	The maximum number of subdomains that will be scraped from Google (default 15).
BRUTE FORCE OPTIONS:
  -f, --file <file>	Read subdomains from this file to perform brute force. (Takes priority over default dns.txt)
  -u, --update	<a|g|r|z>
			Update the file specified with the -f switch with valid subdomains.
	a (all)		Update using all results.
	g		Update using only google scraping results.
	r		Update using only reverse lookup results.
	z		Update using only zonetransfer results.
  -r, --recursion	Recursion on subdomains, brute force all discovered subdomains that have an NS record.
WHOIS NETRANGE OPTIONS:
  -d, --delay <value>	The maximum value of seconds to wait between whois queries, the value is defined randomly, default: 3s.
  -w, --whois		Perform the whois queries on c class network ranges.
			 **Warning**: this can generate very large netranges and it will take lot of time to perform reverse lookups.
REVERSE LOOKUP OPTIONS:
  -e, --exclude	<regexp>
			Exclude PTR records that match the regexp expression from reverse lookup results, useful on invalid hostnames.
OUTPUT OPTIONS:
  -o --output <file>	Output in XML format. Can be imported in MagicTree (www.gremwell.com)

Updated on: 2024-Mar-11