Introduction to Gobuster

Gobuster is a web enumeration and directory brute forcing tool that has been written in Go. Up until my discovery of Gobuster, I was using tools such as Nikto, Cadaver, Skipfish, WPScan, OWASP ZAP, and DirBuster. Every one of these tools has its strengths and weaknesses but, in the end, they all worked pretty much the same with varying results. However, I was looking for something that I could run from the command line and didn't contain a thick client to run.

This is when I stumbled across Gobuster. It was everything I was looking for in a command-line-driven web enumeration tool. I can quickly switch between directory brute forcing and virtual host enumeration. I can switch wordlists on the fly, set command-line arguments to perform file detection, and finally, adjust the thread count. All these features are why I personally have been using Gobuster during pentest engagements. In this section, we are going to install Gobuster and run it against our...