Using ceWL

CeWL is a ruby-based crawler that crawls a URL and searches for words that can be used for password attacks. In this recipe, we will learn how to use it to our advantage.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. To view all of the options of cewl, we use the following command:

cewl –h

Once we run the preceding command, we get the following output:

2. To crawl a website, we use the following command:

 cewl -d 2 http://192.168.36.16/forum/

Once we run the preceding command, we get the following output:

3. We will see a list of interesting keywords that can be used to make our own dictionary as password list.

We will look at a wordlist generator in the next recipe.

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