Amass

OWASP Amass is a command-line tool used to perform passive and active network mapping and subdomain discovery.

Subdomain Enumeration (Active/Passive)¶

# Passive subdomain enumeration (safest, relies only on external APIs)
amass enum -passive -d $DOMAIN

# Active subdomain enumeration (includes DNS queries and certificate extraction)
amass enum -active -d $DOMAIN

# Active enumeration with custom DNS resolvers
amass enum -active -d $DOMAIN -r 8.8.8.8,1.1.1.1

Passive Intelligence (Target Discovery)¶

# Discover ASN and related CIDRs belonging to an organization
amass intel -org "Organization Name"

# Search passive sources for IP address range mappings
amass intel -active -addr 192.168.0.1-254

# Discover related domains via reverse WHOIS search
amass intel -whois -d $DOMAIN

Database Queries & Tracking¶

# List all subdomains discovered in past scans from the local DB
amass db -names -d $DOMAIN

# Compare differences between different scan dates
amass track -d $DOMAIN