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WHATWEB

May 20, 2021
WHATWEB

Whatweb is a tool which tells what is the website. Whatweb can identify all sorts of information about a live website, like:

 Platform

 CMS platform

 Type of Script

  •  Google Analytics
  •  Web server Platform
  •  IP address, Country
  •  900+ Plugins & their libraries used
  •  Server Headers, Cookies and a lot more. 

Whatweb offers both passive scanning and aggressive testing. Passive scanning just extracts data from HTTP headers simulating a normal visit. Aggressive options get deeper with recursion & various types of queries & identify all technologies just like a vulnerability scanner.

Demo

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Usage

whatweb [options]

Options

TARGET SELECTION
       Enter URLs, hostnames, IP adddresses,
          filenames, or nmap-format IP address ranges.
  --input-file=FILE, -i   Read targets from a file. You can pipe
        hostnames or URLs directly with -i /dev/stdin.

TARGET MODIFICATION
  --url-prefix      Add a prefix to target URLs.
  --url-suffix      Add a suffix to target URLs.
  --url-pattern     Insert the targets into a URL.
        e.g. example.com/%insert%/robots.txt

AGGRESSION
The aggression level controls the trade-off between speed/stealth and
reliability.
  --aggression, -a=LEVEL  Set the aggression level. Default: 1.
  1. Stealthy     Makes one HTTP request per target and also
          follows redirects.
  3. Aggressive     If a level 1 plugin is matched, additional
          requests will be made.
  4. Heavy      Makes a lot of HTTP requests per target. URLs
          from all plugins are attempted.

HTTP OPTIONS:
  --user-agent, -U=AGENT  Identify as AGENT instead of WhatWeb/0.4.9.
  --header, -H      Add an HTTP header. eg "Foo:Bar". Specifying a
        default header will replace it. Specifying an
        empty value, e.g. "User-Agent:" will remove it.
  --follow-redirect=WHEN  Control when to follow redirects. WHEN may be
        `never', `http-only', `meta-only', `same-site',
        `same-domain' or `always'. Default: always.
  --max-redirects=NUM   Maximum number of redirects. Default: 10.

AUTHENTICATION:
  --user, -u=  HTTP basic authentication.
  --cookie, -c=COOKIES    Use cookies, e.g. 'name=value; name2=value2'.

PROXY:
  --proxy      Set proxy hostname and port.
        Default: 8080.
  --proxy-user       Set proxy user and password.

PLUGINS:
  --list-plugins, -l    List all plugins.
  --info-plugins, -I=[SEARCH] List all plugins with detailed information.
        Optionally search with keywords in a comma
        delimited list.
  --search-plugins=STRING Search plugins for a keyword.
  --plugins, -p=LIST    Select plugins. LIST is a comma delimited set
        of selected plugins. Default is all.
        Each element can be a directory, file or plugin
        name and can optionally have a modifier, +/-.
        Examples: +/tmp/moo.rb,+/tmp/foo.rb
        title,md5,+./plugins-disabled/
        ./plugins-disabled,-md5
        -p + is a shortcut for -p +plugins-disabled.

  --grep, -g=STRING   Search for STRING in HTTP responses. Reports
        with a plugin named Grep.
  --custom-plugin=DEFINITION  Define a custom plugin named Custom-Plugin,
        Examples: ":text=>'powered by abc'"
        ":version=>/powered[ ]?by ab[0-9]/"
        ":ghdb=>'intitle:abc "powered by abc"'"
        ":md5=>'8666257030b94d3bdb46e05945f60b42'"
        "{:text=>'powered by abc'}"
  --dorks=PLUGIN    List Google dorks for the selected plugin.

OUTPUT:
  --verbose, -v     Verbose output includes plugin descriptions.
        Use twice for debugging.
  --colour,--color=WHEN   control whether colour is used. WHEN may be
        `never', `always', or `auto'.
  --quiet, -q     Do not display brief logging to STDOUT.
  --no-errors     Suppress error messages.

LOGGING:
  --log-brief=FILE    Log brief, one-line output.
  --log-verbose=FILE    Log verbose output.
  --log-errors=FILE   Log errors.
  --log-xml=FILE    Log XML format.
  --log-json=FILE   Log JSON format.
  --log-sql=FILE    Log SQL INSERT statements.
  --log-sql-create=FILE   Create SQL database tables.
  --log-json-verbose=FILE Log JSON Verbose format.
  --log-magictree=FILE    Log MagicTree XML format.
  --log-object=FILE   Log Ruby object inspection format.
  --log-mongo-database    Name of the MongoDB database.
  --log-mongo-collection  Name of the MongoDB collection.
        Default: whatweb.
  --log-mongo-host    MongoDB hostname or IP address.
        Default: 0.0.0.0.
  --log-mongo-username    MongoDB username. Default: nil.
  --log-mongo-password    MongoDB password. Default: nil.
  --log-elastic-index   Name of the index to store results. Default: whatweb
  --log-elastic-host    Host:port of the elastic http interface. Default: 127.0.0.1:9200
 
PERFORMANCE & STABILITY:

  --max-threads, -t   Number of simultaneous threads. Default: 25.
  --open-timeout    Time in seconds. Default: 15.
  --read-timeout    Time in seconds. Default: 30.
  --wait=SECONDS    Wait SECONDS between connections.
        This is useful when using a single thread.

HELP & MISCELLANEOUS:
  --short-help      Short usage help.
  --help, -h      Complete usage help.
  --debug     Raise errors in plugins.
  --version     Display version information.

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