Feroxbuster Command Guide

Feroxbuster is a fast, simple, recursive content discovery tool written in Rust. It's often faster than Gobuster/Dirbuster due to Rust's efficiency.

Top 10 Useful Commands

1. Basic Scan

feroxbuster -u http://target.com

Explanation: Default scan. It handles recursion automatically.

2. Custom Wordlist

feroxbuster -u http://target.com -w /path/to/wordlist.txt

Explanation: Specifies a wordlist.

3. Extensions

feroxbuster -u http://target.com -x pdf,js,html

Explanation: Appends extensions to every word.

4. No Recursion

feroxbuster -u http://target.com -n

Explanation: Disables recursion (-n).

5. Filter Status Codes

feroxbuster -u http://target.com -s 200 301

Explanation: Only output 200 and 301 responses.

6. Filter by Size

feroxbuster -u http://target.com --filter-size 1234

Explanation: Hides all responses that are exactly 1234 bytes.

7. Extract Links

feroxbuster -u http://target.com --extract-links

Explanation: Automatically extracts links from response bodies and scans them.

8. Threads

feroxbuster -u http://target.com -t 100

Explanation: Sets thread count.

9. Proxy

feroxbuster -u http://target.com -p http://127.0.0.1:8080

Explanation: Tunnel through Burp/Zap.

10. Json Output

feroxbuster -u http://target.com --json -o output.json

Explanation: structured JSON output.

The Most Powerful Command

feroxbuster -u http://target.com -w big.txt -x php,html -t 50 --extract-links --auto-tune --smart

Explanation: Uses "Smart" recursion, Auto-tuning (lowers rate if errors occur), and link extraction to find EVERYTHING.