how to install assetfinder tool on any linunx distro 🐧

With this tool we can find domains and subdomains potentially related to a given domain. this tool is greatly useful in the asset discovery proccess.

1- first of all we should install go lang on our machine

sudo apt install go-lang -y

the command above is for Debian Based Linux distributions, if you are using a different distro find out how to install go.

check if the go lang installed successfully :

go version

if yes you should see something like this:

go version go1.18.1 linux/amd64

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2- also we need git to be installed on our machine

sudo apt install git

check the git installation :

git --version

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3-now change your directory and move to the downloads folder

cd Downloads

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4- now we should clone the assetfinder repository from Tomnomnom github

git clone https://github.com/tomnomnom/assetfinder.git

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5-now move into the assetfinder directory

cd assetfinder

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6- create a go module

go mod init assetfinder

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7-in this step we should build an executable go package with the command below

the dot sign means build the package in the current directory

go build .

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8- now we should move the file to bin folder so we can access assetfinder from anywhere :D

sudo mv assetfinder /usr/local/bin/

and tada we are ready to hack !🗿