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I Built a Python Recon Toolkit and It Exposed My Own Server
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I Built a Python Recon Toolkit and It Exposed My Own Server

via Dev.to PythonMohamed El Kamel4h ago

I've always been into offensive security. Watching people do CTFs on YouTube got me hooked early, I loved how it requires networking knowledge, programming, and critical thinking all at once. This year, finishing my CS degree, I decided to stop watching and build something. The result is PyRecon-Suite , a modular Python recon toolkit with four modules: subdomain enumeration, TCP port scanning, PHP webshell detection, and HTTP header analysis. Nothing revolutionary, but building it taught me more than I expected, and it found something on my own infrastructure I didn't know was there. How it works Single CLI entry point, four subcommands: python main.py subdomain --target example.com --wordlist wordlists/subdomains.txt python main.py portscan --target example.com --ports 1-1000 python main.py phpshell --target http://example.com --wordlist wordlists/shells.txt python main.py httpheader --target https://example.com Subdomain enumeration resolves each wordlist entry as a hostname via DNS

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