.TH WHATWEB 1 "December 14th, 2020" .SH NAME WhatWeb \- Next generation Web scanner. Identify technologies used by websites. .SH SYNOPSIS .B whatweb .RI [ options ] .RI .br .SH DESCRIPTION .PP WhatWeb identifies websites. It's goal is to answer the question, "What is that Website?". WhatWeb recognises web technologies including content management systems (CMS), blogging platforms, statistic/analytics packages, JavaScript libraries, web servers, and embedded devices. WhatWeb has over 1800 plugins, each to recognise something different. WhatWeb also identifies version numbers, email addresses, account ID's, web framework modules, SQL errors, and more. WhatWeb can be stealthy and fast, or thorough but slow. WhatWeb supports an aggression level to control the trade off between speed and reliability. When you visit a website in your browser, the transaction includes many hints of what web technologies are powering that website. Sometimes a single webpage visit contains enough information to identify a website but when it does not, WhatWeb can interrogate the website further. The default level of aggression, called 'passive', is the fastest and requires only one HTTP request of a website. This is suitable for scanning public websites. More aggressive modes were developed for in penetration tests. Most WhatWeb plugins are thorough and recognise a range of cues from subtle to obvious. For example, most WordPress websites can be identified by the meta HTML tag, e.g. '', but a minority of WordPress websites remove this identifying tag but this does not thwart WhatWeb. The WordPress WhatWeb plugin has over 15 tests, which include checking the favicon, default installation files, login pages, and checking for "/wp-content/" within relative links. .TP .B Features: .TP * Over 1800 plugins .TP * Control the trade off between speed/stealth and reliability .TP * Performance tuning. Control how many websites to scan concurrently. .TP * Multiple log formats: Brief (greppable), Verbose (human readable), XML, JSON, MagicTree, RubyObject, MongoDB, SQL. .TP * Proxy support including TOR .TP * Custom HTTP headers .TP * Basic HTTP authentication .TP * Control over webpage redirection .TP * IP address ranges .TP * Fuzzy matching .TP * Result certainty awareness .TP * Custom plugins defined on the command line .TP * IDN (International Domain Name) support .SH TARGET SELECTION .TP .B \ Enter URLs, hostnames, IP adddresses, filenames or IP ranges in CIDR, x.x.x-x, or x.x.x.x-x.x.x.x format. .TP .B \-\-input-file=FILE \-i Identify URLs found in FILE .SH TARGET MODIFICATION .TP .B \-\-url-prefix Add a prefix to target URLs .TP .B \-\-url-suffix Add a suffix to target URLs .TP .B \-\-url-pattern Insert the targets into a URL. Requires --input-file, eg. www.example.com/%insert%/robots.txt .SH AGGRESSION .TP The aggression level controls the trade-off between speed/stealth and reliability. .TP .B \-\-aggression \-a=LEVEL Set the aggression level. Default: 1. .TP .nf 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. .ni .SH HTTP OPTIONS .TP .B \-\-user-agent, \-U=AGENT Identify as AGENT instead of WhatWeb/0.4.9. .TP .B \-\-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. .TP .B \-\-follow\-redirect=WHEN Control when to follow redirects. WHEN may be `never', `http-only', `meta-only', `same-site', or `always'. Default: always. .TP .B \-\-max\-redirects=NUM Maximum number of redirects. Default: 10. .SH AUTHENTICATION .TP .B \-\-user, \-u= HTTP basic authentication. .TP .B \-\-cookie, \-c=COOKIES Use cookies, e.g. 'name=value; name2=value2'. .SH PROXY .B \-\-proxy Set proxy hostname and port. Default: 8080. .TP .B \-\-proxy-user Set proxy user and password. .SH PLUGINS .TP .B \-\-list\-plugins, \-l List all plugins. .TP .B \-\-info\-plugins, \-I=[SEARCH] List all plugins with detailed information. Optionally search with keywords in a comma delimited list. .TP .B \-\-search\-plugins=STRING Search plugins for a keyword. .TP .B \-\-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, +/-. .TP .nf Examples: +/tmp/moo.rb,+/tmp/foo.rb title,md5,+./plugins-disabled/ ./plugins-disabled,-md5 \-p + is a shortcut for -p +plugins\-disabled. .ni .TP .B \-\-grep, \-g=STRING|REGEXP Search for STRING or a Regular Expression. Shows only the results that match. .TP .nf Examples: \-\/-grep "hello" \-\-grep "/he[l]*o/" .ni .TP .B \-\-custom\-plugin=DEFINITION Define a custom plugin named Custom-Plugin, .TP .nf Examples: ":text=>'powered by abc'" ":version=>/powered[ ]?by ab[0-9]/" ":ghdb=>'intitle:abc \"powered by abc\"'" ":md5=>'8666257030b94d3bdb46e05945f60b42'" "{:text=>'powered by abc'}" .ni .TP .B \-\-dorks=PLUGIN List Google dorks for the selected plugin. .SH OUTPUT .TP .B \-\-verbose, \-v Verbose output includes plugin descriptions. Use twice for debugging. .TP .B \-\-colour,\-\-color=WHEN control whether colour is used. WHEN may be `never', `always', or `auto'. .TP .B \-\-quiet, \-q Do not display brief logging to STDOUT. .TP .B \-\-no\-errors Suppress error messages. .SH LOGGING .TP .B \-\-log\-brief=FILE Log brief, one\-line output. .TP .B \-\-log\-verbose=FILE Log verbose output. .TP .B \-\-log\-errors=FILE Log errors. .TP .B \-\-log\-xml=FILE Log XML format. .TP .B \-\-log\-json=FILE Log JSON format. .TP .B \-\-log\-sql=FILE Log SQL INSERT statements. .TP .B \-\-log\-sql\-create=FILE Create SQL database tables. .TP .B \-\-log\-json\-verbose=FILE Log JSON Verbose format. .TP .B \-\-log\-magictree=FILE Log MagicTree XML format. .TP .B \-\-log\-object=FILE Log Ruby object inspection format. .TP .B \-\-log\-mongo\-database Name of the MongoDB database. .TP .B \-\-log\-mongo\-collection Name of the MongoDB collection. Default: whatweb. .TP .B \-\-log\-mongo\-host MongoDB hostname or IP address. Default: 0.0.0.0. .TP .B \-\-log\-mongo\-username MongoDB username. Default: nil. .TP .B \-\-log\-mongo\-password MongoDB password. Default: nil. .TP .B \-\-log\-elastic\-index Name of the index to store results. Default: whatweb .TP .B \-\-log\-elastic\-host Host:port of the elastic http interface. Default: 127.0.0.1:9200s .SH PERFORMANCE & STABILITY .TP .B \-\-max\-threads, \-t Number of simultaneous threads. Default: 25. .TP .B \-\-open\-timeout Time in seconds. Default: 15. .TP .B \-\-read\-timeout Time in seconds. Default: 30. .TP .B \-\-wait=SECONDS Wait SECONDS between connections. This is useful when using a single thread. .SH HELP & MISCELLANEOUS .TP .B \-\-short\-help Short usage help. .TP .B \-\-help, \-h Complete usage help. .TP .B \-\-debug Raise errors in plugins. .TP .B \-\-version Display version information. .SH EXAMPLE USAGE .TP .B Scan example.com. ./whatweb example.com .TP .B Scan reddit.com slashdot.org with verbose plugin descriptions. ./whatweb -v reddit.com slashdot.org .TP .B An aggressive scan of wired.com detects the exact version of WordPress. ./whatweb -a 3 www.wired.com .TP .B Scan the local network quickly and suppress errors. whatweb --no-errors 192.168.0.0/24 .TP .B Scan the local network for https websites. whatweb --no-errors --url-prefix https://192.168.0.0/24 .TP .B Scan for crossdomain policies in the Alexa Top 1000. ./whatweb -i plugin-development/alexa-top-100.txt --url-suffix /crossdomain.xml -p crossdomain_xml .SH BUGS Report bugs and feature requests to https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb .SH AUTHOR Developed by Andrew Horton (urbanadventurer) and Brendan Coles (bcoles). .SH HOMEPAGE https://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb .SH SOURCECODE https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb/ .PP