Top Search Engines for Hackers

Hacker Search Engines

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List of Best Hacker – Friendly Search Engines

General Search Engines

• Google
• Bing
• Yahoo!
• Yandex
• Ask
• Baidu
• You

Servers

• Shodan – Search Engine for the Internet of Everything.Shodan is popular for the identification of IoT infrastructure across the globe. If you are a security analyst and performing pentest on the IoT infrastructure, Shodan is a must tool in your arsenal. This tool provides a basic search for free, but if you want to use it further, you need to pay a minimal amount to get the subscription.
• Censys Search – Search Engine for every server on the Internet to reduce exposure and improve security. Censys is basically used to identify subdomains of the IT infrastructure. As Censys list out all the available subdomains for the attacker. Attackers collect those IPs and start fresh recon to identify vulnerabilities.
• Onyphe.io – Cyber Defense Search Engine for open-source and cyber threat intelligence data.The web-based search engine tool is used to collect geo-information, active scans, lookups of threat lists, etc.
• ZoomEye – Global cyberspace mapping
• GreyNoise – The source for understanding internet noise
• Natlas – Scaling Network Scanning
• Netlas.io – Discover, Research and Monitor any Assets Available Online
• FOFA – Cyberspace mapping

• Hunter Hunter is helpful when a security analyst wanted to extract an official email id related to the company.
• IVRE IVRE is an open-source network recon framework that includes the famous port scanner tool Nmap. This tool helps in parsing output from the results of tools such as Argus, Zeek, etc. You can either use the CLI tools, the Python API or the Web interface to browse the scanning results.
• Binaryedge Binaryedge is a search engine for acquiring, analyzing, and classifying a company’s data available on the internet. This tool provides a basic search for free, but if you want to use it further, you need to pay a minimal amount. This tool is available in the Free, Starter, Business, and Enterprise editions.
• Google Google is the ultimate source of knowledge to gain information about anything available in the universe. If you are looking for existing or new vulnerabilities, a lot of google dorks are available to identify problems with the application.
• Spyse is a web-based tool to provide information about the target. Information collected in the previous step is usually used for penetration testing and cyber investigations. This tool is paid tool and is available based on a time limit subscription.

Vulnerabilities

• NIST NVD – National Vulnerability Database
• MITRE CVE – Identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed cybersecurity vulnerabilities
• GitHub Advisory Database – Security vulnerability database inclusive of CVEs and GitHub-originated security advisories
• cloudvulndb.org – The Open Cloud Vulnerability & Security Issue Database
• osv.dev – Open Source Vulnerabilities
• Vulners.com – Your Search Engine for Security Intelligence
• opencve.io – Easiest way to track CVE updates and be alerted about new vulnerabilities
• security.snyk.io – Open Source Vulnerability Database
• Mend Vulnerability Database – The largest open-source vulnerability DB
• Rapid7 – DB – Vulnerability & Exploit Database
• CVEDetails – The ultimate security vulnerability data source
• VulnIQ – Vulnerability intelligence and management solution
• SynapsInt – The unified OSINT research tool
• Aqua Vulnerability Database – Vulnerabilities and weaknesses in open source applications and cloud-native infrastructure
• Vulmon – Vulnerability and exploit search engine
• VulDB – Number one vulnerability database
• ScanFactory – Realtime Security Monitoring
• Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative – Publicly disclosed vulnerabilities discovered by Zero Day Initiative researchers
• Google Project Zero – Vulnerabilities including Zero Days

Exploits

• Exploit-DB – Exploit Database
• Sploitus – Convenient central place for identifying the newest exploits
• Rapid7 – DB – Vulnerability & Exploit Database
• Vulmon – Vulnerability and exploit search engine
• packetstormsecurity.com – Information Security Services, News, Files, Tools, Exploits, Advisories and Whitepapers
• 0day.today – Ultimate database of exploits and vulnerabilities
• LOLBAS – Living Off The Land Binaries, Scripts and Libraries
• GTFOBins – Curated list of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems
• Payloads All The Things – A list of useful payloads and bypasses for Web Application Security
• XSS Payloads – The wonderland of JavaScript unexpected usages, and more
• exploitalert.com – Database of Exploits

Attack Surface

• FullHunt.io – Attack surface database of the entire Internet
• BynaryEdge – We scan the web and gather data for you
• Censys ASM – Attack Surface Management Solutions
• RedHunt Labs – Discover your Attack Surface, Continuously
• SecurityTrails – The Total Internet Inventory
• overcast-security.com – We make tracking your external attack surface easy

Code Search Engines

• GitHub Code Search – Search globally across all of GitHub, or scope your search to a particular repository or organization
• grep.app – Search across a half million git repos
• publicwww.com – Find any alphanumeric snippet, signature or keyword in the web page’s HTML, JS and CSS code
• SearchCode – Search 75 billion lines of code from 40 million projects
• NerdyData – Find companies based on their website’s tech stack or code
• RepoSearch – Source code search engine that helps you find implementation details, example usages or just analyze code
• SourceGraph – Understand and search across your entire codebase
• HotExamples – Search code examples from over 1 million projects
• WP Directory – Lightning-fast regex searching of code in the WordPress Plugin and Theme Directories

Mail Addresses

• Hunter.io – Find professional email addresses in seconds
• PhoneBook – Lists all domains, email addresses, or URLs for the given input domain
• IntelligenceX – Search engine and data archive
• Reacher.email – Open-Source Email Verification
• RocketReach – Your first-degree connection to any professional
• email-format.com – Find the email address formats in use at thousands of companies
• EmailHippo – Email address verification technology
• ThatsThem – Reverse email lookup
• verify-email.org – Checks whether the mailbox exists or not
• Melissa – Emailcheck – Check email addresses and verify they are live
• VoilaNorbert – I can find anyone’s email address
• SynapsInt – The unified OSINT research tool
• skymem.info – Find email addresses of companies and people
• findemails.com – Find Anyone’s Email Address in Seconds

Domains

• PhoneBook – Lists all domains, email addresses, or URLs for the given input domain
• IntelligenceX – Search engine and data archive
• Omnisint – Subdomain enumeration
• Riddler – Allows you to search in a high-quality dataset
• RobTex – Various kinds of research of IP numbers, Domain names, etc
• CentralOps – DomainDossier – Investigate domains and IP addresses
• DomainIQ – Comprehensive Domain Intelligence
• whois.domaintools.com – The industry’s fastest domain discovery engine and broadest, most accurate data
• grayhatwarfare.com – domains – How to search URLs exposed by Shortener services
• whoisology.com – Deep Connections Between Domain Names & Their Owners
• who.is – WHOIS Search, Domain Name, Website, and IP Tools
• pentest-tools.com – Discover subdomains and determine the attack surface of an organization
• BuiltWith – Find out what websites are Built With
• MoonSearch – Backlinks checker & SEO Report
• sitereport.netcraft.com – Find out the infrastructure and technologies used by any site
• SynapsInt – The unified OSINT research tool
• spyonweb.com – Find out related websites
• statscrop.com – Millions of amazing websites across the web are being analyzed with StatsCrop
• securityheaders.com – Scan your site now
• visualsitemapper.com – Create a visual map of your site
• similarweb.com – The easiest and fastest tool to find out what’s really going on online
• buckets.grayhatwarfare.com – Public buckets
• C99.nl – Over 57 quality API’s and growing!
• PassiveTotal – Security intelligence that scales security operations and response
• wannabe1337.xyz – Online Tools
• subdomainfinder.c99.nl – Scanner that scans an entire domain to find as many subdomains as possible

URLs

• PhoneBook – Lists all domains, email addresses, or URLs for the given input domain
• IntelligenceX – Search engine and data archive
• URLScan – A sandbox for the web
• HackerTarget – Collect information about IP Addresses, Networks, Web Pages and DNS records
• MOZ Link Explorer – The world’s best backlink checker with over 40 trillion links
• shorteners.grayhatwarfare.com – Search URLs exposed by Shortener services
• CommonCrawl Index – Open repository of web crawl data

DNS

• DNSDumpster – DNS recon & research, find & lookup DNS records
• Chaos – Enhance research and analyse changes around DNS for better insights
• RapidDNS – dns query tool which makes querying subdomains or sites of the same ip easy
• DNSdb – Passive DNS historical database
• Omnisint – Reverse DNS lookup
• HackerTarget – Collect information about IP Addresses, Networks, Web Pages and DNS records
• passivedns.mnemonic.no – Web interface for querying passive DNS data collected in our malware lab
• ptrarchive.com – Over 230 billion reverse DNS entries from 2008 to the present
• dnshistory.org – Domain Name System Historical Record Archive
• DNSTwister – The anti-phishing domain name search engine and DNS monitoring service
• DNSviz – Tool for visualizing the status of a DNS zone
• C99.nl – Over 57 quality APIs and growing
• PassiveTotal – Security intelligence that scales security operations and response
• wannabe1337.xyz – Online Tools

Certificates

• Crt.sh – Certificate Search
• CTSearch – Certificate Transparency Search Tool
• tls.bufferover.run – Quickly find certificates in IPv4 space
• CertSpotter – Monitors your domains for expiring, unauthorized, and invalid SSL certificates
• SynapsInt – The unified OSINT research tool
• Censys Search – Certificates – Certificates Search
• PassiveTotal – Security intelligence that scales security operations and response

WiFi Networks

• Wigle.net – Maps and database of 802.11 wireless networks with statistics
• wifimap.io – Connect to all Free WiFi Hotspots using WiFi Map App all over the World!
• wificafespots.com – Free WiFi Cafe Spots
• wifispc.com – Free map of Wi-Fi passwords anywhere you go!
• openwifimap.net – HTML5 map with OpenWiFiMap data
• mylnikov.org – Public API implementation of Wi-Fi Geo-Location database

Device Information

• MAC Vendor Lookup – Look up the vendor for a specific MAC Address
• macvendors.com – Find MAC Address Vendors. Now.
• macaddress.io – MAC address vendor lookup
• maclookup.app – Find the vendor name of a device by entering an OUI or a MAC address

Credentials

• Have I Been Pwned – Check if your email or phone is in a data breach
• Dehashed – Free deep-web scans and protection against credential leaks
• Leak-Lookup – Search across thousands of data breaches
• Snusbase – Stay on top of the latest database breaches
• LeakCheck.io – Make sure your credentials haven’t been compromised
• crackstation.net -Massive pre-computed lookup tables to crack password hashes
• breachdirectory.org – Check if your information was exposed in a data breach
• BreachForums – Breaches, Data leaks, databases and more
• Siph0n Breach DB (onionsite) – Breaches, Data leaks, Exploits
• HashKiller – Pre-cracked Hashes, easily searchable

Hidden Services

• AHMIA – Search hidden services on the Tor network
• thehiddenwiki.org – The darknet guide
• tor.link – Free anonymous deep web / Darknet search engine
• deepweblinks.net – Onion Links
• onionengine.com – A search engine for services accessible on the Tor network
• OnionLand – Discover Hidden Services and access to Tor’s onion sites

Social Networks

These can be useful for osint and social engineering.

• Facebook
• Instagram
• YouTube
• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Reddit
• Pinterest
• Tumblr
• Flickr
• SnapChat
• Whatsapp
• Quora
• TikTok
• Vimeo
• Medium
• WeChat
• VK
• Weibo
• Tinder

Phone Numbers

• NumLookup – Free reverse phone lookup
• SpyDialer – Free Reverse Lookup Search
• WhitePages – Find people, contact info & background checks
• National Cellular Directory – Begin your comprehensive people search now
• Phone Validator – Is it a cell phone or is it a landline or is it a fake?
• Free Carrier Lookup – Enter a phone number and we’ll return the carrier name
• RocketReach – Your first-degree connection to any professional
• sync.me – Find out who called
• EmobileTracker – Track Mobile Owner Name, Location and Mobile Service Provider
• Reverse Phone Lookup – Find Out The Owner Of A Phone Number
• ThatsThem – Reverse phone lookup
• thisnumber.com – International Phone Directories
• usphonebook.com – Free Reverse Phone Number Lookup
• truepeoplesearch.com – Get current address, cell phone number, email address, relatives, friends and a lot more
• Tellows – Who is calling? The phone number reverse search
• SynapsInt – The unified OSINT research tool
• C99.nl – Over 57 quality API’s and growing

Threat Intelligence

• MITRE ATT&CK – Globally-accessible knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques
• PulseDive – Threat intelligence made easy
• ThreatCrowd – A Search Engine for Threats
• ThreatMiner – Data Mining for Threat Intelligence
• VirusTotal – Analyze suspicious files, domains, IPs and URLs to detect malware and other breaches
• vx-underground.org – Malware library
• bazaar.abuse.ch – Malware sample database
• feodotracker.abuse.ch – List of botnet Command&Control servers
• sslbl.abuse.ch – All malicious SSL certificates
• urlhaus.abuse.ch – Propose new malware urls
• threatfox.abuse.ch – Indicator Of Compromise (IOC) database
• yaraify.abuse.ch – Scan suspicious files such as malware samples or process dumps against a large repository of YARA rules
• Rescure – Curated cyber threat intelligence for everyone
• otx.alienvault – The World’s First Truly Open Threat Intelligence Community
• urlquery.net – Service for detecting and analyzing web-based malware
• socradar.io – Extension to your SOC team
• VirusShare – System currently contains 48 million malware samples
• WikiLeaks – News leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources
• PassiveTotal – Security intelligence that scales security operations and response
• malapi.io – Windows APIs used for malicious purposes
• filesec.io – Latest file extensions being used by attackers
• leakix.net – Search engine indexing public information and an open reporting platform linked to the results
• tria.ge – Fully automated solution for high-volume malware analysis using advanced sandboxing technology
• Polyswarm – Launchpad for new technologies and innovative threat detection methods
• Cisco Talos – The threat intelligence organization at the center of the Cisco Security portfolio
• scamsearch.io – Find your scammer online & report them
• CyberCampaigns – Threat Actor information and Write-Ups

Web History

• Web Archive – Explore more than 702 billion web pages saved over time
• Archive.ph – Create a copy of a webpage that will always be up even if the original link is down
• CachedPages – Get the cached page of any URL
• stored.website – View cached web pages/website
• CommonCrawl – Open repository of web crawl data
• UK Web Archive – Collects millions of websites each year, preserving them for future generations

Unclassified

• NetoGraph – Captures and indexes detailed, low-level snapshots of website behaviour
• DorkSearch – Speed up your Dorking
• usersearch.org – Find someone by username or email on Social Networks, Dating Sites, Forums, Crypto