Security News > 2023 > December > Subdominator: Open-source tool for detecting subdomain takeovers
Subdominator is a dependable and fast open-source command-line interface tool to identify subdomain takeovers.
It boasts superior accuracy and reliability, offering improvements compared to other tools.
"Initially, Subdominator was created internally because all the current subdomain takeover tools had gaps in their functionality. No tool had a complete set of accurate service fingerprints or features. As a cybersecurity company, we want to ensure our clients get consistent and comprehensive testing, so I developed a new tool to fill the gaps. While developing it, I discovered that there were features and optimizations that none of the existing tools had too, even if you used them in combination," Colin Watson, CTO at Stratus Security, told Help Net Security.
Fingerprint count: The tool has 97 service fingerprints.
Stratus Security reviewed every other tool the internet offered, and the next best was 80.
Speed: The tool runs ~8x faster than existing tools, a test on ~100,000 records took 19 minutes for us and 2.5 hours for every other tool.