Recon for Ethical Hacking / Pentesting & Bug Bounty 2025

About Recon for Ethical Hacking / Pentesting & Bug Bounty 2025

Welcome to

Recon for Bug Bounty Pentesting and Ethical Hacking

This course starts with the

Basics of Recon and Bug Bounty Hunting Fundamentals to Advance Exploitation

This course starts with

basics with Web and Web Server Works

and how it can be used in our day to day life We will also learn about

DNS URL vs URN vs URI and Recon for Bug Bounties

to make our base stronger and then further move on to

Target Expansion Content Discovery Fuzzing CMS Identification Certificate Transparency Visual Recon GitHub Recon Custom Wordlists Mind Maps Bug Bounty Automation Bug Bounty Platforms

with practicals This course covers

All the Tools and Techniques for Penetration Testing and Bug Bounties

for a better understanding of what is happening behind the hood The course also includes

an in depth approach towards any target and increases the scope for mass hunting and success

With this course we will learn

Target Selection Techniques for Host Subnet Scans and Host Discovery Content Discovery Subdomain Enumeration Horizontal and Vertical CMS Identification Fuzzing the target for finding web vulnerabilities like XSS Open Redirect SSRF SQL Injection etc

How to increase the scope and take screenshots for a large number of hosts for better visualization We will also learn

How to use Shodan for Bug Bounties

to find critical vulnerabilities in targets We will also see

GitHub Recon

to find sensitive information for targets like API keys from GitHub Repositories Next we will see

How to perform Automation

for daily day to day tasks and easier ways to run tools We will also see

How to write Bug Bounty and Pentesting Reports

We will also cover

mind maps by other hackers

for a better approach toward any target and also we will see

a mind map created by us

We will also see

Bug Bounty Platforms and how to kick start our journey on them

Here is a more detailed breakdown of the course content In all the sections we will start with the fundamental principle of

How the scan works and How can we perform Exploitation

In

Introduction

We will cover

What is Web What are Web Servers DNS and We will also learn about DNS and How DNS works and also How DNS is important in our day to day life

We will also see

the difference between URL URN and URI

We will also see

the complete breakdown of the URL

to understand better We will also learn about

Bug Bounty Hunting and Understand the Importance of Recon in Bug Bounty Hunting and Pentesting

Before starting the journey We will see

Top 10 rules for Bug Bounty Hunting

and we will understand

the psychology of the Hackers

In

Shodan for Bug Bounties

we will start with the

installation of Shodan

and we will learn about

Shodan Queries such as Info Count downloads and many more

and will run them from our command line We will also learn

Host Enumeration Parse dataset Search Queries and Scan commands using Shodan

The section cannot be completed without learning about

Shodan GUI which is very simple and easily understandable

We will also see

Shodan Images Exploits Report generation and a lot more

In the end we will see the

summary and revision of the section to remember the important queries and key points

We will see

live hunting with Shodan and understand the latest CVEs and perform exploits

We will see

Jenkins Exploitation Logs Jenkins Exploitation Credentials ADB under Shodan LIVE Hunting

In

Certificate Transparency for Subdomain Enumeration

we will learn about

crt dot sh wildcards of crt dot sh and We will learn automation for crt dot sh to enumerate subdomains for a target

We will also learn about

Shodan Censys for Subdomain Enumeration

We will learn about

Google and Facebook Certificate Transparency

We will also learn

to find out Subdomains using DNS Dumpster

and enumerate all the

DNS records as well as save the hosts in an XLSX format

We will also see

the workflow for dnsdumpster

to know about the whole target server from its

DNS records like A CNAME MX TXT etc

In

Scope Expansion

we will learn about

ASN Lookup Pentest tools VirusTotal

We will also learn about some

awesome tools like Sublister Subfinder Knockpy Asset Finder Amass Findomain Sublert Project Discovery Nmmapper and a lot more

We will also understand how to use them

effectively for expanding the scope to walk on a less traveled road and achieve success in bug bounties

In

DNS Enumeration for Bug Bounties

we will learn and understand about

DNS Dumpster DNS Goodies Altdns Massdns Vertical and Horizontal Correlation Viewdns info

and enumerate the

subdomains from the recursive DNS

We will start with

Introduction to Fuzzing Its importance and Step by Step process

We will see

fuzzing practically on LAB and LIVE websites

to understand better We will

Learn Understand and Use tools like Wfuzz and FFUF

and also see how we can

perform recursive fuzzing on the target

We will also perform

HTTP Basic Auth Fuzz to crack the login of the dashboards

and also do

Login Authentication Cracking with the help of useful wordlists

We will utilize some of the

wordlists like SecLists FuzzDB Jhaddix All txt

and will also see

how to make our own custom wordlists for the targets

Content Discovery

covers tools like

Dirsearch Gobuster

which will be helpful for

finding out sensitive endpoints of the targets like db conf or env files

which may contain the

DB username and passwords

Also

sensitive information like periodic backups or source code

and can also be identified which can

lead to the compromise of the whole server

In

CMS Identification

we will learn and understand about

Wappalyzer Builtwith Netcraft WhatWeb Retire js

As

Banner Grabbing and identifying information about the target is the foremost step

we will

identify the underlying technologies

which will enable us to

narrow down the approach which will lead to success

In

WAF Identification

we will see

WAF Detection with Nmap WAF Fingerprinting with Nmap WafW00f vs Nmap

We will know

if there are any firewalls running on the target

and accordingly send our

payloads to the targets and throttle our requests so we can evade them successfully

The

Mindmaps for Recon and Bug Bounty

section will cover

the approach and methodology towards the target for pentesting and bug bounty

A

strong and clear visual representation

will help in

performing the attack process with more clarity and will help in knowing the next steps

The

Bug Bounty Platforms

section contains a

Roadmap of How to start your Bug Bounty Journey on different Platforms like HackerOne Bugcrowd Integrity Synack

It also covers

how to Report Private RVDP Programs

With this course you get

24 7 support

so if you have any questions you can

post them in the Q and A section and we will respond to you as soon as possible

Notes

This course is created

for educational purposes only

and all the

websites I have performed attacks on are ethically reported and fixed

Testing any

website that does not have a Responsible Disclosure Policy is unethical and against the law

The author

does not hold any responsibility