Kali Linux 2018: Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Fourth Edition

CeWL

The Custom Word List (CeWL) (http://www.digininja.org/projects/cewl.php) generator is a tool that will spider a target Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and create a unique list of the words found on that URL. This list can then be used by password-cracking tools such as John the Ripper.

The following are several useful options in CeWL:

• depth N or -d N: This sets the spider depth to N; the default value is 2
• min_word_length N or -m N: This is the minimum word length; the default length is 3
• verbose or -v: This gives a verbose output
• write or -w: This is to write output to a file

If you get a problem running CeWL in Kali with an error message, Error: zip/zip gem not installed, use gem install zip/zip to install the required gem. To fix ...