Learn Ethical Hacking from Scratch

Analyzing file results

We can see in the following screenshot of the result that the dirb tool was able to find a number of files. Some of them we already know:

Now, as we can see in the preceding screenshot, favicon.ico is just an icon; footer and header are probably only style files; and index.php is the index that we usually see. We can see that we discovered a login page that allows people to log in.

Now, in many scenarios, we would be able to find the username and password of a target by exploiting a really complex vulnerability, and then end up not being able to log in because we couldn't find where to log in. In such cases, tools like ...