A curated list of awesome search engines useful during Penetration testing, Vulnerability assessments, Red/Blue Team operations, Bug Bounty and more

General • Servers • Vulnerabilities • Exploits • Attack surface • Code • Email addresses • Domains • URLs • DNS • Certificates • WiFi networks • Device Info • Credentials • Leaks • Hidden Services • Social Networks • Phone numbers • Images • Threat Intelligence • Web History • Files • Surveillance cameras • Crypto • People

General Search Engines

Servers

  • Shodan – Search Engine for the Internet of Everything
  • Censys Search – Search Engine for every server on the Internet to reduce exposure and improve security
  • Onyphe.io – Cyber Defense Search Engine for open-source and cyber threat intelligence data
  • 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
  • Quake – Cyberspace surveying and mapping system
  • Hunter – Internet Search Engines For Security Researchers
  • ODIN – One of the most powerful search engines for Scanned Internet Assets

Vulnerabilities

  • NIST NVD – US 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 datasource
  • 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
  • Trickest CVE Repository – Gather and update all available and newest CVEs with their PoC
  • cnvd.org.cn – Chinese National Vulnerability Database
  • InTheWild.io – Check CVEs in our free, open source feed of exploited vulnerabilities
  • Vulnerability Lab – Vulnerability research, bug bounties and vulnerability assessments
  • Red Hat Security Advisories – Information about security flaws that affect Red Hat products and services in the form of security advisories
  • Cisco Security Advisories – Security advisories and vulnerability information for Cisco products, including network equipment and software
  • Microsoft Security Response Center – Reports of security vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and services
  • VARIoT – VARIoT IoT Vulnerabilities Database
  • Lambda Watchdog – Your CVE dashboard for AWS Lambda
  • cvefeed.io – Comprehensive and up-to-date feed of the latest CVEs, security advisories, and other vulnerabilities
  • CVE Crowd – Keep track of actively discussed CVEs and integrate them into your application or business
  • Wiz Vulnerability Database – A comprehensive resource for monitoring high-profile vulnerabilities in cloud environments, tailored for security teams and cloud professionals

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
  • Living Off The Land Binaries, Scripts and Libraries – 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
  • Reverse Shell generator – Online Reverse Shell generator with Local Storage functionality, URI & Base64 Encoding, MSFVenom Generator, and Raw Mode
  • HackerOne hacktivity – See the latest hacker activity on HackerOne
  • Bugcrowd Crowdstream – Showcase of accepted and disclosed submissions on Bugcrowd programs
  • GTFOArgs – Curated list of Unix binaries that can be manipulated for argument injection
  • shell-storm.org/shellcode – Shellcodes database for study cases
  • Hacking the Cloud – Encyclopedia of the attacks/tactics/techniques that offensive security professionals can use on their next cloud exploitation adventure
  • Living Off The Land Drivers – Open-source project that brings together vulnerable, malicious, and known malicious Windows drivers
  • PwnWiki – Collection of TTPs (tools, tactics, and procedures) for what to do after access has been gained
  • CVExploits Search – Your comprehensive database for CVE exploits from across the internet
  • VARIoT – VARIoT IoT exploits database
  • Living Off the Orchard: macOS Binaries – Detailed information on various built-in macOS binaries and how they can be used by threat actors for malicious purposes
  • Coalition Exploit Scoring System – Model that dynamically scores new and existing vulnerabilities to reflect their exploit likelihood
  • WADComs – Interactive cheat sheet containing a curated list of offensive security tools and their respective commands to be used against Windows/AD environments
  • Living Off The Land Applications – Compendium of applications that can be used to carry out day-to-day exploitation
  • Living off the Hardware – Resource collection that provides guidance on identifying and utilizing malicious hardware and malicious devices
  • Living Off the Pipeline – How development tools commonly used in CI/CD pipelines can be used to achieve arbitrary code execution
  • hackyx.io – The aim of this project is to easily find any resource related to IT security like CTF writeups, articles or Bug Bounty reports
  • exploit.observer – The World’s Largest Exploit & Vulnerability Intelligence Database and is freely accessible to all
  • VulnCheck XDB – An index of exploit proof-of-concept code in Git repositories
  • Sploitify – Interactive cheat sheet, containing a curated list of public server-side exploits (mostly)
  • Living Off The Land ESXi – Comprehensive list of binaries/scripts natively available in VMware ESXi that adversaries have utilised in their operations
  • Living Off The Land and Exploitation Active Directory – Comprehensive collection of Active Directory techniques, commands, and functions that can be used natively to support offensive security operations and Red Team exercises
  • Living Off The Land Security Tools – Curated list of Security Tools used by adversaries to bypass security controls and carry out attacks
  • cspbypass.com – Search for Content Security Policy Bypasses
  • Living Off The Tunnels – Community driven project to document digital tunnels that can be abused by threat actors as well by insiders for data exfiltrations, persistence, shell access etc

Attack Surface

  • FullHunt.io – Attack surface database of the entire Internet
  • BinaryEdge – 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
  • IPInfo.io – The trusted source for IP address data
  • IPData.co – IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API
  • NetworksDB – Information about the public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, networks and domains owned by companies and organisations across the world
  • ASNlookup – Quickly lookup updated information about specific Autonomous System Number (ASN), Organization, CIDR, or registered IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) among other relevant data
  • BGPtools – Browse the Internet ecosystem
  • BGPview – Debug and investigate information about IP addresses, ASN, IXs, BGP, ISPs, Prefixes and Domain names
  • BigDataCloud – The API provides comprehensive location and network data
  • RADb – The world’s largest public routing registry
  • Deepinfo – Empower your security with the most comprehensive Internet data
  • CloudFlare Radar – Global Internet traffic, attack, and technology trends and insights
  • IPIP – The only IP Database based on real time BGP/ASN data analytics
  • Hurricane Electric BGP – The Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit is free to use. Look up ASN from IP address
  • Webscout – From threat intelligence to attack surface discovery, asset management, and brand protection
  • Awseye – Open-source intelligence (OSINT) and reconnaissance service tracking publicly accessible AWS data
  • S4E – Continuous Threat Exposure Management platform that offers a web-based cybersecurity solution for comprehensive scanning and vulnerability detection of digital assets like domains, subdomains, IP addresses, and web apps
  • ipquery.io – The IP Address API for Developers

Code

  • GitHub Code Search – Search globally across all of GitHub, or scope your search to a particular repository or organization
  • GitLab Code Search – Advanced search for faster, more efficient search across the entire GitLab instance
  • Sourceforge – Complete Open-Source and Business Software Platform
  • grep.app – Search across a half million git repos
  • publicwww.com – Find any alphanumeric snippet, signature or keyword in the web pages 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
  • GitHub Gists – Instantly share code, notes, and snippets
  • CodeBerg – Collaboration platform and Git hosting for free and open source software, content and projects
  • Fedora Pagure – Open Source software code hosting system
  • LaunchPad – Software collaboration platform that provides: Bug tracking, Code hosting, Code reviews, Ubuntu package building and hosting, Translations…
  • repo.or.cz – Public Git hosting site
  • gitorious.org – Read-only mirror of the former gitorious.org code hosting website
  • Sourcehut – Collection of tools useful for software development
  • android.googlesource.com – Git repositories on android
  • deps.dev – Service developed and hosted by Google to help developers better understand the structure, construction, and security of open source software packages
  • WebFinery – Search the source code of the web
  • Google Code Archive – Data found on the Google Code Project Hosting Service, which was turned down in early 2016
  • Snipplr – Code snippet search engine that allows users to search and share code snippets across various programming languages and frameworks
  • Postman Public Collections – Explore the best APIs, collections, workspaces in the world on the Postman Public API Network
  • ScriptMafia – Download full nulled scripts
  • SearchFTPs – The most advanced FTP Search Engine service maintained by members
  • Ecosyste.ms – An open API service providing package, version and dependency metadata of many open source software ecosystems and registries
  • SwaggerHub – Search public APIs and Domains in SwaggerHub

Email 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
  • Experte email finder – Find the right email address, even if you only know the name and the company
  • EmailSherlock – Search for the Person behind the Email address and find our reputation score
  • Anymail Finder – Find verified emails
  • Tomba.io – With 430+ million email addresses indexed, effective search filters, and deliverability checks, Tomba’s email finder is its most powerful tool
  • Snov Email Finder Find any email. Anywhere
  • EmailSearch.io – Find any emails and phones from a domain, Linkedin, name, and company
  • Email Permutator+ – Find potential email addresses permutating different combinations
  • Emailrep.io – Simple Email Reputation
  • Mailboxvalidator – Secure and reliable email validation service to check for invalid email addresses
  • ContactOut – Most accurate email finder for personal and work email outreach
  • validemail.io – Validate email addresses for deliverability with our Email Validation API
  • Predicta Search – Reverse lookup search engine for email and phone numbers
  • Infoga.io – Find out all email for a certain domain using search engines

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 – 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
  • 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!
  • wannabe1337.xyz – Online Tools
  • subdomainfinder.c99.nl – Scanner that scans an entire domain to find as many subdomains as possible
  • AnubisDB – Subdomain enumeration and information gathering tool
  • HypeStat – Free statistics and analytics service, where you can find information about every website
  • Private Key Project – Information security tools from Private Key Project
  • SiteDossier – Profiles for millions of sites on the web
  • SpyOnWeb – Quick and convenient search for the websites that probably belong to the same owner
  • HaveIBeenSquatted – Check if a domain has been typosquatted
  • expireddomains.net – ExpiredDomains.net gathers all the information you need to find good Expired Domains that are Pending Delete and you can Backorder
  • SubDomainRadar.io – Discover hidden subdomains with unparalleled accuracy and speed
  • Google Safe Browsing – Google’s Safe Browsing technology examines billions of URLs per day looking for unsafe websites

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
  • URLVoid – Check the online reputation/safety of a website
  • Norton SafeWeb – Look up a site, Get our rating
  • CheckPhish – Real-time URL and website scanner
  • web-check.xyz – All-in-one OSINT tool, for quickly checking a websites data
  • TinyScan – Effortlessly Dive into URL Details
  • urldna.io – Unleash website insights! urldna.io analyzes data, monitors brands and exposes security risks

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 make querying subdomains or sites of a 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 API’s and growing
  • wannabe1337.xyz – Online Tools
  • DNSlytics – Find out everything about a domain name, IP address or provider
  • dnsrepo.noc.org – DNS Database Repository Search
  • DNSSpy – Monitor, validate and verify your DNS configurations
  • ZETAlytics – We offer unrivalled geographic diversity and exclusive global network visibility in searchable datasets for use by cyber security analysts
  • AskDNS – Lookup Connected Domain Names and IP Addresses
  • 360 PassiveDNS.CN – Biggest public available db in China designed for security and research purpose
  • MXtoolbox – All of your MX record, DNS, blacklist and SMTP diagnostics in one integrated tool
  • NSLookup.io – Find all DNS records for a domain name using this online tool
  • Robtex DNS Lookup – Get detailed information on the nameservers associated with a domain name
  • DNSMap – Worldwide DNS Propagation Checker
  • Validin – Massive collection of DNS records with free DNS history search
  • dnslookup.pro – Advanced DNS Record Analysis & Troubleshooting

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
  • ciphersuite.info – TLS Ciphersuite Search. Search for a particular cipher suite by using IANA, OpenSSL or GnuTLS name format
  • certificatedetails – Online certificate viewer. Inspect and download certificates from your browser
  • FacebookCT – Search for certificates issued for a given domain and subscribe to notifications from Facebook regarding new certificates
  • certs.io – Search TLS certificates across the internet.
  • ODIN Certificates Search – ODIN Certificates Search

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

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
  • LeakCheck.io – Make sure your credentials haven’t been compromised
  • crackstation.net -Massive pre-computed lookup tables to crack password hashes
  • HashKiller – Pre-cracked Hashes, easily searchable
  • LeakedPassword – Search across multiple data breaches to see if your pass has been compromised
  • BugMeNot – Find and share logins
  • Hashes.com – Decrypt and crack your MD5, SHA1, SHA256, MySQL, MD5 Email, SHA256 Email, and NTLM hashes for free online
  • Hashmob – The Largest Password Recovery Community
  • WhiteIntel – Check if a company or its customers was victim of an information stealer malware
  • ntlm.pw – Instantly look up NTLM hashes and resolve them to plaintext passwords using our database with 8B+ entries
  • Hudson Rock – Use Hudson Rock’s free cybercrime intelligence tools to learn how compromised credentials are impacting your business
  • hackedlist.io – Enter your domain to find credentials compromised by info-stealer malware
  • HaveIBeenSold – Lets you find out whether or not your email has been sold to third parties
  • Leak.sx – The best leaked accounts website you always wanted
  • ScatteredSecrets – Search data breaches to see if your password has been compromised

Leaks

  • WikiLeaks – News leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources
  • Leak-Lookup – Search across thousands of data breaches
  • Snusbase – Stay on top of the latest database breaches
  • Weleakinfo – View dehashed breached databases
  • 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
  • Exposed Forum – The premier Databreach discussion & leaks forum
  • Distributed Denial of Secrets – Journalist 501(c)(3) non-profit devoted to publishing and archiving leaks
  • Have I Been Zuckered – Facebook Data Breach Checker
  • Cryptome – Documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide
  • LeakPeek – Search for your publicly leaked passwords using an email or username, secure your personal data
  • BreachCheck.io – Free service for consumers that allows you to check and download a list of your personal data exposed in various databreaches
  • OCCRP Aleph – The global archive of research material for investigative reporting
  • LeakRadar – We collect publicly published infostealer logs so you can quickly check if your email credentials have been compromised
  • Offshore Leaks – Find out who’s behind more than 800000 offshore companies, foundations and trusts from ICIJ’s investigations

Hidden Services

Social Networks

These can be useful for osint and social engineering.

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
  • ValidNumber.com – Free reverse phone lookup service to let you identify a caller associated with any 10-digit phone number from the US and Canada
  • CellIdFinder – Nonprofit project which helps you to find GSM BTS by MCC, MNC, LAC and CellID
  • OldPhoneBook – Instantly search a large selection from the past 20 years of USA phone listings
  • Spokeo – Search by name, phone, address, or email to confidentially lookup information about people you know
  • Intelius Phone Lookup – Look up a phone number to find owner information, carrier details, and more
  • ZabaSearch Phone Lookup – Reverse Phone Lookup Tool Can Uncover Personal Information, Social Media Data, Online Activity, Photos, and More
  • AnyWho Phone Lookup – Find out information associated with a phone number
  • Radaris Phone Lookup – Look up any phone number to see its owner and identify who’s calling or texting you
  • Reverse Phone Lookup – Reverse phone number lookup with millions of listings including name or address

Images

  • Google Image Search – The most comprehensive image search on the web
  • Baidu Image – Baidu Image Search
  • Yahoo Image – Yahoo Image Search
  • Yandex Image – Yandex Image Search
  • Facecheck.id – Search for people by photo and verify you are talking to the person they claim to be
  • Bing Visual Search – See it, search it
  • Reverse Image Search – Super-fast image finder that helps you find similar images online
  • Reverse Image – Find Where Images Appear Online
  • Pixsy – Find and fight image theft
  • Pimeyes – Face Search Engine, Reverse Image Search
  • Pictriev – Find look-alike celebrities on the web using the face recognition
  • Karmadecay – Reverse image search of Reddit.com
  • Infringement Report – The web’s best image copyright infringement search tool
  • Tineye – Image search and recognition company
  • Flickr – Home to tens of billions of photos and 2 million groups
  • Sogou – Chinese technology company that offers a search engine
  • Jimpl – Online photo metadata and EXIF data viewer
  • Same Energy – Find beautiful images
  • Pixabay – Stunning royalty-free images & royalty-free stock
  • FotoForensics – Tools and training for digital picture analysis, including error level analysis, metadata, and tutorials
  • Exif data – Online application that lets you take a deeper look at your favorite images
  • Image Identify – Image recognition site, just drag your image & identify
  • ScamDigger – You will see if that picture belongs to somebody else, was used by somebody else, already scamlisted, etc

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 – The largest collection of malware source code, samples, and papers on the internet
  • bazaar.abuse.ch – Malware sample database
  • feodotracker.abuse.ch – List of botnet Command&Control servers
  • Joe Sandbox – Threat hunting & search engine
  • 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
  • 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
  • ORKL – The Community Driven Cyber Threat Intelligence Library
  • Maltiverse – Data from more than 100 different Threat Intelligence sources
  • Inquest Labs – Threat intelligence from hundreds of public, private, and internal sources to develop new FDR signatures and rules
  • PhishTank – Collaborative clearing house for data and information about phishing on the Internet
  • IntelOwl – Open Source Intelligence, or OSINT solution to get threat intelligence data about a specific file, an IP or a domain from a single API at scale
  • Lupovis – Analyze and collect data on Internet-wide scans and attacks in real-time. We use this data to identify and classify malicious actors
  • AbuseIPDB – Check the report history of any IP address to see if anyone else has reported malicious activities
  • Sucuri SiteCheck – Check websites for known malware, viruses, blacklisting status, website errors, out-of-date software, and malicious code
  • Spamhaus – Protect and investigate using IP and domain reputation data
  • ThreatBook – One step ahead of your adversary with high-fidelity, efficient and actionable cyber threat intelligence
  • ShadowServer – Nonprofit security organization working altruistically behind the scenes to make the Internet more secure for everyone
  • Team Cymru – Global leader in cyber threat intelligence and attack surface management
  • BeVigil – Search engine for mobile application security testing
  • CIRCL – The Computer Incident Response Center Luxembourg is a government-driven initiative designed to gather, review, report and respond to computer security threats and incidents
  • MetaDefender Cloud – Advanced threat detection and prevention platform
  • Cybersixgill – Threat intelligence platform that provides access to a wide range of cybersecurity information, including dark web monitoring and threat actor analysis
  • Hybrid Analysis – Free malware analysis service for the community that detects and analyzes unknown threats using a unique Hybrid Analysis technology
  • IBM X-Force Exchange – Threat intelligence sharing platform enabling research on security threats, aggregation of intelligence, and collaboration with peers
  • The DFIR Report – Real Intrusions by Real Attackers, The Truth Behind the Intrusion
  • Detection.FYI – Search Sigma rules
  • WhoisXMLAPI – Domain & IP Data Intelligence for Greater Enterprise Security
  • APIVoid – Threat analysis centered on IP and Domain reputation, along with additional services
  • AnyRun – Browse thousands of malware samples in our database
  • Filescan.io – Search reports for file name, URL, IP, Domain or Hash
  • MalShare – Community driven public malware repository that works to provide free access to malware samples
  • Kaspersky TIP – Scan files, domains, IP addresses, and URLs for threats, malware, viruses
  • Malwares.com – Search malwares online
  • ApkLab – Mobile threat intelligence platform designed to provide the most relevant information for Android security researchers
  • Scumware – Find latest reports about malware and other threats
  • Living off the False Positive – Autogenerated collection of false positives sourced from some of the most popular rule sets
  • HijackLibs – Project for tracking publicly disclosed DLL Hijacking opportunities
  • bootloaders.io – Curated list of known malicious bootloaders for various operating systems
  • WTFBins – Catalogue benign applications that exhibit suspicious behavior. These binaries can emit noise and false positives in threat hunting and automated detections
  • LOFLCAB – Document every cmdlet, binary, script, and WMI class that can be used for Living Off the Foreign Land techniques
  • OpSecFailure – Site that lists how individuals messed up their opsec, no personal info is shared on this site
  • TrailDiscover – An evolving repository of CloudTrail events with detailed descriptions, MITRE ATT&CK insights, real-world incidents, references and security implications
  • scamdb.net – Report and Search Online Scams
  • OpenPhish – Actionable intelligence data on active phishing threats
  • ThreatIntelligencePlatform.com – Data, tool, and API provider that specializes in automated threat detection, security analysis and threat intelligence solutions
  • Hunt.io – Service that provides threat intelligence data about observed network scanning and cyberattacks
  • LOLC2 – Collection of C2 frameworks that leverage legitimate services to evade detection
  • seized.fyi – List of seized websites
  • InfoTrail – Advanced OSINT search engine helping security professionals and researchers uncover critical intelligence
  • RuleHound – An index of publicly available and open-source threat detection rulesets

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
  • Arquivo – Non-profit service that maintains information published on the web of interest to the Portuguese community
  • Archive-It – An archive of digital government and non-government organization (NGO) documents and reports
  • HAW – Croatian Web Archive

Files

  • Pastebin – Website where you can store text online for a set period of time
  • Mega – Secure and private cloud storage for everyone. Store and share files, chat, meet, back up, sync, and more
  • 4Shared – Search, Store and Share easily. Upload, discover and share files without a hitch
  • files.fm – Explore content shared by community
  • edisk.cz – Online storage for backing up, sharing and searching for photos, videos, music and other files
  • doodstream – DoodStream Search Engine
  • UVRX Search – Most comprehensive online file storage search engine
  • filesearch.link – You can search archives, programs, videos, music, books and more
  • RapidGators Search – Search for files stored on the rapidgator cloud

Surveillance cameras

Crypto

People

  • TruePeopleSearch – Free people search tool. Search billions of public records
  • TruthFinder – A people search is a quick and simple way to find information on someone by name
  • BeenVerified – BeenVerified’s mission is to give people easy and affordable access to public record information
  • ZabaSearch – Free* People Search and Public Information Search Engine
  • PeekYou – Fast People Search Made Easy
  • PeopleFinders – People Search
  • Pipl – The #1 source for identity & trust
  • That’s Them – Find Someone’s Contact Details By Name
  • snitch.name – Social White Pages application with helps you Search for People’s Profiles on Social Sites
  • Webmii – People search engine
  • FastPeopleSearch – Find a person by name, phone number, or street address
  • Sorted By Name – A curated collection of links to genealogy details mentioned on other websites, or acquired by the webmaster
  • Radaris – Find People Fast and Free
  • Addresses.com – Free People Search and Public Information Search Engine
  • Advanced Background Checks – Free People Search
  • Yasni – Search phone, email, address for any name. News, pictures & links for any person. Find anyone on the internet with the world’s largest free people search
  • USA Data Search – The USA official website provides access to public data that can be searched and viewed by anyone
  • AnyWho – Finding People, Places, and Businesses
  • Lullar – Profile Search by Email, First Last Name or Username
  • Ancestry – The largest for-profit genealogy company in the world, it operates a network of genealogical, historical records, and related genetic genealogy websites
  • genealogy.com – Source for family history buffs to find genealogical research originally posted in GenForum and our most popular genealogy articles
  • US Search – Access to details about the people in your life. Access public records, contact information, background checks & more
  • Find My Past – Discover your global ancestors by searching millions of records across the world
  • FamilySearch – Search for your ancestors in birth certificates, marriage registrations, census records, and other documents
  • iTools – Wink People Search – Free people search. Find people on social networks and across the Web
  • Intelius – Leading provider of public data about people and their connections to others
  • Whatsmyname – OSINT tool designed for enumerating usernames across a wide array of websites
  • Namecheckr – Social and Domain Name Availability Search For Brand Professionals

Unclassified

  • DorkSearch – Speed up your Dorking
  • usersearch.org – Find someone by username or email on Social Networks, Dating Sites, Forums, Crypto Forums, Chat Sites and Blogs
  • Wappalyzer – Instant access to website technology stacks, company and contact details, social media profiles, email verification and more
  • Awakari – Real-Time Search from unlimited sources like RSS, Fediverse, Telegram, etc. Filter events by keywords, numeric conditions, condition groups
  • CanIUse.com – Browser support tables for modern web technologies
  • Dark Visitors – Track and Control Artificial Agents Crawling Your Website

Not working / Paused

  • DNS.BufferOver.run
  • NetoGraph – Captures and indexes detailed, low-level snapshots of website behaviour
  • Hashdd – Known Good Cryptographic Hashes
  • CVE Trends – Monitor trending CVEs in real-time; crowdsourced intel sourced from Twitter, NIST NVD, Reddit, and GitHub

Source: https://github.com/edoardottt/awesome-hacker-search-engines

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