Recon for Ethical Hacking / Pentesting & Bug Bounty 2025

Complete Methodology for Ethical Hacking, Pentesting & Bug Bounties with Live Attacks 2025

What you'll learn
- Recon
- Target Expansion
- Content Discovery
- Fuzzing
- CMS Identification
- Certificate Transparency
- Visual Recon
- Github Recon
- Custom Wordlists
- Mindmaps
- Bug Bounty Automation
- Bash Scripting
- Bug Bounty Roadmap
- Report Writing
- Shodan for Exploitation
- Subdomain Enumeartion
- DNS Dumpster
- FFUF & WFUZZ
- Project Discovery
- Subjack for Bug bounties
- Amass for Bug bounties
- Dirsearch for Bug bounties
- Masscan for Bug bounties
- Nmap for Bug bounties
- CTF
- Recon Methodologies
- ASN Identification
- TLS Cert Extraction

Requirements
- Basic IT Skills
- No Linux, programming or hacking knowledge required.
- Computer with a minimum of 4GB ram/memory & Internet Connection
- Operating System: Windows / OS X / Linux

Description
Welcome toRecon for Bug Bounty Pentesting and Ethical Hacking

This course starts with theBasics of Recon and Bug Bounty Hunting Fundamentals to Advance Exploitation

This course starts withbasics with Web and Web Server Worksand how it can be used in our day to day life We will also learn aboutDNS URL vs URN vs URI and Recon for Bug Bountiesto make our base stronger and then further move on toTarget Expansion Content Discovery Fuzzing CMS Identification Certificate Transparency Visual Recon GitHub Recon Custom Wordlists Mind Maps Bug Bounty Automation Bug Bounty Platformswith practicals

This course coversAll the Tools and Techniques for Penetration Testing and Bug Bountiesfor a better understanding of what is happening behind the hood

The course also includesan in depth approach towards any target and increases the scope for mass hunting and success

With this course we will learnTarget 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 etcHow to increase the scope and take screenshots for a large number of hosts for better visualization We will also learnHow to use Shodan for Bug Bountiesto find critical vulnerabilities in targets We will also seeGitHub Reconto find sensitive information for targets like API keys from GitHub Repositories Next we will seeHow to perform Automationfor daily day to day tasks and easier ways to run tools We will also seeHow to write Bug Bounty and Pentesting ReportsWe will also covermind maps by other hackersfor a better approach toward any target and also we will seea mind map created by usWe will also seeBug 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 ofHow the scan works and How can we perform Exploitation

InIntroductionWe will coverWhat 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 lifeWe will also seethe difference between URL URN and URIWe will also seethe complete breakdown of the URLto understand better We will also learn aboutBug Bounty Hunting and Understand the Importance of Recon in Bug Bounty Hunting and Pentesting

Before starting the journey We will seeTop 10 rules for Bug Bounty Huntingand we will understandthe psychology of the Hackers

InShodan for Bug Bountieswe will start with theinstallation of Shodanand we will learn aboutShodan Queries such as Info Count downloads and many moreand will run them from our command line We will also learnHost Enumeration Parse dataset Search Queries and Scan commands using ShodanThe section cannot be completed without learning aboutShodan GUI which is very simple and easily understandableWe will also seeShodan Images Exploits Report generation and a lot more

In the end we will see thesummary and revision of the section to remember the important queries and key points

We will seelive hunting with Shodan and understand the latest CVEs and perform exploitsWe will seeJenkins Exploitation Logs Jenkins Exploitation Credentials ADB under Shodan LIVE Hunting

InCertificate Transparency for Subdomain Enumerationwe will learn aboutcrt dot sh wildcards of crt dot sh and We will learn automation for crt dot sh to enumerate subdomains for a targetWe will also learn aboutShodan Censys for Subdomain EnumerationWe will learn aboutGoogle and Facebook Certificate TransparencyWe will also learnto find out Subdomains using DNS Dumpsterand enumerate all theDNS records as well as save the hosts in an XLSX formatWe will also seethe workflow for dnsdumpsterto know about the whole target server from itsDNS records like A CNAME MX TXT etc

InScope Expansionwe will learn aboutASN Lookup Pentest tools VirusTotalWe will also learn about someawesome tools like Sublister Subfinder Knockpy Asset Finder Amass Findomain Sublert Project Discovery Nmmapper and a lot moreWe will also understand how to use themeffectively for expanding the scope to walk on a less traveled road and achieve success in bug bounties

InDNS Enumeration for Bug Bountieswe will learn and understand aboutDNS Dumpster DNS Goodies Altdns Massdns Vertical and Horizontal Correlation Viewdns infoand enumerate thesubdomains from the recursive DNS

We will start withIntroduction to Fuzzing Its importance and Step by Step processWe will seefuzzing practically on LAB and LIVE websitesto understand better We willLearn Understand and Use tools like Wfuzz and FFUFand also see how we canperform recursive fuzzing on the targetWe will also performHTTP Basic Auth Fuzz to crack the login of the dashboardsand also doLogin Authentication Cracking with the help of useful wordlists

We will utilize some of thewordlists like SecLists FuzzDB Jhaddix All txtand will also seehow to make our own custom wordlists for the targets

Content Discoverycovers tools likeDirsearch Gobusterwhich will be helpful forfinding out sensitive endpoints of the targets like db conf or env fileswhich may contain theDB username and passwordsAlsosensitive information like periodic backups or source codeand can also be identified which canlead to the compromise of the whole server

InCMS Identificationwe will learn and understand aboutWappalyzer Builtwith Netcraft WhatWeb Retire js

AsBanner Grabbing and identifying information about the target is the foremost stepwe willidentify the underlying technologieswhich will enable us tonarrow down the approach which will lead to success

InWAF Identificationwe will seeWAF Detection with Nmap WAF Fingerprinting with Nmap WafW00f vs Nmap

We will knowif there are any firewalls running on the targetand accordingly send ourpayloads to the targets and throttle our requests so we can evade them successfully

TheMindmaps for Recon and Bug Bountysection will coverthe approach and methodology towards the target for pentesting and bug bountyAstrong and clear visual representationwill help inperforming the attack process with more clarity and will help in knowing the next steps

TheBug Bounty Platformssection contains aRoadmap of How to start your Bug Bounty Journey on different Platforms like HackerOne Bugcrowd Integrity SynackIt also covershow to Report Private RVDP Programs

With this course you get24 7 supportso if you have any questions you canpost them in the Q and A section and we will respond to you as soon as possible

Notes

This course is createdfor educational purposes onlyand all thewebsites I have performed attacks on are ethically reported and fixed

Testing anywebsite that does not have a Responsible Disclosure Policy is unethical and against the lawThe authordoes not hold any responsibility

Who this course is for:
- Anybody interested in learning website & web application hacking / penetration testing
- Any Beginner who wants to start with Penetration Testing
- Any Beginner who wants to start with Bug Bounty Hunting
- Trainer who are willing to start teaching Pentesting
- Any Professional who working in Cyber Security and Pentesting
- Ethical Hackers who wants to learn How OWASP Works
- Beginners in Cyber Security Industry for Analyst Position
- SOC person who is working into a corporate environment
- Developers who wants to fix vulnerabilities and build secure applications
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