Installation of SourceWolf Tool on Kali Linux OS

Step 1: Check whether Python Environment is Established or not, use the following command.

python3

Step 2: Open up your Kali Linux terminal and move to Desktop using the following command.

cd Desktop

Step 3: You are on Desktop now create a new directory called SourceWolf using the following command. In this directory, we will complete the installation of the SourceWolf tool.

mkdir SourceWolf 

Step 4: Now switch to the SourceWolf directory using the following command.

cd SourceWolf 

Step 5: Now you have to install the tool. You have to clone the tool from GitHub.

git clone https://github.com/micha3lb3n/SourceWolf.git

Step 6: The tool has been downloaded successfully in the SourceWolf directory. Now list out the contents of the tool by using the below command.

ls

Step 7: You can observe that there is a new directory created of the SourceWolf tool that has been generated while we were installing the tool. Now move to that directory using the below command:

cd SourceWolf 

Step 8: Once again to discover the contents of the tool, use the below command.

ls

Step 9: Download the required packages for running the tool, use the following command.

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Step 10: Now we are done with our installation, Use the below command to view the help (gives a better understanding of the tool) index of the tool.

python3 sourcewolf.py -h

Web crawling is the process of indexing data on web pages by using a program or automated script and these automated scripts or programs are known by multiple names, that includes web crawler, spider, spider bot, and often shortened to the crawler. Manual crawling consumes a lot of time if the scope of the target is more. SourceWolf is an automated script developed in the Python Language that crawls the directories from the domain server and the status code. This can help the tester to test the pages whose responses are 200 or 301 quickly. SourceWolf is an open-source and free-to-use tool. SourceWolf tool supports custom word lists for brute-forcing. The output feature of SourceWolf is excellent as the output is stored in the leading directory, and the main directory contains sub-directories with separates status code directories.