Working with Pdlist Tool on Kali Linux OS

Example 1: To have a list of subdomains passively of for example example.com we can do

pdlist w3wiki.org

We have got the subdomains for w3wiki.org.

Example 2: We can also specify multiple domains

pdlist w3wiki.org google.com

In the below screenshot, we have got the subdomains of google.com.

In the below screenshot, we have got the subdomains of w3wiki.org.

Example 3: We can save the output in a text file by doing

pdlist w3wiki.org -o w3wiki-list.txt

The results are saved in the w3wiki-list.txt file and we have displayed these results in the below screenshot.

Example 4: If we want to only output proper subdomains we can enable the strict mode by doing

pdlist w3wiki.org --strict

Results in strict mode are been displayed in the below screenshot.

Subdomain Enumeration is the initial step while performing Website Reconnaissance. This initial step can be performed through various automated tools. Pdlist is one of the automated tools which is developed in the Python language. Pdlist tool performs passive subdomain detection on the target domain without sending any packet to any of the hosts. Pdlist tool has the feature to scan multiple target domains at the same instance of time. Pdlist tool is available on the GitHub platform and it’s free, open-source to use.

Note: Make Sure You have Python Installed on your System, as this is a python-based tool. Click to check the Installation process: Python Installation Steps on Linux