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OWASP Amass

Attack surface mapping and asset discovery

OWASP project for in-depth attack surface mapping: discovers domains, subdomains, IP ranges and related assets using DNS and many public data sources.

Open sourceApache-2.0
Alternative toMaltego
Homepage of OWASP Amass
Official website (owasp.org), captured by ThreatWire.

What OWASP Amass does

Amass combines DNS enumeration, scraping of public sources, certificate transparency logs and APIs of many data providers to discover the external assets of an organisation. Results are stored in an asset database that tracks relationships and changes between runs.

It is an OWASP flagship project used in authorised reconnaissance, bug bounty programmes and attack surface management.

Key features

  • Subdomain and asset discovery from many sources
  • DNS resolution and brute forcing
  • Asset database with relationship tracking
  • Change tracking between enumerations
  • Configurable data source API keys

Licence

Apache-2.0 · Apache License 2.0 · Open source

GitHub does not detect the licence; the LICENSE file states Apache 2.0.

Checked by ThreatWire against the repository's licence file on 2026-10-20. GitHub detects: NOASSERTION.

Security of OWASP Amass itself

No published advisory found for OWASP Amass in GitHub repository advisories. That does not mean the tool has no vulnerabilities.

Sources: GitHub repository advisories · checked 2026-10-20.

Categories and tags

OSINT and attack surface discovery#attack-surface#subdomains#dns#owasp#go#subdomain#enumeration#recon#osint

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