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Subfinder

Fast passive subdomain enumeration

ProjectDiscovery's subdomain discovery tool that queries passive online sources, built for speed and easy chaining with other tools.

Open sourceMIT
Alternative toMaltego
Homepage of Subfinder
Official website (projectdiscovery.io), captured by ThreatWire.

What Subfinder does

Subfinder finds valid subdomains of a target using passive sources such as certificate transparency logs, search engines and DNS datasets, without sending traffic to the target itself. Many sources need free or paid API keys configured in its provider file.

Its plain or JSON output is designed to pipe into other tools such as httpx and Nuclei.

Key features

  • Many passive subdomain sources
  • No direct traffic to the target
  • Provider configuration for API keys
  • JSON and plain output for chaining
  • Usable as a Go library

Licence

MIT · MIT License · Open source

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

Security of Subfinder itself

No published advisory found for Subfinder 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#subdomains#passive#go#cli#subdomain-enumeration#osint#bugbounty#reconnaissance#hacking

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