RapidScan – The Multi-Tool Web Vulnerability Scanner in Kali Linux

RapidScan is a free and open-source tool available on GitHub which is based upon Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), the easiest and useful tool for reconnaissance. The RapidScan interface is very similar to Metasploit 1 and Metasploit 2, which provides a command-line interface that you can run on Kali Linux. This tool can be used to get information about our target(domain), which can be a website or an IP address. The interactive console provides a number of helpful features, such as command completion and contextual help. RapidScan is a web reconnaissance tool written in python. It has so many modules, such as database interaction, built-in convenience functions, interactive help, and command completion. RapidScan provides a powerful environment in which open-source web-based reconnaissance can be conducted and you can gather all the information about the target.

Features of RapidScan:

• RapidScan’s interactive console provides a number of helpful features.
• RapidScan is used for information gathering and vulnerability assessment of web applications.
• RapidScan uses the Shodan search engine to scan IoT devices.
• RapidScan can easily find loopholes in the code of web applications and websites.
• RapidScan has the following modules: Geo lookup, banner grabbing, DNS lookup, port scanning. These modules make this tool so powerful.

Installation 

Step 1: Use the following command to install the tool.

git clone https://github.com/skavngr/rapidscan.git
cd rapidscan

Step 2: Now give permission to the tool using the following command and run the tool using the following command.

chmod +x rapidscan.py

./rapidscan.py

 The tool has been downloaded successfully.

Usage

Example 1: Use the RapidScan tool to scan a website.

./rapidscan.py <domain>

We have scanned our geeksforgeeks.org domain.

Example 2: Use the RapidScan tool to scan another website.

./rapidscan.py <domain>