The best bug bounty recon methodology

My first introduction to reconnaissance was Jason Haddix’s Bug Bounty Hunters Methodology. It’s the de facto standard and is still updated every year. There are currently four iterations and I encourage you to watch them all.

Nowadays, Sunday Recon with NahamSec is my main resource for all things recon. You can’t beat seeing someone do recon live and being able to ask them questions.

View these videos as a foundation and draw inspiration from them.

In the end, the best bug bounty recon methodology is a unique one only you can come up with. It’ll ensure that you get the best results and the least amount of dupes.

Th3G3nt3lman

GitHub Recon and Sensitive Data Exposure

Learn how to locate and identify a company's sensitive data on GitHub. An absolute game changer and the foundation of many bug findings.

How To Do Recon - Introduction to Recon

Katie Paxton-Fear (InsiderPhD)

The first of Katie's How to Do Recon series. Talking about all things recon, why you might want to do recon, what tools you need, and how to actually find bugs with all this data. Check out her inclusive community.

Michael Skelton (Codingo)

Recon and Corporate OSINT with DNSGrep and Rapid7 Open Data

Michael discuss the fundamentals of doing recon and OSINT on a corporation using the Rapid7 Open Data project, and DNSGrep. Part of the awesome BugCrowd community.

PlayThe Bug Hunter's Methodology v4.0 - Recon Edition

Jason Haddix (jhaddix)

The Bug Hunter's Methodology v4.0 - Recon EditionTALK

An ongoing yearly installment on the newest tools and techniques for bug hunters and red teamers. Also featured in my must-watch InfoSec talks of 2020.

PlayPassive-ish Recon Techniques

Tom Hudson (Tomnomnom)

Passive-ish Recon TechniquesTALK

A run-down of (mostly) passive reconnaissance techniques; some well-known, some not-so-well-known.

Abhijeth Dugginapeddi

Recon and Bug Bounties What A Great Love StoryTALK

Abhijeth demonstrates effective techniques to do better information gathering, while also sharing the stories behind the bugs found.

Ben Sadeghipour (NahamSec)

It’s the Little ThingsTALK

Create an automated process that will actively look for vulnerabilities using OSINT and other well known recon tools. Join the Nahomies.

Rob Ragan + Oscar Salazar

Pose a Threat - How Perceptual Analysis Helps Bug HuntersTALK

Optimize the hunt for security vulnerabilities, through unlimited storage, scalable serverless infrastructure, and machine learning powered by collaborative filtering.

Bharath Kumar

Esoteric sub-domain enumeration techniquesTALK

Delving deep into how enumeration techniques work, why they are effective, the tooling around them, and also the mitigation techniques.

Patrik Fehrenbach (ITSecurityGuard)

Amassive Leap in Host Discovery

This talk covers methods to easily implement data sources of all sorts into the amass engine, to make it the all-in-one recon tool that fits everyone's needs.

Hussein

Recon Sunday with hussein98d

One of the more creative and unorthodox recon methodologies I've seen. It introduced me to new tools and websites.

Mayonaise

Recon Sunday with Mayonaise

Definitely a game changer for me. His way of thinking, and his methodology makes this a must-watch. I had to watch this one a couple of times to catch all the intricacies.

Todayisnew

Recon Sunday with Todayisnew

A rare appearance and boy was it worth the wait. It's jam packed with information. His friendly demeanor, and automation are highly sought after. Check out my NahamSec interview notes.

Corben Leo (cdl)

Recon Sunday with CDL

Corben goes into detail of how he does recon and which tools he uses, including his own tool GAU and explaining the reasoning behind it.

Tom Hudson (Tomnomnom)

VIM tutorial - linux terminal tools for bug bounty pentest and redteams

Tom chats with STÖK, sharing his command line recon methodology and how he uses his own tools. One of the main reasons why I started using Vim. I used it as a guide and played it on repeat for a while.

Nathaniel Wakelam (Naffy)

Recon Sunday with Naffy

Naffy hitting you with that real talk, emphasizing the importance of time spent, a good foundation, and not to rely on tools.

Jason Haddix (jhaddix)

The Bug Hunter's Methodology Full 2-hour Resource

Jason walks through his entire recon methodology on a live target, sharing how there's a class of hidden bounties.

Patrik Fehrenbach (ITSecurityGuard)

Sunday Live Recon with ITSecurityGuard

Patrik walks us through his recon process, sharing his love for amass. He also covers how he uses SecurityTrails, and more. Representing the HackerOne community.

Jeff Foley (Caffix)

OWASP Amass Red Team Village Resource

Want to know the ins and outs of amass? Amass creator Jeff shows you all there is to know. Did you know there was an Amass community?.

Ben Bidmead (pry0cc)

Introduction to Axiom - The Dynamic Infrastructure Framework for Everybody

In this talk, Ben give a crash-course on axiom and how to use it. He also perform a live demo of axiom using 170 instances. Founder of 0x00sec community.

rez0 @ NahamCon 2021

ffuf scripts and tricksDEMO

Presentation by rez0 for NahamCon 2021 on the topic of the web fuzzer ffuf

Nathanial (d0nutptr)

Building Faster Than Light Reconnaissance

Ever want to build your very own high performance recon tooling? Come learn some of the techniques to use and mistakes to avoid when writing your own recon tools.

Pieter (Honoki)

BBRF - Kickstart your reconDEMO

The Bug Bounty Reconnaissance Framework (BBRF) can be used to coordinate your reconnaissance workflows across multiple devices.