HOWTO : DirBuster on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04 LTS

DirBuster is a multi threaded java application designed to brute force directories and files names on web/application servers.

Step 1 :

sudo -sH

cd /opt

wget "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dirbuster/DirBuster%20%28jar%20%2B%20lists%29/1.0-RC1/DirBuster-1.0-RC1.tar.bz2?r=http%3A%2F%2Fsourceforge.net%2Fprojects%2Fdirbuster%2Ffiles%2FDirBuster%2520%2528jar%2520%252B%2520lists%2529%2F1.0-RC1%2F&ts=1370262745&use_mirror=nchc" -O DirBuster-1.0-RC1.tar.bz2

tar -xjvf DirBuster-1.0-RC1.tar.bz2

mv DirBuster-1.0-RC1 DirBuster

rm DirBuster-1.0-RC1.tar.bz2

Step 2 :

To run it.

sudo -sH

cd /opt/DirBuster

./DirBuster-1.0-RC1.sh