Awesome Hacker Search Engines 
A curated list of awesome search engines useful during Penetration testing, Vulnerability assessments, Red/Blue Team operations, Bug Bounty and more
General •
Servers •
Vulnerabilities •
Exploits •
Attack surface •
Code •
Email addresses •
Domains •
URLs •
DNS •
Certificates •
WiFi networks •
Device Info •
Credentials •
Leaks •
Hidden Services •
Social Networks •
Phone numbers •
Images •
Threat Intelligence •
Web History •
Files •
Surveillance cameras •
Crypto •
People •
Vehicle
General Search Engines
Servers
- Shodan - Search Engine for the Internet of Everything
- Censys Search - Search Engine for every server on the Internet to reduce exposure and improve security
- Onyphe.io - Cyber Defense Search Engine for open-source and cyber threat intelligence data
- ZoomEye - Global cyberspace mapping
- GreyNoise - The source for understanding internet noise
- Natlas - Scaling Network Scanning
- Netlas.io - Discover, Research and Monitor any Assets Available Online
- FOFA - Cyberspace mapping
- Quake - Cyberspace surveying and mapping system
- Hunter - Internet Search Engines For Security Researchers
- ODIN - One of the most powerful search engines for Scanned Internet Assets
- Modat Magnify - The Largest Internet Device DNA Dataset Available
Vulnerabilities
Exploits
- Exploit-DB - Exploit Database
- Sploitus - Convenient central place for identifying the newest exploits
- Rapid7 - DB - Vulnerability & Exploit Database
- Vulmon - Vulnerability and exploit search engine
- packetstormsecurity.com - Information Security Services, News, Files, Tools, Exploits, Advisories and Whitepapers
- Living Off The Land Binaries, Scripts and Libraries - Living Off The Land Binaries, Scripts and Libraries
- GTFOBins - Curated list of Unix binaries that can be used to bypass local security restrictions in misconfigured systems
- Payloads All The Things - A list of useful payloads and bypasses for Web Application Security
- XSS Payloads - The wonderland of JavaScript unexpected usages, and more
- exploitalert.com - Database of Exploits
- Reverse Shell generator - Online Reverse Shell generator with Local Storage functionality, URI & Base64 Encoding, MSFVenom Generator, and Raw Mode
- HackerOne hacktivity - See the latest hacker activity on HackerOne
- Bugcrowd Crowdstream - Showcase of accepted and disclosed submissions on Bugcrowd programs
- GTFOArgs - Curated list of Unix binaries that can be manipulated for argument injection
- shell-storm.org/shellcode - Shellcodes database for study cases
- Hacking the Cloud - Encyclopedia of the attacks/tactics/techniques that offensive security professionals can use on their next cloud exploitation adventure
- Living Off The Land Drivers - Open-source project that brings together vulnerable, malicious, and known malicious Windows drivers
Attack Surface
- FullHunt.io - Attack surface database of the entire Internet
- BinaryEdge - We scan the web and gather data for you
- Censys ASM - Attack Surface Management Solutions
- RedHunt Labs - Discover your Attack Surface, Continuously
- SecurityTrails - The Total Internet Inventory
- overcast-security.com - We make tracking your external attack surface easy
- IPInfo.io - The trusted source for IP address data
- IPData.co - IP Geolocation and Threat Intelligence API
- NetworksDB - Information about the public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, networks and domains owned by companies and organisations across the world
- ASNlookup - Quickly lookup updated information about specific Autonomous System Number (ASN), Organization, CIDR, or registered IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) among other relevant data
- BGPtools - Browse the Internet ecosystem
- BGPview - Debug and investigate information about IP addresses, ASN, IXs, BGP, ISPs, Prefixes and Domain names
- BigDataCloud - The API provides comprehensive location and network data
- RADb - The world's largest public routing registry
- Deepinfo - Empower your security with the most comprehensive Internet data
- CloudFlare Radar - Global Internet traffic, attack, and technology trends and insights
- IPIP - The only IP Database based on real time BGP/ASN data analytics
- Hurricane Electric BGP - The Hurricane Electric BGP Toolkit is free to use. Look up ASN from IP address
Code
- GitHub Code Search - Search globally across all of GitHub, or scope your search to a particular repository or organization
- GitLab Code Search - Advanced search for faster, more efficient search across the entire GitLab instance
- Sourceforge - Complete Open-Source and Business Software Platform
- grep.app - Search across a half million git repos
- publicwww.com - Find any alphanumeric snippet, signature or keyword in the web pages HTML, JS and CSS code
- SearchCode - Search 75 billion lines of code from 40 million projects
- NerdyData - Find companies based on their website's tech stack or code
- RepoSearch - Source code search engine that helps you find implementation details, example usages or just analyze code
- SourceGraph - Understand and search across your entire codebase
- HotExamples - Search code examples from over 1 million projects
- WP Directory - Lightning fast regex searching of code in the WordPress Plugin and Theme Directories
- GitHub Gists - Instantly share code, notes, and snippets
- CodeBerg - Collaboration platform and Git hosting for free and open source software, content and projects
- Fedora Pagure - Open Source software code hosting system
- LaunchPad - Software collaboration platform that provides: Bug tracking, Code hosting, Code reviews, Ubuntu package building and hosting, Translations...
- repo.or.cz - Public Git hosting site
- gitorious.org - Read-only mirror of the former gitorious.org code hosting website
Email Addresses
- Hunter.io - Find professional email addresses in seconds
- PhoneBook - Lists all domains, email addresses, or URLs for the given input domain
- IntelligenceX - Search engine and data archive
- Reacher.email - Open-Source Email Verification
- RocketReach - Your first-degree connection to any professional
- email-format.com - Find the email address formats in use at thousands of companies
- EmailHippo - Email address verification technology
- ThatsThem - Reverse email lookup
- verify-email.org - Checks whether the mailbox exists or not
- Melissa - Emailcheck - Check email addresses and verify they are live
- VoilaNorbert - I can find anyone's email address
- SynapsInt - The unified OSINT research tool
- skymem.info - Find email addresses of companies and people
- findemails.com - Find Anyone's Email Address in Seconds
- Experte email finder - Find the right email address, even if you only know the name and the company
- EmailSherlock - Search for the Person behind the Email address and find our reputation score
- Anymail Finder - Find verified emails
- Tomba.io - With 430+ million email addresses indexed, effective search filters, and deliverability checks, Tomba's email finder is its most powerful tool
- Snov Email Finder Find any email. Anywhere
Domains
URLs
- PhoneBook - Lists all domains, email addresses, or URLs for the given input domain
- IntelligenceX - Search engine and data archive
- URLScan - A sandbox for the web
- HackerTarget - Collect information about IP Addresses, Networks, Web Pages and DNS records
- MOZ Link Explorer - The world's best backlink checker with over 40 trillion links
- shorteners.grayhatwarfare.com - Search URLs exposed by Shortener services
- CommonCrawl Index - Open repository of web crawl data
- URLVoid - Check the online reputation/safety of a website
- Norton SafeWeb - Look up a site, Get our rating
- CheckPhish - Real-time URL and website scanner
- web-check.xyz - All-in-one OSINT tool, for quickly checking a websites data
- TinyScan - Effortlessly Dive into URL Details
- urldna.io - Unleash website insights! urldna.io analyzes data, monitors brands and exposes security risks
DNS
- DNSDumpster - DNS recon & research, find & lookup dns records
- Chaos - Enhance research and analyse changes around DNS for better insights
- RapidDNS - DNS query tool which make querying subdomains or sites of a same ip easy
- DNSdb - Passive DNS historical database
- Omnisint - Reverse DNS lookup
- HackerTarget - Collect information about IP Addresses, Networks, Web Pages and DNS records
- passivedns.mnemonic.no - Web interface for querying passive DNS data collected in our malware lab
- ptrarchive.com - Over 230 billion reverse DNS entries from 2008 to the present
- dnshistory.org - Domain Name System Historical Record Archive
- DNSTwister - The anti-phishing domain name search engine and DNS monitoring service
- DNSviz - Tool for visualizing the status of a DNS zone
- C99.nl - Over 57 quality API's and growing
- wannabe1337.xyz - Online Tools
- DNSlytics - Find out everything about a domain name, IP address or provider
- dnsrepo.noc.org - DNS Database Repository Search
- DNSSpy - Monitor, validate and verify your DNS configurations
- ZETAlytics - We offer unrivalled geographic diversity and exclusive global network visibility in searchable datasets for use by cyber security analysts
- AskDNS - Lookup Connected Domain Names and IP Addresses
- 360 PassiveDNS.CN - Biggest public available db in China designed for security and research purpose
Certificates
- Crt.sh - Certificate Search
- CTSearch - Certificate Transparency Search Tool
- tls.bufferover.run - Quickly find certificates in IPv4 space
- CertSpotter - Monitors your domains for expiring, unauthorized, and invalid SSL certificates
- SynapsInt - The unified OSINT research tool
- Censys Search - Certificates - Certificates Search
- ciphersuite.info - TLS Ciphersuite Search. Search for a particular cipher suite by using IANA, OpenSSL or GnuTLS name format
- certificatedetails - Online certificate viewer. Inspect and download certificates from your browser
- FacebookCT - Search for certificates issued for a given domain and subscribe to notifications from Facebook regarding new certificates
- certs.io - Search TLS certificates across the internet.
- ODIN Certificates Search - ODIN Certificates Search
WiFi Networks
- Wigle.net - Maps and database of 802.11 wireless networks with statistics
- wifimap.io - Connect to all Free WiFi Hotspots using WiFi Map App all over the World!
- wificafespots.com - Free WiFi Cafe Spots
- wifispc.com - Free map of Wi-Fi passwords anywhere you go!
- openwifimap.net - HTML5 map with OpenWiFiMap data
- mylnikov.org - Public API implementation of Wi-Fi Geo-Location database
- wifidb.net - Project to collect wireless access points gathered by Vistumbler or other wireless network scanners
- freifunk-karte.de - Online map of free, publicly accessible, non-commercial, and uncensored Wi-Fi access points in Germany
Credentials
- Have I Been Pwned - Check if your email or phone is in a data breach
- Dehashed - Free deep-web scans and protection against credential leaks
- LeakCheck.io - Make sure your credentials haven't been compromised
- crackstation.net -Massive pre-computed lookup tables to crack password hashes
- HashKiller - Pre-cracked Hashes, easily searchable
- LeakedPassword - Search across multiple data breaches to see if your pass has been compromised
- BugMeNot - Find and share logins
- Hashes.com - Decrypt and crack your MD5, SHA1, SHA256, MySQL, MD5 Email, SHA256 Email, and NTLM hashes for free online
- Hashmob - The Largest Password Recovery Community
- WhiteIntel - Check if a company or its customers was victim of an information stealer malware
- ntlm.pw - Instantly look up NTLM hashes and resolve them to plaintext passwords using our database with 8B+ entries
- Hudson Rock - Use Hudson Rock’s free cybercrime intelligence tools to learn how compromised credentials are impacting your business
- hackedlist.io - Enter your domain to find credentials compromised by info-stealer malware
- HaveIBeenSold - Lets you find out whether or not your email has been sold to third parties
- Leak.sx - The best leaked accounts website you always wanted
- ScatteredSecrets - Search data breaches to see if your password has been compromised
- InfoStealers.info - OSINT made simple. Instant insights from Infostealer data
- - AI-powered platform for credential leak monitoring, infostealer intelligence and breach investigations
Leaks
- WikiLeaks - News leaks and classified media provided by anonymous sources
- Leak-Lookup - Search across thousands of data breaches
- Snusbase - Stay on top of the latest database breaches
- Weleakinfo - View dehashed breached databases
- breachdirectory.org - Check if your information was exposed in a data breach
- BreachForums - Breaches, Data leaks, databases and more
- Siph0n Breach DB (onionsite) - Breaches, Data leaks, Exploits
- Exposed Forum - The premier Databreach discussion & leaks forum
- Distributed Denial of Secrets - Journalist 501(c)(3) non-profit devoted to publishing and archiving leaks
- Have I Been Zuckered - Facebook Data Breach Checker
- Cryptome - Documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide
- LeakPeek - Search for your publicly leaked passwords using an email or username, secure your personal data
- BreachCheck.io - Free service for consumers that allows you to check and download a list of your personal data exposed in various databreaches
- OCCRP Aleph - The global archive of research material for investigative reporting
- LeakRadar - We collect publicly published infostealer logs so you can quickly check if your email credentials have been compromised
- Offshore Leaks - Find out who's behind more than 800000 offshore companies, foundations and trusts from ICIJ's investigations
- Venacus - Search across 70+ TB of data breaches and leaked documents
- - Enterprise-grade threat intelligence to identify compromised credentials and secure your digital assets against data breaches
Hidden Services
Social Networks
These can be useful for osint and social engineering.
Phone Numbers
Images
- Google Image Search - The most comprehensive image search on the web
- Baidu Image - Baidu Image Search
- Yahoo Image - Yahoo Image Search
- Yandex Image - Yandex Image Search
- Facecheck.id - Search for people by photo and verify you are talking to the person they claim to be
- Bing Visual Search - See it, search it
- Reverse Image Search - Super-fast image finder that helps you find similar images online
- Reverse Image - Find Where Images Appear Online
- Pixsy - Find and fight image theft
- Pimeyes - Face Search Engine, Reverse Image Search
- Pictriev - Find look-alike celebrities on the web using the face recognition
- Karmadecay - Reverse image search of Reddit.com
- Infringement Report - The web's best image copyright infringement search tool
- Tineye - Image search and recognition company
- Flickr - Home to tens of billions of photos and 2 million groups
- Sogou - Chinese technology company that offers a search engine
- Jimpl - Online photo metadata and EXIF data viewer
- Same Energy - Find beautiful images
- Pixabay - Stunning royalty-free images & royalty-free stock
- FotoForensics - Tools and training for digital picture analysis, including error level analysis, metadata, and tutorials
Threat Intelligence
Web History
- Web Archive - Explore more than 702 billion web pages saved over time
- Archive.ph - Create a copy of a webpage that will always be up even if the original link is down
- CachedPages - Get the cached page of any URL
- stored.website - View cached web pages/website
- CommonCrawl - Open repository of web crawl data
- UK Web Archive - Collects millions of websites each year, preserving them for future generations
- Arquivo - Non-profit service that maintains information published on the web of interest to the Portuguese community
- Archive-It - An archive of digital government and non-government organization (NGO) documents and reports
- HAW - Croatian Web Archive
Files
- Pastebin - Website where you can store text online for a set period of time
- Mega - Secure and private cloud storage for everyone. Store and share files, chat, meet, back up, sync, and more
- 4Shared - Search, Store and Share easily. Upload, discover and share files without a hitch
- files.fm - Explore content shared by community
- edisk.cz - Online storage for backing up, sharing and searching for photos, videos, music and other files
- doodstream - DoodStream Search Engine
- UVRX Search - Most comprehensive online file storage search engine
- filesearch.link - You can search archives, programs, videos, music, books and more
- RapidGators Search - Search for files stored on the rapidgator cloud
Surveillance cameras
Crypto
People
- TruePeopleSearch - Free people search tool. Search billions of public records
- TruthFinder - A people search is a quick and simple way to find information on someone by name
- BeenVerified - BeenVerified's mission is to give people easy and affordable access to public record information
- ZabaSearch - Free* People Search and Public Information Search Engine
- PeekYou - Fast People Search Made Easy
- PeopleFinders - People Search
- Pipl - The #1 source for identity & trust
- That's Them - Find Someone's Contact Details By Name
- snitch.name - Social White Pages application with helps you Search for People's Profiles on Social Sites
- Webmii - People search engine
- FastPeopleSearch - Find a person by name, phone number, or street address
- Sorted By Name - A curated collection of links to genealogy details mentioned on other websites, or acquired by the webmaster
- Radaris - Find People Fast and Free
- Addresses.com - Free People Search and Public Information Search Engine
- Advanced Background Checks - Free People Search
- Yasni - Search phone, email, address for any name. News, pictures & links for any person. Find anyone on the internet with the world's largest free people search
- USA Data Search - The USA official website provides access to public data that can be searched and viewed by anyone
- AnyWho - Finding People, Places, and Businesses
Vehicle
- License Plate Owner API - DPPA-compliant vehicle lookup API for license plate investigations
- FaxVin - Up-to-date records for a used vehicle: odometer readings, title brands and lien status, accident and damage history, recalls
- EpicVin - VIN check about the vehicle's history, price, damages, title records, recalls
- AutoCheck Vehicle History - Search for vehicle history records with a valid US license plate number
- GOV.UK Vehicle Information - Check online to find out what information the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) holds about a vehicle
- PlatesMania - Largest Internet project dedicated to vehicle registration plates, platespotting and everything pertaining to them
- auto-info.gratis - After providing your vehicle's license plate number, you'll receive:
make, model, year of manufacture, engine size and all available information
Unclassified
- DorkSearch - Speed up your Dorking
- usersearch.org - Find someone by username or email on Social Networks, Dating Sites, Forums, Crypto Forums, Chat Sites and Blogs
- Wappalyzer - Instant access to website technology stacks, company and contact details, social media profiles, email verification and more
- Awakari - Real-Time Search from unlimited sources like RSS, Fediverse, Telegram, etc. Filter events by keywords, numeric conditions, condition groups
- CanIUse.com - Browser support tables for modern web technologies
- Known Agents - Track and Control Artificial Agents Crawling Your Website
- Not Human Search - Search engine for AI agent tools and infrastructure. Indexes 1,750+ sites ranked by agentic readiness score with REST API and MCP server
Not working / Paused
- DNS.BufferOver.run
- NetoGraph - Captures and indexes detailed, low-level snapshots of website behaviour
- Hashdd - Known Good Cryptographic Hashes
- CVE Trends - Monitor trending CVEs in real-time; crowdsourced intel sourced from Twitter, NIST NVD, Reddit, and GitHub
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