Whatweb and Dirb

Whatweb

whatweb command identifies different web-technologies running on a certain website.
Detects javascript libraries used for designing websites
System technologies running on website.
If you type the following command
whatweb -v <your-ip-address>
- Gives detailed information about things running on website for planning further attack.
Type the command whatweb to find other options you can explore.
verbose command (whatweb -v <your ip address>) would give a list of technologies running on a particular ip-address

dirb scans fr directories that are not found in the page.
Tries to find web-pages with different extensions.
dirb brute-forces the website with directories and
- If status code == 200, print, page exists
- If status code == 404, print, page doesn't exists
Type the following command to see how dirb works:
root@kali:/usr/share/wordlists/dirb# dirb http://<your ip address> /usr/share/wordlists/dirb/common.txt