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Ever feel like recon is a game of roulette? You spin that wheel, drop a penny on one asset, and hope it lands on something juicy instead of a broke noodle. Well — on one reckless 3 AM recon session — I hit black. Hard. And what felt like a lucky spin turned into one of my biggest bounties yet.
It all began with my usual recon arsenal:
- Passive enumeration with tools like Subfinder and Amass
- Historical asset collection via waybackurls and the Wayback Machine
- Crawling for secrets using
ffuf,gf, and regex search on endpoints
I stumbled on something bizarre: an old subdomain beta.backup.old-api.target.com lingering in scope. It wasn't in use, but DNS still pointed to an AWS service that didn’t exist. Cue the hacker senses tingling.