Also known as forced browse, directory brute forcing is the process of requesting files and server directories to which there are no direct links in the application or the server's pages. This is usually done by getting the directory and filenames from a common names list. Kali Linux includes some tools to accomplish this task. We will explore two of them here.
Directory brute forcing
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