subdomain-takeover

subdomain-takeover is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from JustineDevs/premortem. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,780 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of subdomain-takeover, Apache-2.0.

A guide to detecting subdomain takeover, a problem where a domain points to an external service that no longer exists but can still be claimed by someone else.

In plain words
What is it for?
It supports checking CNAME, NS, and MX records, matching cloud or SaaS service fingerprints, handling provider claim steps, and monitoring for future takeovers.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish an ordinary DNS record from a genuinely claimable abandoned resource, reducing the risk of serving attacker-controlled content on a trusted domain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It supports checking CNAME, NS, and MX records, matching cloud or SaaS service fingerprints, handling provider claim steps, and monitoring for future takeovers.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/justinedevs/premortem/subdomain-takeover
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add JustineDevs/premortem --skill subdomain-takeover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JustineDevs/premortem

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,780 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00061 $0.02780
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01390
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00556
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00278

Measured 6d ago against content hash cc79ff339a65, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

subdomain-takeover scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 6d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

1. Confirm: curl -s http://sub.target.com → "NoSuchBucket"
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to subdomain-takeover — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/subdomain-takeover/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SKILL: Subdomain Takeover — Detection & Exploitation Playbook

AI LOAD INSTRUCTION: Covers CNAME/NS/MX takeover, per-provider fingerprint matching, claim procedures, and defensive monitoring. Base models often confuse "CNAME exists" with "takeover possible" — the key is whether the resource behind the CNAME is unclaimed and claimable.


1. CORE CONCEPT

Subdomain takeover occurs when:

  1. sub.target.com has a DNS record (CNAME, NS, A) pointing to an external service
  2. The external resource is no longer provisioned (deleted S3 bucket, removed Heroku app, etc.)
  3. The attacker can register/claim that exact resource name on the provider
  4. The attacker now controls content served under sub.target.com

Impact: cookie theft (parent domain cookies), OAuth token interception, phishing under trusted domain, CORS bypass, CSP bypass via whitelisted subdomain.


2. DETECTION METHODOLOGY

2.1 CNAME Enumeration

1. Collect subdomains (amass, subfinder, assetfinder, crt.sh, SecurityTrails)
2. Resolve DNS for each:
   dig CNAME sub.target.com +short
3. For each CNAME → check if the CNAME target returns NXDOMAIN or a provider error
4. Match error response against fingerprint table (Section 3)

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 6d ago First seen · 248 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A cc79ff339a65

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subdomain-takeover is a skill published in the GitHub repository JustineDevs/premortem (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,780 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). It is 100% identical to subdomain-takeover, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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