subdomain-takeover

subdomain-takeover is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from miru-zero/zero-brain. It costs 61 tokens per session (2,797 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of subdomain-takeover, MIT.

A guide to detecting subdomain takeover, where a domain points to an external service that has been deleted or left unclaimed. An attacker may then claim that service and publish content under the domain.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect CNAME, NS, and MX records, identify affected providers, verify whether resources are claimable, and assess related domain risks.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish harmless DNS records from records that expose a real, claimable security weakness.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/miru-zero/zero-brain/subdomain-takeover
Any agent
npx skills add miru-zero/zero-brain --skill subdomain-takeover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/miru-zero/zero-brain

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 2,797 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin 95% 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 $0.02797
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01399
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00280

Measured 2d ago against content hash 31066fc8c9e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 2d 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

95% identical to subdomain-takeover — 7 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.

skills/subdomain-takeover/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 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 · 245 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. 2d ago First seen · 245 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A 31066fc8c9e2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

subdomain-takeover is a skill published in the GitHub repository miru-zero/zero-brain (0 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 2,797 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 95% identical to subdomain-takeover, differing in 7 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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