subdomain-takeover

subdomain-takeover is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from woohyun212/security-skill. It costs 16 tokens per session (3,471 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A security-testing guide for subdomain takeover, where a subdomain still points to an outside service that no longer has the claimed resource. It checks DNS CNAME records, web responses, and whether the abandoned resource can be claimed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after subdomain discovery, during authorized bug-bounty work, or when reviewing DNS after decommissioning or cloud migration. It checks supported third-party service fingerprints and requires dig, curl, and httpx.
Why use it?
It helps find forgotten DNS entries after services are removed or migrations finish. Such entries can let an attacker host content under an organization's subdomain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it after subdomain discovery, during authorized bug-bounty work, or when reviewing DNS after decommissioning or cloud migration. It checks supported third-party service fingerprints and requires dig, curl, and httpx.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/woohyun212/security-skill/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 woohyun212/security-skill --skill subdomain-takeover
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/woohyun212/security-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,471 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 original No closer match found 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 $0.00016 $0.03471
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.01736
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00694
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00347

Measured 9d ago against content hash e75ea71c354d, 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 9d 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.

- `curl` installed
subdomain-takeover/SKILL.md · 295 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 295 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What this skill does

Detects and verifies subdomain takeover vulnerabilities by identifying dangling DNS CNAME records that point to unclaimed or deprovisioned third-party services. For each CNAME, resolves the target, checks the HTTP response against known vulnerable-service fingerprints, and confirms exploitability by verifying the resource can be claimed. Covers 18+ vulnerable services including GitHub Pages, AWS S3, Heroku, Netlify, Azure (Traffic Manager, Blob, CloudApp), Shopify, Fastly, Ghost, Pantheon, Tumblr, WordPress.com, Cargo Collective, Surge.sh, Bitbucket, Zendesk, Readme.io, and Statuspage.

When to use

  • During recon on a bug bounty program to find high-impact, low-effort findings
  • After subdomain enumeration (e.g. from the subdomain-enum skill) to check each live CNAME
  • When auditing an organization's DNS records for hygiene and dangling entries
  • After a product decommissioning or cloud migration to verify DNS cleanup was complete

Prerequisites

  • dig installed (part of dnsutils on Debian/Ubuntu, bind-utils on RHEL/CentOS):
    apt install dnsutils   # Debian/Ubuntu
    
  • curl installed
  • httpx installed (for bulk HTTP probing):
    go install -v github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx/cmd/httpx@latest
    
  • One of the following automated scanners (choose one):
    • subjack:
      go install github.com/haccer/subjack@latest
      
    • nuclei with takeover templates:
      go install -v github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei/v3/cmd/nuclei@latest
      nuclei -update-templates
      
  • Environment variable SECSKILL_TARGET_DOMAIN: target root domain
  • Environment variable SECSKILL_SUBDOMAIN_LIST: path to a file of subdomains (one per line); can be output from the subdomain-enum skill

Inputs

Variable Required Description
SECSKILL_SUBDOMAIN_LIST required Path to file containing subdomains to check (one per line)
SECSKILL_TARGET_DOMAIN required Root domain (used for labeling output files)
SECSKILL_OUTPUT_DIR optional Directory to save results (default: ./output)
SECSKILL_USE_SUBJACK optional Set to true to run subjack (default: false)
SECSKILL_USE_NUCLEI optional Set to true to run nuclei takeover templates (default: false)

Read the full file on GitHub · 295 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 295 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A e75ea71c354d

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subdomain-takeover is a skill published in the GitHub repository woohyun212/security-skill (21 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 3,471 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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