Source: dnstwist Section: net Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Security Tools Uploaders: Peter Wienemann Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-python, python3-all, python3-setuptools Standards-Version: 4.6.2 Rules-Requires-Root: no Homepage: https://github.com/elceef/dnstwist Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/dnstwist Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-security-team/dnstwist.git Package: dnstwist Architecture: all Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${python3:Depends} Recommends: ca-certificates, python3-dnspython, python3-geoip, python3-idna, python3-pil, python3-selenium, python3-ssdeep, python3-tld, python3-tlsh Suggests: libjs-jquery, python3-flask Description: Domain name permutation engine dnstwist generates a list of similarly looking domain names for a given domain name and performs DNS queries for them (A, AAAA, NS and MX). For MX records it checks whether there is an active mail server which could be used to intercept misdirected emails. Additionally it estimates webpage similarity based on fuzzy hashes. This functionality might be helpful in detecting typosquatters, phishing attacks, fraud and corporate espionage.