projectdiscovery/alterx

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1008 stars · 78 forks observed · 2026-09-25

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-09-07, confidence 0.95

AlterX is a fast, customizable subdomain wordlist generator written in Go that uses a DSL for defining permutation patterns. It supports automatic word enrichment, pattern mining to discover subdomain naming conventions, and stdin or file input, fitting well into reconnaissance pipelines.

Use cases

• generate subdomain permutations for dns brute-forcing
• discover naming patterns in a company's subdomains
• pipe subfinder output into a permutation wordlist
• build custom subdomain patterns with a dsl
• enrich wordlists with years and env prefixes like dev and staging
• speed up active subdomain enumeration during bug bounty recon

When to choose

• you already have a list of known subdomains and want likely permutations
• you want an actively maintained Go alternative to altdns or regulator
• you need scriptable, pattern-based wordlist generation inside a recon pipeline

When to avoid

• you have no existing subdomains to seed the permutation process
• you need passive subdomain discovery rather than permutation
• you want a gui-driven reconnaissance tool

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

security parser data-generation cli security osint developer-tools cli windows go subdomain-enumeration wordlist-generator permutation dsl bug-bounty recon penetration-testing command-line linux macos

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