# musana/CF-Hero

CF-Hero is a reconnaissance tool that uses multiple data sources to discover the origin IP addresses of Cloudflare-protected web applications

Repository: https://github.com/musana/CF-Hero
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cf-hero
Language: Go
License Family: other
Last push: 2026-06-26T05:43:09+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 66/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 89, release rhythm 28, longevity 81
- inputs: {"age_days": 1143, "days_push": 68, "days_rel": 458, "gap_med": 75.0, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2632, forks 253 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:06.104222+00:00)

## What it is
CF-Hero is a Go-based reconnaissance CLI tool that discovers the real origin IP addresses of Cloudflare-protected web applications. It aggregates data from multiple intelligence sources such as ZoomEye, Censys, Shodan, and SecurityTrails, plus DNS records and historical data, and validates findings to reduce false positives.

## Use cases
- find the real IP behind a Cloudflare-protected site
- enumerate DNS records and historical DNS data for a domain
- correlate related domains to locate origin servers
- run OSINT reconnaissance using Shodan, Censys, and ZoomEye
- validate candidate origin IPs through response analysis
- map the attack surface of a target domain

## When to choose
- you need to bypass or audit Cloudflare proxying to find origin IPs
- you want a multi-source OSINT tool that aggregates several search engines in one run
- you prefer a fast, single-binary Go CLI for DNS and intelligence gathering

## When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose vulnerability scanner rather than origin IP discovery
- the target is not behind Cloudflare or a similar CDN proxy
- you require a GUI or web interface instead of a command-line tool
- your use case requires a permissively licensed dependency with an explicit OSS license (the repo has no license file)

## Facets
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: osint, security, networking, cli
- domain: security, osint, networking, penetration-testing
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: cloudflare, reconnaissance, origin-ip-discovery, dns-recon, attack-surface, go, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- musana/CF-Hero (main) score 66

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.104222+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:19:36.390791+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/musana/CF-Hero (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.104222+00:00, sha 99d35979a51a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.