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Payload Environment Variables

For accessing these resources in a quick manner, several environment variables have been defined:

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Environment VariableValue
$PAYLOADS/usr/share/payloads
$AUTOWORDLISTS/usr/share/payloads/Auto_Wordlists
$FUZZDB/usr/share/payloads/FuzzDB
$PAYLOADSALLTHETHINGS/usr/share/payloads/PayloadsAllTheThings
$SECLISTS/usr/share/payloads/SecLists
$SECURITYWORDLIST/usr/share/payloads/Security-Wordlist
$MIMIKATZ/usr/share/windows/mimikatz
$POWERSPLOIT/usr/share/windows/powersploit
$ROCKYOU/usr/share/payloads/SecLists/Passwords/Leaked-Databases/rockyou.txt
$DIRBIG/usr/share/payloads/SecLists/Discovery/Web-Content/directory-list-2.3-big.txt
$DIRMEDIUM/usr/share/payloads/SecLists/Discovery/Web-Content/directory-list-2.3-medium.txt
$DIRSMALL/usr/share/payloads/SecLists/Discovery/Web-Content/directory-list-2.3-small.txt
$WEBAPI_COMMON/usr/share/payloads/SecLists/Discovery/Web-Content/api/api-endpoints.txt
$WEBAPI_MAZEN/usr/share/payloads/SecLists/Discovery/Web-Content/common-api-endpoints-mazen160.txt
$WEBCOMMON/usr/share/payloads/SecLists/Discovery/Web-Content/common.txt
$WEBPARAM/usr/share/payloads/SecLists/Discovery/Web-Content/burp-parameter-names.txt

In this manner, you can retrieve the needed payloads with less effort, for example:

Terminal window
ffuf -u <target_url> -w $DIRSMALL

or

Terminal window
john file.hash --wordlist=$ROCKYOU