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Recursive FTP Searching

ID: 17c85b20-21af-514b-bf1f-85f3d33200d1

STIX ID: report--17c85b20-21af-514b-bf1f-85f3d33200d1

Feed Name: TrustedSec blog

Date Published: 2025-03-19

Date Updated: 2026-05-01

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This guide demonstrates using lftp's "find" command to recursively list and search files on FTP servers (with examples for .txt and .sh files), includes installation steps on Kali, compares lftp to wget's spider mode, and advises that lftp can substantially speed up penetration-testing file discovery on large FTP shares.

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