Weird “Subdomain Take Over” pattern of Amazon S3

secureITmania
entersoftsecurity
Published in
5 min readMay 31, 2020

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Thanks for huge response to my previous write-ups. Recently I participated in a Bug Bounty program and I have found “Sub-domain takeover” issue by leveraging the Amazon S3 hosting service.

Even though you have an idea on the subdomain takeover via AWS S3. In this write-up, I will show the non-typical way of S3 subdomain takeover and also show the OSINT process to find the s3 regions and finally how I found the correct region of the target.

Introduction — Sub-Domain & S3

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