---
id: 4755
title: "Recon Series #6: Excavating hidden artifacts with Wayback Machine and other web-archive tools"
source_domain: yeswehack.com
source_url: "https://www.yeswehack.com/learn-bug-bounty/recon-wayback-machine-web-archive"
published_at: "2025-06-13 13:00"
tags: ["bug-bounty", "osint", "recon", "wayback-machine", "web-archives", "passive-recon"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4755"
lang: en
---

# Recon Series #6: Excavating hidden artifacts with Wayback Machine and other web-archive tools

## Summary

Recon series #6 explains archive-based reconnaissance with Wayback Machine, CommonCrawl, Archive.today and URLScan to recover deprecated endpoints, embedded secrets and forgotten admin panels.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** yeswehack.com
- **Published:** 2025-06-13 13:00
- **Original:** https://www.yeswehack.com/learn-bug-bounty/recon-wayback-machine-web-archive
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4755