Search for certificates on a domain

  • Updated on Jan 28, 2024
  • Published on Mar 17, 2023
  • 1 minute(s) read
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Keeping a record of domain certificates is an important aspect of maintaining a strong cyber security posture, and protecting an organization's assets, reputation, and operations against downtime and/or malicious behaviour.

Certificates are also important from a complicance perspective. Organizations need to demonstrate due diligence and accountability in the event of a security incident, to help protect the company from legal liability and regulatory action.

  1. Navigate to Advanced Query Builder > Domain Queries > Certificates

  2. Specify a domain

  3. (Optional) Tick with_metadata to include metadata

  4. (Optional) Specify a date in date_min to include only domains that have had SSL certificates issued on or after the given date

  5. (Optional) Specify a date_max to only include domains that have had SSL certificates issued on or before the given date

  6. (Optional) Specify a number in limit that chooses the number of results to return

  7. (Optional) Choose wether or not to wait for results for longer running queries by choosing job_id for immediate results, or result to wait

  8. (Optional) Enter a regular expression match in domain_regex. This must be valid re2 regular expression. Choosing a regex overrides the 'domain' parameter

  9. (Optional) Specify a cert_issuer to only include domains that have had SSL certificates issued using the named certificate issuer. Wildcards are supported

  10. (Optiona) Use skip to choose an amount of results to skip

  11. (Optional) Enter a value in max_wait to specify the number of seconds to wait for results before returning the Job ID

  12. Click Search

Saving queries

Organizational users are able to save individual queries ran from Advanced Query Builder, and store them in the Private Queries menu for future analysis, or to share with their organization.

  1. Specify the query parameters

  2. Click Save Query

  3. Give your query a Name

  4. Specify a Description to add more context

  5. Click Save