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Command-line tool to scan search results for vulnerabilities

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dorkbot

Scan Google (or other) search results for vulnerabilities.

dorkbot is a modular command-line tool for performing vulnerability scans against sets of webpages returned by Google search queries or other supported sources. It is broken up into two sets of modules:

  • Indexers - modules that return a list of targets
  • Scanners - modules that perform a vulnerability scan against each target

Targets are stored in a database as they are indexed. Once scanned, a standard JSON report is produced containing any vulnerabilities found. Indexing and scanning processes can be run separately or combined in a single command (up to one of each).

Quickstart

  • Create a Google API credential via the Developer Console
  • Create a Google Custom Search Engine and note the search engine ID, e.g. 012345678901234567891:abc12defg3h
$ pip3 install dorkbot wapiti3
$ dorkbot -i google_api -o key=your_api_credential_here -o engine=your_engine_id_here -o query="filetype:php inurl:id"
$ dorkbot -s wapiti

Help

 -h, --help            Show program (or specified module) help
  --show-defaults       Show default values in help output

Usage

usage: dorkbot [-c CONFIG] [-r DIRECTORY] [--source [SOURCE]]
               [--show-defaults] [--count COUNT] [--random] [-h]
               [--log LOG] [-v] [-V] [-d DATABASE] [-u] [-l]
               [--list-unscanned] [--add-target TARGET]
               [--delete-target TARGET] [--flush-targets] [-i INDEXER]
               [-o INDEXER_ARG] [-s SCANNER] [-p SCANNER_ARG] [-f]
               [--list-blocklist] [--add-blocklist-item ITEM]
               [--delete-blocklist-item ITEM] [--flush-blocklist]
               [-b EXTERNAL_BLOCKLIST]

options:
  -c, --config CONFIG   Configuration file
  -r, --directory DIRECTORY
                        Dorkbot directory (default location of db, tools,
                        reports)
  --source [SOURCE]     Label associated with targets
  --show-defaults       Show default values in help output
  -h, --help            Show program (or specified module) help
  --log LOG             Path to log file
  -v, --verbose         Enable verbose logging (can be used multiple times to
                        increase verbosity)
  -V, --version         Print version

retrieval:
  --count COUNT         number of targets to retrieve, or -1 for all
  --random              retrieve targets in random order

database:
  -d, --database DATABASE
                        Database file/uri
  -u, --prune           Apply fingerprinting and blocklist without scanning

targets:
  -l, --list-targets    List targets in database
  --list-unscanned      List unscanned targets in database
  --add-target TARGET   Add a url to the target database
  --delete-target TARGET
                        Delete a url from the target database
  --flush-targets       Delete all targets

indexing:
  -i, --indexer INDEXER
                        Indexer module to use
  -o, --indexer-arg INDEXER_ARG
                        Pass an argument to the indexer module (can be used
                        multiple times)

scanning:
  -s, --scanner SCANNER
                        Scanner module to use
  -p, --scanner-arg SCANNER_ARG
                        Pass an argument to the scanner module (can be used
                        multiple times)

fingerprints:
  -f, --flush-fingerprints
                        Delete all fingerprints of previously-scanned items

blocklist:
  --list-blocklist      List internal blocklist entries
  --add-blocklist-item ITEM
                        Add an ip/host/regex pattern to the internal blocklist
  --delete-blocklist-item ITEM
                        Delete an item from the internal blocklist
  --flush-blocklist     Delete all internal blocklist items
  -b, --external-blocklist EXTERNAL_BLOCKLIST
                        Supplemental external blocklist file/db (can be used
                        multiple times)

Tools / Dependencies

As needed, dorkbot will search for tools in the following order:

  • Directory specified via relevant module option
  • Located in tools directory (within current directory, by default), with the subdirectory named after the tool
  • Available in the user's PATH (e.g. installed system-wide)

Files

All SQLite3 databases, tools, and reports are saved in the dorkbot directory, which by default is the current directory. You can force a specific directory with the --directory flag. Default file paths within this directory are as follows:

  • SQLite3 database file: dorkbot.db
  • External tools directory: tools/
  • Scan report output directory: reports/

Configuration files are by default read from ~/.config/dorkbot/ (Linux / MacOS) or in the Application Data folder (Windows), honoring $XDG_CONFIG_HOME / %APPDATA%. Default file paths within this directory are as follows:

  • Dorkbot configuration file: dorkbot.ini

Config File

The configuration file (dorkbot.ini) can be used to prepopulate certain command-line flags.

Example dorkbot.ini:

[dorkbot]
database=/opt/dorkbot/dorkbot.db
[dorkbot.indexers.wayback]
domain=example.com
[dorkbot.scanners.arachni]
arachni_dir=/opt/arachni
report_dir=/tmp/reports

Blocklist

The blocklist is a list of ip addresses, hostnames, or regular expressions of url patterns that should not be scanned. If a target url matches any item in this list it will be skipped and removed from the database. The internal blocklist is maintained in the dorkbot database, but a separate file or databasecan be specified by passing the appropriate file path or connection uri to --external-blocklist. Targets are matched first against the internal blocklist and then optionally against any provided external blocklists.

Supported external blocklists:

  • postgresql://[server info]
  • phoenixdb://[server info]
  • sqlite3:///path/to/blocklist.db
  • /path/to/blocklist.txt

Example blocklist items:

regex:^[^\?]+$
regex:.*login.*
regex:^https?://[^.]*.example.com/.*
host:www.google.com
ip:127.0.0.1

The first item will remove any target that doesn't contain a question mark, in other words any url that doesn't contain any GET parameters to test. The second attempts to avoid login functions, and the third blocklists all target urls on example.com. The fourth excludes targets with a hostname of www.google.com and the fifth excludes targets whose host resolves to 127.0.0.1.

Prune

The prune flag iterates through all targets, computes the fingerprints in memory, and marks subsequent matching targets as scanned. Additionally it deletes any target matching a blocklist item. The result is a database where --list-unscanned returns only scannable urls. It honors the random flag to compute fingerprints in random order.

General Options

These options are applicable regardless of module chosen:

  --source [SOURCE]     Label associated with targets
  --count COUNT         number of urls to scan, or -1 to scan all urls
  --random              retrieve urls in random order

Indexer Modules

google

  Searches google.com via scraping

  engine ENGINE       CSE id
  query QUERY         search query
  phantomjs-dir PHANTOMJS_DIR
                      phantomjs base dir containing bin/phantomjs
  domain DOMAIN       limit searches to specified domain

google_api

  Searches google.com

  key KEY             API key
  engine ENGINE       CSE id
  query QUERY         search query
  domain DOMAIN       limit searches to specified domain

pywb

  Searches a given pywb server's crawl data

  server SERVER       pywb server url
  domain DOMAIN       pull all results for given domain or subdomain
  cdx-api-suffix CDX_API_SUFFIX
                      suffix after index for index api
  index INDEX         search a specific index
  filter FILTER       query filter to apply to the search
  retries RETRIES     number of times to retry fetching results on error
  threads THREADS     number of concurrent requests to wayback.org

commoncrawl

  Searches commoncrawl.org crawl data

  domain DOMAIN       pull all results for given domain or subdomain
  index INDEX         search a specific index, e.g. CC-MAIN-2019-22 (default: latest)
  filter FILTER       query filter to apply to the search
  retries RETRIES     number of times to retry fetching results on error
  threads THREADS     number of concurrent requests to commoncrawl.org

wayback

  Searches archive.org crawl data

  domain DOMAIN       pull all results for given domain or subdomain
  filter FILTER       query filter to apply to the search
  from FROM           beginning timestamp
  to TO               end timestamp
  retries RETRIES     number of times to retry fetching results on error
  threads THREADS     number of concurrent requests to wayback.org

bing_api

  Searches bing.com

  key KEY             API key
  query QUERY         search query

stdin

  Accepts urls from stdin, one per line

Scanner Modules

General Options

  args ARGS           space-delimited list of additional arguments
  report-dir REPORT_DIR
                      directory to save report file
  report-filename REPORT_FILENAME
                      filename to save vulnerability report as
  report-append       append to report file if it exists
  report-indent REPORT_INDENT
                      indent level for vulnerability report json
  label LABEL         friendly name field to include in vulnerability report

arachni

  Scans with the arachni command-line scanner

  arachni-dir ARACHNI_DIR
                      arachni base dir containing bin/arachni and
                      bin/arachni_reporter

wapiti

  Scans with the wapiti3 command-line scanner

  wapiti-dir WAPITI_DIR
                      wapiti base dir containing bin/wapiti

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