Scavenger – Crawler searching for credential leaks on paste sites

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Scavenger – OSINT Bot – REWORKED


Bot In Action

Intro

Just the code of my OSINT bot searching for sensitive data leaks on paste sites.

Search terms:

  • credentials
  • private RSA keys
  • WordPress configuration files
  • MySQL connect strings
  • onion links
  • SQL dumps
  • API keys
  • complete emails

Search terms can be customized. You can learn more about it in the configuration section.

Articles About Scavenger

 https://jakecreps.com/2019/05/08/osint-collection-tools-for-pastebin/
 https://jakecreps.com/2019/01/08/scavenger/
 https://youtu.be/VCwiZ2dh17Q?t=51 (the bot is mentioned here) 

Main Features

For pastebin.com the bot has two modes:

  • looking for sensitive data in the archive via scraping
  • looking for sensitive data by tracking users who publish leaks

Additional features:

  • customizable search terms
  • scan folders with text files for sensitive information

Configuration

  1. Delete the README.md files in every subfolder as they are only placeholders
  2. The bot searches for email:password combinations and other kinds sensitive data by default. If you want to add more search terms edit the configs/searchterms.txt file or use the -3 switch in the control script Default configs/searchterms.txt configuration:
mysqli_connect(
 BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY
 The name of the database for WordPress
 apiKey:
 Return-Path:
 insert into
 INSERT INTO
 .onion

If you want to add other search terms just add them to file line by line. You know a useful search terms which is missing here? Tell me! 🙂 3. For the user tracking module of pastebin.com you need to add the target users line by line to the configs/users.txt file.

Usage

Program help:

$ python3 scavenger.py -h
 
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  _____  _/ \__  \  \/ // _ \ /    \  / _/ _ _  _ \  /        \  __ / _ \   /\  /|   |  \/ //  >  /|  | \/
 /  /__  >_  /_/  ___  >|  /___  / ___  >|         \/     \/     \/          \/     \//_/      \/       Reworked
 usage: scavenger.py [-h] [-0] [-1] [-2] [-3] [-4]
 control script
 optional arguments:
   -h, --help           show this help message and exit
   -0, --pbincom        Activate pastebin.com archive scraping module
   -1, --pbincomTrack   Activate pastebin.com user tracking module
   -2, --sensitivedata  Search a specific folder for sensitive data. This might
                        be useful if you want to analyze some pastes which
                        were not collected by the bot.
   -3, --editsearch     Edit search terms file for additional search terms
                        (email:password combinations will always be searched)
   -4, --editusers      Edit user file of the pastebin.com user track module
 example usage: python3 scavenger.py -0 -1

Crawled pastes are stored at different locations depending on their status.

  • Paste crawled but nothing was detected -> data/raw_pastes
  • Paste crawled and an email:password combination was detected -> data/raw_pastes and data/files_with_passwords
  • Paste crawled and other sensitive data was detected -> data/raw_pastes and data/otherSensitivePastes

Pastes get stored in data/raw_pastes until they reach a limit of 48000 files. Once there are more then 48000 pastes they get ziped and moved to the archive folder.


Start the pastebin.com archive scraping module

$ python3 scavenger.py -0

Start pastebin.com user tracking module

$ python3 scavenger.py -1

When starting one of these modules, a tmux session with the running module is created in the background.

List tmux sessions

$ tmux ls
pastebincomArchive: 1 windows (created Sun Apr 14 06:33:32 2021) [204x58]
pastebincomTrack: 1 windows (created Sun Apr 14 06:33:32 2021) [204x58]

Interact with a tmux session example

$ tmux a -t pastebincomArchive
$ tmux a -t pastebincomTrack

To detach from a session hit STRG+b d.


If you want to start a module without using the control software you can do this by calling them directly.

Pastebin.com archive scraper

$ python3 pbincomArchiveScrape.py

Pastebin.com user tracker

$ python3 pbincomTrackUser.py

Search specific folder for sensitive data:

$ python3 findSensitiveData.py TARGET_FOLDER

To Do

If you miss anything and want me to add features or make changes, just let me know via Twitter or GitHub issue 🙂