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🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is! 🧙‍♀️
https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat

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🐸 Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is! 🧙‍♀️

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The easiest way to identify anything


pip3 install pywhat && pywhat --help






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# 🤔 `What` is this?



![](images/main_demo.gif)



Imagine this: You come across some mysterious text 🧙‍♂️ `0x52908400098527886E0F7030069857D2E4169EE7` or `dQw4w9WgXcQ` and you wonder what it is. What do you do?



Well, with `what` all you have to do is ask `what "0x52908400098527886E0F7030069857D2E4169EE7"` and `what` will tell you!



`what`'s job is to **identify _what_ something is.** Whether it be a file or text! Or even the hex of a file! What about text _within_ files? We have that too! `what` is recursive, it will identify **everything** in text and more!



# Installation



## 🔨 Using pip



```$ pip3 install pywhat```



or



```shell

# installs optional dependencies that may improve the speed

$ pip3 install pywhat[optimize] 

```



## 🔨 On Mac?



```$ brew install pywhat```



Or for our MacPorts fans:



```$ sudo port install pywhat```



# ⚙ Use Cases



## 🦠 Wannacry



![](images/wannacry_demo.png)



You come across a new piece of malware called WantToCry. You think back to Wannacry and remember it was stopped because a researcher found a kill-switch in the code.



When a domain, hardcoded into Wannacry, was registered the virus would stop.



You use `What` to identify all the domains in the malware, and use a domain registrar API to register all the domains.



## 🦈 Faster Analysis of Pcap files



![](images/pcap_demo.gif)



Say you have a `.pcap` file from a network attack. `What` can identify this and quickly find you:



- All URLs

- Emails

- Phone numbers

- Credit card numbers

- Cryptocurrency addresses

- Social Security Numbers

- and much more.



With `what`, you can identify the important things in the pcap in seconds, not minutes.



## 🐞 Bug Bounties



You can use PyWhat to scan for things that'll make you money via bug bounties like:

* API Keys

* Webhooks

* Credentials

* and more



Run PyWhat with:



```

pywhat --include "Bug Bounty" TEXT

```



To do this.



Here are some examples 👇



### 🐙 GitHub Repository API Key Leaks



1. Download all GitHub repositories of an organisation

2. Search for anything that you can submit as a bounty, like API keys



```shell

# Download all repositories

GHUSER=CHANGEME; curl "https://api.github.com/users/$GHUSER/repos?per_page=1000" | grep -o 'git@[^"]*' | xargs -L1 git clone



# Will print when it finds things.

# Loops over all files in current directory.

find . -type f -execdir pywhat --include 'Bug Bounty' {} \;

```



### 🕷 Scan all web pages for bounties



```shell

# Recursively download all web pages of a site

wget -r -np -k https://skerritt.blog



# Will print when it finds things.

# Loops over all files in current directory.

find . -type f -execdir pywhat --include 'Bug Bounty' {} \;

```



**PS**: We support more filters than just bug bounties! Run `pywhat --tags`



## 🌌 Other Features



Anytime you have a file and you want to find structured data in it that's useful, `What` is for you.



Or if you come across some piece of text and you don't know what it is, `What` will tell you.



### 📁 File & Directory Handling



**File Opening** You can pass in a file path by `what 'this/is/a/file/path'`. `What` is smart enough to figure out it's a file!



What about a whole **directory**? `What` can handle that too! It will **recursively** search for files and output everything you need!



### 🔍 Filtering your output



Sometimes, you only care about seeing things which are related to AWS. Or bug bounties, or cryptocurrencies!



You can filter output by using `what --rarity 0.2:0.8 --include Identifiers,URL https://skerritt.blog`. Use `what --help` to get more information.



To see all filters, run `pywhat --tags`! You can also combine them, for example to see all cryptocurrency wallets minus Ripple you can do:



```console

pywhat --include "Cryptocurrency Wallet" --exclude "Ripple Wallet" 1KFHE7w8BhaENAswwryaoccDb6qcT6DbYY

```



### 👽 Sorting, Exporting, and more!



**Sorting** You can sort the output by using `what -k rarity --reverse TEXT`. Use `what --help` to get more information.



**Exporting** You can export to json using `what --json` and results can be sent directly to a file using `what --json > file.json`.



**Boundaryless mode** `What` has a special mode to match identifiable information within strings. By default, it is enabled in CLI but disabled in API. Use `what --help` or refer to [API Documentation](https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat/wiki/API) for more information.



# 🍕 API



PyWhat has an API! Click here [https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat/wiki/API](https://github.com/bee-san/pyWhat/wiki/API) to read about it.



# 👾 Contributing



`what` not only thrives on contributors, but can't exist without them! If you want to add a new regex to check for things, you can read our documentation [here](https://github.com/bee-san/what/wiki/Adding-your-own-Regex)



We ask contributors to join the Discord for quicker discussions, but it's not needed:

Discord



# 🙏 Thanks



We would like to thank [Dora](https://github.com/sdushantha/dora) for their work on a bug bounty specific regex database which we have used.