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Tool to scan for secret files on HTTP servers
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snallygaster

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Finds file leaks and other security problems on HTTP servers.



what?

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snallygaster is a tool that looks for files accessible on web servers that shouldn't be

public and can pose a security risk.



Typical examples include publicly accessible git repositories, backup files potentially

containing passwords or database dumps. In addition, it contains a few checks for other

security vulnerabilities.



As an introduction to these kinds of issues you may want to watch this talk:

* [Attacking with HTTP Requests](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bppr9rbmwz4)



See the [TESTS.md](TESTS.md) file for an overview of all tests and links to further

information about the issues.



install

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snallygaster is available [via pypi](https://pypi.org/project/snallygaster/):



```

pip3 install snallygaster

```



It's a simple python 3 script, so you can just download the file "snallygaster" and

execute it. Dependencies are urllib3, beautifulsoup4 and dnspython. In Debian- or

Ubuntu-based distributions you can install them via:



```

apt install python3-dnspython python3-urllib3 python3-bs4

```



distribution packages

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Some Linux and BSD systems have snallygaster packaged:



* [Gentoo](https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-analyzer/snallygaster)

* [NetBSD](https://pkgsrc.se/security/snallygaster)

* [Arch Linux (git version)](https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/snallygaster-git/)

* [openSUSE](https://software.opensuse.org/package/snallygaster)



faq

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Q: I want to contribute / send a patch / a pull request!



A: That's great, but please read the [CONTRIBUTIONS.md](CONTRIBUTIONS.md) file.



Q: What's that name?



A: [Snallygaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snallygaster) is the name of a dragon

that according to some legends was seen in Maryland and other parts of the US. There's

no particular backstory why this tool got named this way, other than that I was looking

for a fun and interesting name.



I thought a name of some mythical creature would be nice, but most of those had the

problem that I would have had name collisions with other software. Checking the list of

dragons on Wikipedia I learned about the Snallygaster. The name sounded funny, the idea

that there are dragon legends in the US interesting and I found no other piece of

software with that name.



credit and thanks

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* Thanks to Tim Philipp Schäfers and Sebastian Neef from the [Internetwache](

  https://www.internetwache.org/) for plenty of ideas about things to look for.

* Thanks to [Craig Young](https://secur3.us/) for many discussions during the

  development of this script.

* Thanks to [Sebastian Pipping](https://blog.hartwork.org/) for some help with Python

  programming during the development.

* Thanks to [Benjamin Balder Bach](https://overtag.dk/) for teaching me lots of things

  about Python packaging.

* Thanks to the organizers of Bornhack, Driving IT, SEC-T and the Rights and Freedom

  track at 34C3 for letting me present this work.



author

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snallygaster is developed and maintained by [Hanno Böck](https://hboeck.de/).