Pillager is designed to provide a simple means of leveraging Go's strong concurrency model to recursively search directories for sensitive information in files. Pillager does this by standing on the shoulders of a few giants. Once pillager finds files that match the specified pattern, the file is scanned using a series of concurrent workers that each take a line of the file from the job queue and hunt for sensitive pattern matches. The available pattern filters can be defined in a rules.toml file or you can use the default ruleset.

If you have Go setup on your system, you can install Pillager with go get

go get github.com/brittonhayes/pillager

scoop bucket add pillager https://github.com/brittonhayes/pillager-scoop.git
scoop install pillager

brew tap brittonhayes/homebrew-pillager
brew install pillager

If you're looking for a binary, check the latest releases for the executable that matches your system

To see all the commands available with pillager

# To see instructions for the entire application
pillager

# From any subcommand
pillager [cmd] --help

Pillager provides full support for Gitleaks rules. This can either be passed in with a rules.toml file, or you can use the default ruleset by leaving the rules flag blank.

# rules.toml
title = "pillager rules"

[[rules]]
description = "AWS Access Key"
regex = '''(A3T[A-Z0-9]|AKIA|AGPA|AIDA|AROA|AIPA|ANPA|ANVA|ASIA)[A-Z0-9]{16}'''
tags = ["key", "AWS"]
[[rules.entropies]]
    Min = "3.5"
    Max = "4.5"
    Group = "1"

[[rules]]
description = "Email Address"
regex = '''(?i)([A-Za-z0-9!#$%&'*+\/=?^_{|.}~-]+@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?)'''
tags = ["email", "User Info"]

Pillager allows you to use powerful go text/template to customize the output format. Here are a few template examples.

{{/*basic.tmpl*/}}  {{ range .Leaks}}      Leak: {{.Line}}      Line: {{.LineNumber}}      File: {{ .File }}  {{end}}  

{{/*markdown.tmpl*/}}  # Results  {{ range .Leaks}}      ## {{ .File }}      - Location: {{.LineNumber}}  {{end}}  

GoDoc documentation is available on pkg.go.dev for pillager but it also available for all packages in the ./pkg directory. Just open the folder of any package, and you'll see the GoDocs rendered in beautiful Github-flavored markdown thanks to the awesome gomarkdoc tool.

What is Cobra?

Cobra is a library providing a simple interface to create powerful modern CLI interfaces similar to git & go tools. Cobra is also an application that will generate your application scaffolding to rapidly develop a Cobra-based application.

If you've seen a CLI written in Go before, there's a pretty high chance it was built with Cobra. I can't recommend this library enough. It empowers developers to make consistent, dynamic, and self-documenting command line tools with ease. Some examples include kubectl, hugo, and Github's gh CLI.

What is Gitleaks?

Gitleaks is a SAST tool for detecting hardcoded secrets like passwords, api keys, and tokens in git repos.

Gitleaks is an amazing tool for secret leak prevention. If you haven't implemented Gitleaks as a pre-commit checker, it's worth your time to check it out.

Why is Gitleaks relevant to Pillager?

Pillager implements the powerful rules functionality of Gitleaks while taking a more offensive approach to working with the secrets found. While I have provided a baseline set of default rules, Pillager becomes much more powerful if you allow users to create rules for their own use-cases.

This goes without saying but I'm going to say it anyways: I am not responsible for any repercussions caused by your use of pillager. This tool is intended for defensive, Blue Team use.