Secator - The Pentester'S Swiss Knife
secator
is a task and workflow runner used for security assessments. It supports dozens of well-known security tools and it is designed to improve productivity for pentesters and security researchers.
Features
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Curated list of commands
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Unified input options
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Unified output schema
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CLI and library usage
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Distributed options with Celery
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Complexity from simple tasks to complex workflows
Supported tools
secator
integrates the following tools:
Name | Description | Category |
---|---|---|
httpx | Fast HTTP prober. | http |
cariddi | Fast crawler and endpoint secrets / api keys / tokens matcher. | http/crawler |
gau | Offline URL crawler (Alien Vault, The Wayback Machine, Common Crawl, URLScan). | http/crawler |
gospider | Fast web spider written in Go. | http/crawler |
katana | Next-generation crawling and spidering framework. | http/crawler |
dirsearch | Web path discovery. | http/fuzzer |
feroxbuster | Simple, fast, recursive content discovery tool written in Rust. | http/fuzzer |
ffuf | Fast web fuzzer written in Go. | http/fuzzer |
h8mail | Email OSINT and breach hunting tool. | osint |
dnsx | Fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit designed for running DNS queries. | recon/dns |
dnsxbrute | Fast and multi-purpose DNS toolkit designed for running DNS queries (bruteforce mode). | recon/dns |
subfinder | Fast subdomain finder. | recon/dns |
fping | Find alive hosts on local networks. | recon/ip |
mapcidr | Expand CIDR ranges into IPs. | recon/ip |
naabu | Fast port discovery tool. | recon/port |
maigret | Hunt for user accounts across many websites. | recon/user |
gf | A wrapper around grep to avoid typing common patterns. | tagger |
grype | A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems. | vuln/code |
dalfox | Powerful XSS scanning tool and parameter analyzer. | vuln/http |
msfconsole | CLI to access and work with the Metasploit Framework. | vuln/http |
wpscan | WordPress Security Scanner | vuln/multi |
nmap | Vulnerability scanner using NSE scripts. | vuln/multi |
nuclei | Fast and customisable vulnerability scanner based on simple YAML based DSL. | vuln/multi |
searchsploit | Exploit searcher. | exploit/search |
Feel free to request new tools to be added by opening an issue, but please check that the tool complies with our selection criterias before doing so. If it doesn't but you still want to integrate it into secator
, you can plug it in (see the dev guide).
Installation
Installing secator
Pipx
pipx install secator
Pip
pip install secator
Bash
wget -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/freelabz/secator/main/scripts/install.sh | sh
Docker
docker run -it --rm --net=host -v ~/.secator:/root/.secator freelabz/secator --help
The volume mount -v is necessary to save all secator reports to your host machine, and--net=host is recommended to grant full access to the host network. You can alias this command to run it easier: alias secator="docker run -it --rm --net=host -v ~/.secator:/root/.secator freelabz/secator"
Now you can run secator like if it was installed on baremetal: secator --help
Docker Compose
git clone https://github.com/freelabz/secator
cd secator
docker-compose up -d
docker-compose exec secator secator --help
Note: If you chose the Bash, Docker or Docker Compose installation methods, you can skip the next sections and go straight to Usage.
Installing languages
secator
uses external tools, so you might need to install languages used by those tools assuming they are not already installed on your system.
We provide utilities to install required languages if you don't manage them externally:
Go
secator install langs go
Ruby
secator install langs ruby
Installing tools
secator
does not install any of the external tools it supports by default.
We provide utilities to install or update each supported tool which should work on all systems supporting apt
:
All tools
secator install tools
Specific tools
secator install tools <TOOL_NAME>
For instance, to install `httpx`, use: secator install tools httpx
Please make sure you are using the latest available versions for each tool before you run secator or you might run into parsing / formatting issues.
Installing addons
secator
comes installed with the minimum amount of dependencies.
There are several addons available for secator
:
worker
Add support for Celery workers (see [Distributed runs with Celery](https://docs.freelabz.com/in-depth/distributed-runs-with-celery)).secator install addons worker
secator install addons google
mongodb
Add support for MongoDB driver (`-driver mongodb`).secator install addons mongodb
redis
Add support for Redis backend (Celery).secator install addons redis
dev
Add development tools like `coverage` and `flake8` required for running tests.secator install addons dev
trace
Add tracing tools like `memray` and `pyinstrument` required for tracing functions.secator install addons trace
build
Add `hatch` for building and publishing the PyPI package.secator install addons build
Install CVEs
secator
makes remote API calls to https://cve.circl.lu/ to get in-depth information about the CVEs it encounters. We provide a subcommand to download all known CVEs locally so that future lookups are made from disk instead:
secator install cves
Checking installation health
To figure out which languages or tools are installed on your system (along with their version):
secator health
Usage
secator --help
Usage examples
Run a fuzzing task (ffuf
):
secator x ffuf http://testphp.vulnweb.com/FUZZ
Run a url crawl workflow:
secator w url_crawl http://testphp.vulnweb.com
Run a host scan:
secator s host mydomain.com
and more... to list all tasks / workflows / scans that you can use:
secator x --help
secator w --help
secator s --help
Learn more
To go deeper with secator
, check out: * Our complete documentation * Our getting started tutorial video * Our Medium post * Follow us on social media: @freelabz on Twitter and @FreeLabz on YouTube