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instarecon

Automated digital reconnaissance

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InstaRecon

Automated basic digital reconnaissance. Great for getting an initial footprint of your targets and discovering additional subdomains. InstaRecon will do:

  • DNS lookups (A, PTR, MX, NS)
  • DNS lookups recursively on all hosts discovered
  • Whois (on domain and IP) lookups
  • Google dorks looking for subdomains and URLs
  • Shodan lookups
  • Reverse DNS lookups on entire CIDRs (only if target is a network)

...all printed nicely on your console or csv file.

InstaRecon will never scan a target directly. Information is retrieved from DNS/Whois servers, Google, and Shodan.

Installing

To install simply do:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Dependencies should be automatically installed. Then go:

instarecon.py <target>

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04 and Kali-Rolling (2016.1).

TODO

  • Shodan robots.txt
  • Improve output files - use xlsx instead of csv, as width can be controlled.
  • Improve Google crawler performance, implement random headers and user-agents.
  • Scan threading.
  • LinkedIn page scraping. Possibly other sources?
  • Pip installable? (https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing.html).
  • Allow proxy settings to be set.

Example

$ instarecon.py -v -s <shodan_key> -o ~/github.com.csv github.com 
# InstaRecon v0.1.2 - by Luis Teixeira (teix.co)
# Scanning 1/1 hosts
# Shodan key provided - <shodan_key>

# ____________________ Scanning github.com ____________________ #

# DNS lookups
[*] Domain: github.com

[*] IPs & reverse DNS: 
192.30.252.129 - github.com

[*] NS records:
ns4.p16.dynect.net
    204.13.251.16 - ns4.p16.dynect.net
ns3.p16.dynect.net
    208.78.71.16 - ns3.p16.dynect.net
ns2.p16.dynect.net
    204.13.250.16 - ns2.p16.dynect.net
ns1.p16.dynect.net
    208.78.70.16 - ns1.p16.dynect.net

[*] MX records:
ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com
    74.125.203.26 - th-in-f26.1e100.net
ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com
    64.233.168.26 - oj-in-f26.1e100.net
ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com
    173.194.219.27 - ya-in-f27.1e100.net
ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com
    173.194.219.27 - ya-in-f27.1e100.net
ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.com
    74.125.25.27 - pa-in-f27.1e100.net

# Whois lookups

[*] Whois domain:
Domain Name: github.com
Registry Domain ID: 1264983250_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar URL: http://www.markmonitor.com
Updated Date: 2015-01-08T04:00:18-0800
Creation Date: 2007-10-09T11:20:50-0700
Registrar Registration Expiration Date: 2020-10-09T11:20:50-0700
Registrar: MarkMonitor, Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 292
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [email protected]
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.2083895740
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited)
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited)
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited (https://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited)
Registry Registrant ID: 
Registrant Name: GitHub Hostmaster
Registrant Organization: GitHub, Inc.
Registrant Street: 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, 
Registrant City: San Francisco
Registrant State/Province: CA
Registrant Postal Code: 94107
Registrant Country: US
Registrant Phone: +1.4157354488
Registrant Phone Ext: 
Registrant Fax: 
Registrant Fax Ext: 
Registrant Email: [email protected]
Registry Admin ID: 
Admin Name: GitHub Hostmaster
Admin Organization: GitHub, Inc.
Admin Street: 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, 
Admin City: San Francisco
Admin State/Province: CA
Admin Postal Code: 94107
Admin Country: US
Admin Phone: +1.4157354488
Admin Phone Ext: 
Admin Fax: 
Admin Fax Ext: 
Admin Email: [email protected]
Registry Tech ID: 
Tech Name: GitHub Hostmaster
Tech Organization: GitHub, Inc.
Tech Street: 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, 
Tech City: San Francisco
Tech State/Province: CA
Tech Postal Code: 94107
Tech Country: US
Tech Phone: +1.4157354488
Tech Phone Ext: 
Tech Fax: 
Tech Fax Ext: 
Tech Email: [email protected]
Name Server: ns2.p16.dynect.net
Name Server: ns1.p16.dynect.net
Name Server: ns4.p16.dynect.net
Name Server: ns3.p16.dynect.net
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN WHOIS Data Problem Reporting System: http://wdprs.internic.net/
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2015-06-17T19:49:18-0700

[*] Whois IP for 192.30.252.129:
asn: 36459
asn_cidr: 192.30.252.0/24
asn_country_code: US
asn_date: 2012-11-15
asn_registry: arin
net 0:
    cidr: 192.30.252.0/22
    range: 192.30.252.0 - 192.30.255.255
    name: GITHUB-NET4-1
    description: GitHub, Inc.
    handle: NET-192-30-252-0-1
    
    address: 88 Colin P Kelly Jr Street
    city: San Francisco
    state: CA
    postal_code: 94107
    country: US
    
    abuse_emails: [email protected]
    tech_emails: [email protected]
    
    created: 2012-11-15 00:00:00
    updated: 2013-01-05 00:00:00

# Querying Shodan for open ports
[*] Shodan:
IP: 192.30.252.129
Organization: GitHub
ISP: GitHub

Port: 80
Banner: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
    Content-length: 0
    Location: https://192.30.252.129/
    Connection: close
Port: 22
Banner: SSH-2.0-libssh-0.6.0
    Key type: ssh-rsa
    Key: AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAq2A7hRGmdnm9tUDbO9IDSwBK6TbQa+PXYPCPy6rbTrTtw7PH
    kccKrpp0yVhp5HdEIcKr6pLlVDBfOLX9QUsyCOV0wzfjIJNlGEYsdlLJizHhbn2mUjvSAHQqZETY
    P81eFzLQNnPHt4EVVUh7VfDESU84KezmD5QlWpXLmvU31/yMf+Se8xhHTvKSCZIFImWwoG6mbUoW
    f9nzpIoaSjB+weqqUUmpaaasXVal72J+UX2B+2RPW3RcT0eOzQgqlJL3RKrTJvdsjE3JEAvGq3lG
    HSZXy28G3skua2SmVi/w4yCE6gbODqnTWlg7+wC604ydGXA8VJiS5ap43JXiUFFAaQ==
    Fingerprint: 16:27:ac:a5:76:28:2d:36:63:1b:56:4d:eb:df:a6:48
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