Show HN: Osint tool that finds exposed files on domains
hey guys, wanted to show one of my side projects i just made public. the idea is basically another osint tool for pentesters and bug bounty hunters. it watches certificate transparency logs and checks newly-seen domains for exposed stuff like .env files, open .git dirs, config files, db dumps and so on, and puts whatever it finds into a searchable db. you just search a domain (or part of one) and see what's exposed. it's read-only and free. one thing i've been thinking about adding is a way to register for certain keywords and get notified when something new shows up for that search. would love to hear if you have other ideas for useful features, and also ideas for how to reduce abuse of the data, since that's the part i'm least sure about. https://search.cerast-intelligence.com/
Discussion Highlights (6 comments)
cvadict
searching for .gov reveals 0 matches... doubt
sandeepkd
Its interesting and not interesting at the same time based on some of the search results Almost all of them seem like home projects being deployed with ease in mind than security. The common thread seems to be the fact that most of them are phishing website, not sure if thats a business model to target here?
technion
There's an astounding amount of .DS_Store showing up - I hadn't realised how common it apparently is for people to accidentally upload this.
phoronixrly
So is this the crawler that has been constantly hammering all my applications searching for these files from the very second I first issue a TLS cert for them? Thanks to you I've had to put fail2ban on all my public-facing web servers... How about you be a good netizen and make it so people can request to be scanned and don't proactively do it, let alone constantly keep hammering them with requests?
keepamovin
In the early days of the web you could do a search on google like path:/etc/passwd Sometimes there were even shadow passwd files with the hashes exposed on the web. Crazy days.
Avery29
Nice tool. I’d like to understand what kinds of businesses the customers using this website are in.