WAFW00F

WAFW00F identifies and fingerprints Web Application Firewall (WAF) products.

How does it work?

To do its magic, WAFW00F does the following:

Sends a normal HTTP request and analyses the response; this identifies a number of WAF solutions
If that is not successful, it sends a number of (potentially malicious) HTTP requests and uses simple logic to deduce which WAF it is
If that is also not successful, it analyses the responses previously returned and uses another simple algorithm to guess if a WAF or security solution is actively responding to our attacks

For further details, check out the source code on the main site, github.com/sandrogauci/wafw00f.

What does it detect?

It detects a number of WAFs. To view which WAFs it is able to detect run WAFW00F with the -l option. At the time of writing the output is as follows:

$ wafw00f -l

                                ^     ^
        _   __  _   ____ _   __  _    _   ____
    ///7/ /.' \ / __////7/ /,' \ ,' \ / __/
    | V V // o // _/ | V V // 0 // 0 // _/
    |_n_,'/_n_//_/   |_n_,' \_,' \_,'/_/
                                <
                                ...'

    WAFW00F - Web Application Firewall Detection Tool

    By Sandro Gauci && Wendel G. Henrique

Can test for these WAFs:

Anquanbao
FortiWeb
Naxsi
Juniper WebApp Secure
IBM Web Application Security
Cisco ACE XML Gateway
Better WP Security
F5 BIG-IP ASM
Citrix NetScaler
ModSecurity (OWASP CRS)
F5 BIG-IP APM
360WangZhanBao
Mission Control Application Shield
PowerCDN
Safedog
Sucuri WAF
F5 FirePass
DenyALL WAF
Trustwave ModSecurity
CloudFlare
Profense
Wallarm
Incapsula WAF
Radware AppWall
F5 BIG-IP LTM
Art of Defence HyperGuard
Aqtronix WebKnight
Teros WAF
eEye Digital Security SecureIIS
BinarySec
IBM DataPower
Microsoft ISA Server
NetContinuum
NSFocus
ChinaCache-CDN
West263CDN
InfoGuard Airlock
AdNovum nevisProxy
Barracuda Application Firewall
Comodo WAF
Imperva SecureSphere
BlockDoS
Edgecast / Verizon Digital media
Microsoft URLScan
Applicure dotDefender
USP Secure Entry Server
F5 Trafficshield

How do I use it?

First, install the tools as described here.

For help please make use of the --help option. The basic usage is to pass it a URL as an argument. Example:

$ wafw00f https://www.ibm.com/

                                 ^     ^
        _   __  _   ____ _   __  _    _   ____
       ///7/ /.' \ / __////7/ /,' \ ,' \ / __/
      | V V // o // _/ | V V // 0 // 0 // _/
      |_n_,'/_n_//_/   |_n_,' \_,' \_,'/_/
                                <
                                 ...'

    WAFW00F - Web Application Firewall Detection Tool

    By Sandro Gauci && Wendel G. Henrique

Checking https://www.ibm.com/
The site https://www.ibm.com/ is behind a Citrix NetScaler
Number of requests: 6

How do I install it?

The following should do the trick:

python setup.py install

pip install wafw00f

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