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For more information about WhatWeb visit: Homepage: http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb Wiki: https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb/wiki/ If you have any questions, comments or concerns regarding WhatWeb, please consult the documentation prior to contacting one of the developers. Your feedback is always welcome. Contents ======================================================================== 1. About WhatWeb 2. Example Usage 3. Usage 4. Logging & Output 5. Plugins 6. Aggression 7. Performance & Stability 8. Optional Dependencies 9. Release History 10. Credits 11. Updates & Additional Information ======================================================================== 1. About WhatWeb ================================================================================ WhatWeb identifies websites. Its goal is to answer the question, "What is that Website?". WhatWeb recognises web technologies including content management systems (CMS), blogging platforms, statistic/analytics packages, JavaScript libraries, web servers, and embedded devices. WhatWeb has over 1000 plugins, each to recognise something different. WhatWeb also identifies version numbers, email addresses, account IDs, web framework modules, SQL errors, and more. WhatWeb can be stealthy and fast, or thorough but slow. WhatWeb supports an aggression level to control the trade off between speed and reliability. When you visit a website in your browser, the transaction includes many hints of what web technologies are powering that website. Sometimes a single webpage visit contains enough information to identify a website but when it does not, WhatWeb can interrogate the website further. The default level of aggression, called 'passive', is the fastest and requires only one HTTP request of a website. This is suitable for scanning public websites. More aggressive modes were developed for in penetration tests. Most WhatWeb plugins are thorough and recognise a range of cues from subtle to obvious. For example, most WordPress websites can be identified by the meta HTML tag, e.g. '<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 2.6.5">', but a minority of WordPress websites remove this identifying tag but this does not thwart WhatWeb. The WordPress WhatWeb plugin has over 15 tests, which include checking the favicon, default installation files, login pages, and checking for "/wp-content/" within relative links. Features: * Over 1000 plugins * Control the trade off between speed/stealth and reliability * Plugins include example URLs * Performance tuning. Control how many websites to scan concurrently. * Multiple log formats: Brief (greppable), Verbose (human readable), XML, JSON, MagicTree, RubyObject, MongoDB, SQL. * Proxy support including TOR * Custom HTTP headers * Basic HTTP authentication * Control over webpage redirection * Nmap-style IP ranges * Fuzzy matching * Result certainty awareness * Custom plugins defined on the command line 2. Example Usage ================================================================================ Using WhatWeb on a couple of websites (standard WhatWeb output is in colour): $ ./whatweb slashdot.org reddit.com http://reddit.com [302] HTTPServer[AkamaiGHost], RedirectLocation[http://www.reddit.com/], Via-Proxy[1.1 bc1], IP[173.223.232.64], Akamai-Global-Host, Country[UNITED STATES][US] http://slashdot.org [200] Script, HTTPServer[Unix][Apache/1.3.42 (Unix) mod_perl/1.31], Google-Analytics[GA][32013], Via-Proxy[1.1 bc5], UncommonHeaders[x-fry,x-varnish,x-xrds-location,slash_log_data], Apache[1.3.42][mod_perl/1.31], HTML5, IP[216.34.181.45], OpenGraphProtocol[100000696822412], X-Powered-By[Slash 2.005001], Title[Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters], Email[canadaboy@nOspam.gmail.com,jbort@nww.com], Country[UNITED STATES][US] http://www.reddit.com/ [200] Frame, PasswordField[passwd,passwd2], Script, HTTPServer['; DROP TABLE servertypes; --], IP[203.97.86.202], JQuery, Cookies[reddit_first], Title[reddit: the voice of the internet -- news before it happens], Country[NEW ZEALAND][NZ] 3. 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Use /dev/stdin to pipe HTML directly --input-file=FILE, -i Identify URLs found in FILE, eg. -i /dev/stdin --url-prefix Add a prefix to target URLs --url-suffix Add a suffix to target URLs --url-pattern Insert the targets into a URL. Requires --input-file, eg. www.example.com/%insert%/robots.txt --example-urls, -e Add example URLs for each selected plugin to the target list. By default will add example URLs for all plugins. AGGRESSION LEVELS: --aggression, -a=LEVEL The aggression level controls the trade-off between speed/stealth and reliability. Default: 1 Aggression levels are: 1 (Passive) Make one HTTP request per target. Except for redirects. 2 (Polite) Reserved for future use 3 (Aggressive) Triggers aggressive plugin functions only when a plugin matches passively. 4 (Heavy) Trigger aggressive functions for all plugins. Guess a lot of URLs like Nikto. HTTP OPTIONS: --user-agent, -U=AGENT Identify as AGENT instead of WhatWeb/0.4.8. --user, -u=<user:password> HTTP basic authentication --header, -H Add an HTTP header. eg "Foo:Bar". Specifying a default header will replace it. Specifying an empty value, eg. "User-Agent:" will remove the header. --follow-redirect=WHEN Control when to follow redirects. WHEN may be `never', `http-only', `meta-only', `same-site', `same-domain' or `always'. Default: always --max-redirects=NUM Maximum number of contiguous redirects. Default: 10 PROXY: --proxy <hostname[:port]> Set proxy hostname and port Default: 8080 --proxy-user <username:password> Set proxy user and password PLUGINS: --plugins, -p Comma delimited set of selected plugins. Default is all. Each element can be a directory, file or plugin name and can optionally have a modifier, eg. + or - Examples: +/tmp/moo.rb,+/tmp/foo.rb title,md5,+./plugins-disabled/ ./plugins-disabled,-md5 -p + is a shortcut for -p +plugins-disabled --list-plugins, -l List the plugins --info-plugins, -I Display information for all plugins. Optionally search with keywords in a comma delimited list. --grep, -g Search for a string. Reports in a plugin called Grep --custom-plugin Define a custom plugin called Custom-Plugin, Examples: ":text=>'powered by abc'" ":regexp=>/powered[ ]?by ab[0-9]/" ":ghdb=>'intitle:abc \"powered by abc\"'" ":md5=>'8666257030b94d3bdb46e05945f60b42'" "{:text=>'powered by abc'},{:regexp=>/abc [ ]?1/i}" --dorks List google dorks for the selected plugin LOGGING & OUTPUT: --verbose, -v Increase verbosity, use twice for plugin development. --colour,--color=WHEN control whether colour is used. WHEN may be `never', `always', or `auto' --quiet, -q Do not display brief logging to STDOUT --log-brief=FILE Log brief, one-line output --log-verbose=FILE Log verbose output --log-xml=FILE Log XML format --log-json=FILE Log JSON format --log-sql=FILE Log SQL INSERT statements --log-sql-create=FILE Create SQL database tables --log-json-verbose=FILE Log JSON Verbose format --log-magictree=FILE Log MagicTree XML format --log-object=FILE Log Ruby object inspection format --log-mongo-database Name of the MongoDB database --log-mongo-collection Name of the MongoDB collection. Default: whatweb --log-mongo-host MongoDB hostname or IP address. Default: 0.0.0.0 --log-mongo-username MongoDB username. Default: nil --log-mongo-password MongoDB password. Default: nil --log-errors=FILE Log errors PERFORMANCE & STABILITY: --max-threads, -t Number of simultaneous threads. Default: 25. --open-timeout Time in seconds. Default: 15 --read-timeout Time in seconds. Default: 30 --wait=SECONDS Wait SECONDS between connections This is useful when using a single thread. HELP & MISCELLANEOUS: --help, -h This help --debug Raise errors in plugins --version Display version information. (WhatWeb 0.4.8) EXAMPLE USAGE: whatweb example.com whatweb -v example.com whatweb -a 3 example.com whatweb 192.168.1.0/24 4. Logging & Output ================================================================================ The following types of logging are supported: --log-brief=FILE Brief, one-line, greppable format --log-verbose=FILE Verbose --log-xml=FILE XML format. XSL stylesheet is provided --log-json=FILE JSON format --log-sql=FILE Log SQL INSERT statements --log-sql-create=FILE Create SQL database tables --log-json-verbose=FILE JSON verbose format --log-magictree=FILE MagicTree XML format --log-object=FILE Ruby object inspection format --log-mongo-database Name of the MongoDB database --log-mongo-collection Name of the MongoDB collection. Default: whatweb --log-mongo-host MongoDB hostname or IP address. Default: 0.0.0.0 --log-mongo-username MongoDB username. Default: nil --log-mongo-password MongoDB password. Default: nil --log-errors=FILE Log errors. This is usually printed to the screen in red. You can output to multiple logs simultaneously by specifying multiple command line logging options. 5. Plugins ================================================================================ Matches are made with: * Text strings (case sensitive) * Regular expressions * Google Hack Database queries (limited set of keywords) * MD5 hashes * URL recognition * HTML tag patterns * Custom ruby code for passive and aggressive operations To list the plugins supported: $ ./whatweb -l WhatWeb Plugin List Plugin Name Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1024-CMS 1024 is one of a few CMS's leading the way with the i 360-Web-Manager 360-Web-Manager - homepage: http://www.360webmanager. 3COM-NBX 3COM NBX phone system. The NBX NetSet utility is a we ... (truncated - there are a lot) To view more detail about a plugin or search plugins for a keyword: $ ./whatweb -I phpBB WhatWeb Plugin Information Searching for phpBB -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Plugin Name Details phpBB Author: Andrew Horton Version: 0.3 Examples: 19 Matches: 7 Dorks: 1 Passive function: Yes Aggressive function: Yes Version detection: Yes Description: phpBB is a free forum - Homepage: http://phpbb.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 plugins found All plugins are loaded by default. Plugins can be selected by directories, files or plugin names as a comma delimited list with the -p or --plugin command line option. Each list item may have a modifier: + adds to the full set, - removes from the full set and no modifier overrides the defaults. Examples : --plugins +plugins-disabled,-foobar --plugins +/tmp/moo.rb --plugins foobar (only select foobar) -p title,md5,+./plugins-disabled/ -p ./plugins-disabled,-md5 The --dorks <plugin name> command line option returns google dorks for the selected plugin. For example, --dorks wordpress returns "is proudly powered by WordPress" The --grep, -g command line option searches the target page for the selected string and returns a match in a plugin called Grep if it is found. 6. Aggression ================================================================================ WhatWeb features several levels of aggression. By default the aggression level is set to 1 (passive) which sends a single HTTP GET request. --aggression, -a 1 (Passive) Make one HTTP request per target. Except for redirects. 2 (Polite) Reserved for future use 3 (Aggressive) Triggers aggressive plugin functions only when a plugin matches passively. 4 (Heavy) Trigger aggressive functions for all plugins. Guess a lot of URLs like Nikto. If aggression is enabled the aggressive plugins will guess more URLs and perform actions that are potentially unsuitable without permission. With the passive matches we know that smartor.is-root.com/forum/ is running phpBB version 2: $ ./whatweb smartor.is-root.com/forum/ http://smartor.is-root.com/forum/ [200] PasswordField[password], HTTPServer[Apache/2.2.15], PoweredBy[phpBB], Apache[2.2.15], IP[88.198.177.36], phpBB[2], PHP[5.2.13], X-Powered-By[PHP/5.2.13], Cookies[phpbb2mysql_data,phpbb2mysql_sid], Title[Smartors Mods Forums - Reloaded], Country[GERMANY][DE] With the aggressive matches in the phpBB plugin we know that the same website is running phpBB version 2.0.20 or higher: $ ./whatweb -p plugins/phpbb.rb -a 3 smartor.is-root.com/forum/ http://smartor.is-root.com/forum/ [200] phpBB[2,>2.0.20] Note the use of the -p argument to select only the phpBB plugin. It is advisable, but not mandatory, to select a specific plugin when attempting to fingerprint software versions in aggressive mode. This approach is far more stealthy as it will limit the number of requests. WhatWeb has no caching so if you use aggressive plugins on redirecting URLs you will fetch the same files multiple times. 7. Performance & Stability ================================================================================ WhatWeb features several options to increase performance and stability. --max-threads, -t Number of simultaneous threads. Default: 25. --open-timeout Time in seconds. Default: 15 --read-timeout Time in seconds. Default: 30 --wait=SECONDS Wait SECONDS between connections This is useful when using a single thread. The --wait and --max-threads commands can be used to assist in IDS evasion. Furthermore, changing the user-agent using the -U or --user-agent command line option will avoid the Snort IDS rule for WhatWeb. If you are scanning ranges of IP addresses, it is much more efficient to use a port scanner like nmap to discover which have port 80 open before scanning with WhatWeb. Character set detection, with the Charset plugin, required by JSON and MongoDB logging uses more CPU than otherwise. 8. Optional Dependencies ================================================================================ To enable JSON logging install the json gem. gem install json To enable MongoDB logging install the mongo gem. gem install mongo To enable character set detection and MongoDB logging install the rchardet gem. gem install rchardet 9. Release History ================================================================================ Version 0.3 Released at Kiwicon III (kiwicon.org), November 2nd, 2009 Version 0.4 Released March 14th, 2010 Version 0.4.1 Released April 28th, 2010 Version 0.4.2 Released April 30th, 2010 Version 0.4.3 Released May 24th, 2010 Version 0.4.4 Released June 29th, 2010 Version 0.4.5 Released August 17th, 2010 Version 0.4.6 Released March 25th, 2011 Version 0.4.7 Released April 5th, 2011 Version 0.4.8-dev Unreleased 10. Credits ================================================================================ Written by urbanadventurer aka Andrew Horton from Security-Assessment.com Homepage: http://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatweb License: GPLv2 DEVELOPERS Andrew Horton Brendan Coles CONTRIBUTORS Thank you to the following people who have contributed to WhatWeb Emilio Casbas Louis Nyffenegger Patrik Wallström Caleb Anderson Tonmoy Saikia Aung Khant Erik Inge Bolsø nk@dsigned.gr Michal Ambroz for writing the Makefile and Man pages Gremwell for improving the MagicTree logging 11. Updates & Additional Information ================================================================================ The WhatWeb development build features regular updates. * WhatWeb-dev: https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb/ * WhatWeb-dev-unstable: https://github.com/bcoles/WhatWeb/ Browse the wiki for more documentation and advanced usage techniques. * Wiki: https://github.com/urbanadventurer/WhatWeb/wiki/