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Content filesystem scan

Subject: Content filesystem scan
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:33:27 -0500
Hi guys,

I'm about to begin a penetration test on a pretty big distributed file system 
(Terabytes) and would like to known if any of you have some advice on how to 
scan for script variable named "pass, password, passwd, key, passphrase" or 
like. A lot of scripts reside on the file system so I guess will be able to 
find some of them with open ACL'ÃÂs and sensible information like 
user/password.

Presently I'm using this command to generate a listing of all accessible file 
with a brief content description: "find /bigfs -type f -size -100000c -exec 
/pathto/file -m /pathto/magic {} \; 2> /dev/null > ~/scan_bigfs.list". From 
there I've populated a database (~460K entries) to filter out stuff like 
trusted image, bin, lib, doc, include, conf. Then, I guess manipulating 
different type of file with different handler would be the way to go.

type:ASCII = grep;
type:Unicode = strings, grep;
type:bin = strings, grep;
type:tar/gz/other = untar/gunzip,scan again.

Any comments will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Danny Fullerton
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IT Security Specialist, GCIH GHTQ
http://www.mantor.org/~northox
Mantor Organization

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