MANSPIDER : Spider Entire Networks For Juicy Files Sitting On SMB Shares. Search Filenames Or File Content – Regex Supported!

MANSPIDER will crawl every share on every target system. If provided creds don’t work, it will fall back to “guest”, then to a null session.

File Types Supported

  • PDF
  • DOCX
  • XLSX
  • PPTX
  • any text-based format
  • and many more!!

Installation

Install these dependencies to add additional file parsing capability:

#for images (png, jpeg)
$ sudo apt install tesseract tesseract-data-eng
#for legacy document support (.doc)
$ sudo apt install antiword

Install manspider (please be patient, this can take a while):

$ pip install pipx
$ pipx install man-spider

Example #1: Search the network for filenames that may contain creds

NOTE: matching files are automatically downloaded into $HOME/.manspider/loot! (-n to disable)

$ manspider 192.168.0.0/24 -f passw user admin account network login logon cred -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #2: Search for XLSX files containing “password”

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -c password -e xlsx -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #3: Search for interesting file extensions

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -e bat com vbs ps1 psd1 psm1 pem key rsa pub reg txt cfg conf config -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #4: Search for finance-related files

This example searches financy-sounding directories for filenames containing 5 or more consecutive numbers (e.g. 000202006.EFT)

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local –dirnames bank financ payable payment reconcil remit voucher vendor eft swift -f ‘[0-9]{5,}’ -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #5: Search for certificates

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -e pfx p12 pkcs12 pem key crt cer csr jks keystore key keys der -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Usage Tip #1

You can run multiple instances of manspider at one time. This is useful when one instance is already running, and you want to search what it’s downloaded (similar to grep -R). To do this, specify the keyword loot as the target, which will search the downloaded files in $HOME/.manspider/loot.

Usage Tip #2

Reasonable defaults help prevent unwanted scenarios like getting stuck on a single target. All of these can be overridden:

  • default spider depth: 10 (override with -m)
  • default max filesize: 10MB (override with -s)
  • default threads: 5 (override with -t)
  • shares excluded: C$IPC$ADMIN$PRINT$ (override with --exclude-sharenames)

Usage Tip #3

Manspider accepts any combination of the following as targets:

  • IPs
  • hostnames
  • subnets (CIDR format)
  • files containing any of the above
  • local folders containing files

For example, you could specify any or all of these:

  • 192.168.1.250
  • share.evilcorp.local
  • 192.168.1.0/24
  • smb_hosts.txt
  • loot (to search already-downloaded files)
  • /mnt/share (to recursively search a directory)
    • NOTE: when searching local files, you must specify a directory, not an individual file

Usage

usage: manspider [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD] [-d DOMAIN] [-m MAXDEPTH] [-H HASH] [-t THREADS] [-f REGEX [REGEX …]] [-e EXT [EXT …]] [–exclude-extensions EXT [EXT …]]
[-c REGEX [REGEX …]] [–sharenames SHARE [SHARE …]] [–exclude-sharenames [SHARE …]] [–dirnames DIR [DIR …]] [–exclude-dirnames DIR [DIR …]] [-q] [-n]
[-mfail INT] [-o] [-s SIZE] [-v]
targets [targets …]
Scan for juicy data on SMB shares. Matching files and logs are stored in $HOME/.manspider. All filters are case-insensitive.
positional arguments:
targets IPs, Hostnames, CIDR ranges, or files containing targets to spider (NOTE: local searching also supported, specify directory name or keyword “loot” to search
downloaded files)
0ptional arguments:
-h, –help show this help message and exit
-u USERNAME, –username USERNAME
username for authentication
-p PASSWORD, –password PASSWORD
password for authentication
-d DOMAIN, –domain DOMAIN
domain for authentication
-m MAXDEPTH, –maxdepth MAXDEPTH
maximum depth to spider (default: 10)
-H HASH, –hash HASH NTLM hash for authentication
-t THREADS, –threads THREADS
concurrent threads (default: 5)
-f REGEX [REGEX …], –filenames REGEX [REGEX …]
filter filenames using regex (space-separated)
-e EXT [EXT …], –extensions EXT [EXT …]
only show filenames with these extensions (space-separated, e.g. docx xlsx for only word & excel docs)
–exclude-extensions EXT [EXT …]
ignore files with these extensions
-c REGEX [REGEX …], –content REGEX [REGEX …]
search for file content using regex (multiple supported)
–sharenames SHARE [SHARE …]
only search shares with these names (multiple supported)
–exclude-sharenames [SHARE …]
don’t search shares with these names (multiple supported)
–dirnames DIR [DIR …]
only search directories containing these strings (multiple supported)
–exclude-dirnames DIR [DIR …]
don’t search directories containing these strings (multiple supported)
-q, –quiet don’t display matching file content
-n, –no-download don’t download matching files
-mfail INT, –max-failed-logons INT
limit failed logons
-o, –or-logic use OR logic instead of AND (files are downloaded if filename OR extension OR content match)
-s SIZE, –max-filesize SIZE
don’t retrieve files over this size, e.g. “500K” or “.5M” (default: 10M)
-v, –verbose show debugging messages