Tachyon : Fast Http Dead File Finder

Tachyon is a fast web application security reconnaissance tool. It is specifically meant to crawl web application and look for left over or non-indexed files with the addition of reporting pages or scripts leaking internal data.

User Requirements

• Linux
• Python 3.5.2

User Installation

Install

$ mkdir tachyon
$ python3 -m venv tachyon/
$ cd tachyon
$ source bin/activate
$ pip install tachyon3
$ tachyon -h

Upgrading

$ cd tachyon
$ source bin/activate
$ pip install –ignore-installed –upgrade tachyon3

Usage

$ cd tachyon
$ source bin/activate
$ tachyon -h

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Developers Installation

$ git clone https://github.com/delvelabs/tachyon.git
$ mkdir tachyon
$ python3 -m venv tachyon/
$ source tachyon/bin/activate
$ cd tachyon
$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Getting started

Note: if you have the source code version, replace tachyon with python3 -m tachyon in the examples below.

$ cd tachyon
$ source bin/activate

To run a discovery with the default settings:

tachyon http://example.com/

To run a discovery over a proxy:

tachyon -p http://127.0.0.1:8080 http://example.com/

To search for files only:

tachyon -f http://example.com/

To search for directories only:

tachyon -s http://example.com/

To output results to JSON format:

tachyon -j http://example.com/

Command Line Options

Usage: main.py [OPTIONS] TARGET_HOST
Options:
-a, –allow-download
-c, –cookie-file TEXT
-l, –depth-limit INTEGER
-s, –directories-only
-f, –files-only
-j, –json-output
-m, –max-retry-count INTEGER
-z, –plugins-only
-x, –plugin-settings TEXT
-p, –proxy TEXT
-r, –recursive
-u, –user-agent TEXT
-v, –vhost TEXT
-C, –confirmation-factor INTEGER
–har-output-dir TEXT
-h, –help Show this message and exit.

Format for the cookies file

cookie0=value0;
cookie1=value1;
cookie2=value2;

Plugins

Existing plugins:

• HostProcessor: This plugin process the hostname to generate host and filenames relatives to it.
• PathGenerator: Generate simple paths with letters and digits (ex: /0).
• Robots: Add the paths in robots.txt to the paths database.
• SitemapXML: Add paths and files found in the site map to the database.
• Svn: Fetch /.svn/entries and parse for target paths.

Plugins settings

Settings can be pass to the plugins via the -x option. Each option is a key/value pair, with a colon joining the key and its value. Use a new -x for each setting.

tachyon -x setting0:value0 -x setting1:value1 -x setting2:value2 http://example.com/