Python code to query the Censys public scan database. This script is made around library censys-python (https://github.com/Censys/censys-python) and is inteded to make censys queries quick & easy from command-line.
- Requirements
- Usage
- Examples
- Generic query IP or host (look for anything matching the string in Censys indexed data)
- Count how much web servers have 'SAP' in their
Serverheader - Get geo reparition of server with 'ABAP' in their
Serverheader - Filter hosts by their HTML title
- Retrieve the hosts that have SSL certificate with organization 'Whatsapp'
- Highlight which keys are matching string for a specific search query
- Printing raw JSON record from database for a specific request
- Listing example of fields we only want to dump in the records
- Export to disk sites frontpage containing "Hacked by" in their title
- Use tags provided by censys scanner to look at servers that need to be secured
- But what the heck, you want to hack the planet?!
You need to create an account on https://censys.io and get your API key and secret at https://censys.io/account
Important note: your queries will be throttled. What is allowed is 0.2 tokens/second (60.0 per 5 minute bucket).
$ sudo pip install -r requirements.txt
$ censys_io.py --help
usage: censys_io.py [-h] [-m MATCH] [-f FILTER] [--count] [-r REPORT]
[-B REPORT_BUCKET] [-a ASN] [-c COUNTRY] [-o CERT_ORG]
[-i CERT_ISSUER] [-s CERT_HOST] [-S HTTP_SERVER]
[-t HTML_TITLE] [-b HTML_BODY] [-T TAGS] [--api_id API_ID]
[--api_secret API_SECRET] [-d] [-v] [-l LIMIT] [-H]
[--tsv]
[arguments [arguments ...]]
Censys query via command line
-- gelim
positional arguments:
arguments Censys query
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-m MATCH, --match MATCH
Highlight a string within an existing query result
-f FILTER, --filter FILTER
Filter the JSON keys to display for each result (use value 'help' for interesting fields)
--count Print the count result and exit
-r REPORT, --report REPORT
Stats on given field (use value 'help' for listing interesting fields)
-B REPORT_BUCKET, --report_bucket REPORT_BUCKET
Bucket len in report mode (default: 50)
-a ASN, --asn ASN Filter with ASN (ex: 36040 for Google Inc.)
-c COUNTRY, --country COUNTRY
Filter with country
-o CERT_ORG, --cert-org CERT_ORG
Cert issued to org
-i CERT_ISSUER, --cert-issuer CERT_ISSUER
Cert issued by org
-s CERT_HOST, --cert-host CERT_HOST
hostname cert is issued to
-S HTTP_SERVER, --http-server HTTP_SERVER
Server header
-t HTML_TITLE, --html-title HTML_TITLE
Filter on html page title
-b HTML_BODY, --html-body HTML_BODY
Filter on html body content
-T TAGS, --tags TAGS Filter on specific tags. E.g: -T tag1,tag2,... (use keyword 'list' to list usual tags
--api_id API_ID Censys API ID (optional if no env defined
--api_secret API_SECRET
Censys API SECRET (optional if no env defined)
-d, --debug Debug informations
-v, --verbose Print raw JSON records
-l LIMIT, --limit LIMIT
Limit to N results
-H, --html Renders html elements in a browser
--tsv Export result of search in TSV formatFor full details about the formatting rules for arguments see search syntax in page
https://censys.io/ipv4/help?q=x%3Ax
For a quick and dirty test, you can build queries like:
foo AND bar(will do a smart search by checking all keys with value foo and bar)path.to.key:fookey:foo(shortcut of previous, but will give strange results if there are collision with other keys)key:/regex/(regexp support via operator '/')key:"long string with spaces"(need to quote those strings)key:[200 TO 300](int range queries)key:192.168.0.0/24(IP range query)
Censys is backed by Elasticsearch, plus they filter the requests for performance reasons.
If you want to look for all values beginning with the string
Whatsapp, you can look for key:Whatsapp*. If you look only for
key:Whatsapp you will get only fields that where analyzed (strings
cut into pieces depending on language rules, specific tokens, etc.)
and contains facets with the exact string "Whatsapp".
An example to highlight that is the values stored in the key
443.https.tls.certificate.parsed.subject.organization. By looking for 443.https.tls.certificate.parsed.subject.organization:Whatsapp you will find ~90 results. Those will be entries with values:
WhatsApp Inc.WhatsApp Company LtdWhatsApp
But you will miss the values WhatsApp, Inc. that has ~350
entries. If we check censys.io "Data definitions" this field should be
analyzed as a "String" and the comma should be removed by the
tokenizer but something is not working as expecting.
So you need to be very careful when looking for substrings and try
different methods by either doing wildcards search (beware that Censys
disable beginning search term with a wildcard) or by using pure regexp
like /.*Whatsapp.*/.
Let's search for IP entries that contain the string "nmap" in one of their keys.
$ censy_io.py --limit 20 nmap
Number of results: 1002
5.196.225.134 Title: N/A SSL: dawidstachowiak.pl AS: OVH, (16276) Loc: FR / OS: N/A Tags: http, ssh, https
74.115.246.29 Title: BrainDump SSL: philmcclure.duckdns.org AS: ENERGIZE (19215) Loc: US / Pulaski OS: N/A Tags: http, ssh, https
104.237.156.37 Title: Starlight Networking Security Lab SSL: AS: LINODE-AP (63949) Loc: US / Absecon OS: N/A Tags: http, ssh
69.160.84.231 Title: N/A SSL: AS: FIBER (5048) Loc: US / Orem OS: CentOS Tags: http, ssh
45.79.82.183 Title: nweb.io SSL: nweb.io AS: LINODE-AP (63949) Loc: US / Absecon OS: N/A Tags: http, ssh, https
60.32.137.218 Title: Kyodo2.0 Digital-Lab News Map Project SSL: localhost.localdomain AS: OCN (4713) Loc: JP / Tokyo OS: Fedora Tags: dhe-export, rsa-export, http, https
104.237.129.231 Title: Ninja.Style SSL: AS: LINODE-AP (63949) Loc: US / Absecon OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh
192.109.14.42 Title: PASA Pallas SSL: pasa.pallas.com AS: PALLAS-AS, (24861) Loc: DE / OS: N/A Tags: http, https
45.33.32.156 Title: Go ahead and ScanMe! SSL: AS: LINODE-AP (63949) Loc: US / Absecon OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh
104.224.137.222 Title: SSL: AS: IT7NET (25820) Loc: US / Phoenix OS: CentOS Tags: http
119.81.35.59 Title: SL Labs SSL: AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: SG / Singapore OS: CentOS Tags: http
81.27.98.98 Title: Check for Web Servers and more SSL: AS: UK-NETCETERA (24851) Loc: GB / OS: Debian Tags: http
212.237.16.237 Title: Infosec Notes SSL: 2d8.ru AS: ARUBA-ASN, (31034) Loc: DK / OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, smtp, https
198.23.94.99 Title: SL Labs SSL: AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: US / San Jose OS: CentOS Tags: http
77.109.162.35 Title: Citrin Toolbox SSL: AS: INIT7, (13030) Loc: CH / OS: N/A Tags: http
121.42.165.133 Title: SSL: AS: CNNIC-ALIBABA-CN-NET-AP (37963) Loc: CN / Hangzhou OS: CentOS Tags: http, ssh
169.55.196.202 Title: SL Labs SSL: AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: US / OS: CentOS Tags: http
119.81.209.6 Title: SL Labs SSL: AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: SG / Singapore OS: CentOS Tags: http
216.59.36.36 Title: Wait, wha? SSL: AS: IMMEDION (15085) Loc: US / Greenville OS: N/A Tags: http
204.152.250.58 Title: My Blog SSL: AS: BCC-65-182-96-0-PHX (33055) Loc: US / Phoenix OS: N/A Tags: http$ censys_io.py -S SAP --count
3299$ censys_io.py -S ABAP --report location.country.raw --report_bucket 10
Number of results: 602
count raw
159 United States
90 Germany
30 Brazil
27 Italy
25 India
20 Australia
18 Canada
16 Denmark
16 Republic of Korea
16 SpainThis is a very cool feature, but unfortunately works only for tcp/80 scans. They don't store http content on https scans.
$ censys_io.py --title "IVRE Web UI"
Number of results: 17
62.210.244.184 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: AS12876, (12876) Loc: FR / OS: N/A Tags: http, ssh
206.128.155.79 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-SAVVIS (3561) Loc: US / Chesterfield OS: Ubuntu Tags: http
138.201.231.148 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: pms.pditsolutions.eu AS: HETZNER-AS, (24940) Loc: DE / OS: N/A Tags: http, ssh, https
140.86.51.236 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: NETDYNAMICS (7160) Loc: FR / Paris OS: Debian Tags: http, ssh
5.196.197.153 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: OVH, (16276) Loc: FR / OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh
206.128.155.47 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: CENTURYLINK-LEGACY-SAVVIS (3561) Loc: US / Chesterfield OS: Ubuntu Tags: http
45.77.23.20 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: AS-CHOOPA (20473) Loc: US / Matawan OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh
66.85.60.134 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: 5THCOLUMN (394205) Loc: US / OS: Ubuntu Tags: http
45.32.217.177 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: AS-CHOOPA (20473) Loc: US / Atlanta OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh
52.37.12.137 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: AMAZON-02 (16509) Loc: US / Wilmington OS: N/A Tags: http, ssh
209.126.161.62 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: CARINET (10439) Loc: US / San Diego OS: Debian Tags: http
45.32.35.133 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: AS-CHOOPA (20473) Loc: US / Matawan OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh
138.197.35.240 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: DIGITALOCEAN-ASN (14061) Loc: US / Wilmington OS: N/A Tags: http, ssh
52.32.21.139 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: AMAZON-02 (16509) Loc: US / Wilmington OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh
174.138.79.85 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: DIGITALOCEAN-ASN (14061) Loc: US / San Diego OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh
103.78.158.19 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: DIGITALCORPORATION-AS-AP (135671) Loc: / OS: N/A Tags: http
13.58.144.246 Title: IVRE Web UI SSL: AS: AMAZON-02 (16509) Loc: US / Norwalk OS: N/A Tags: http, ssh
$ censys_io.py --cert-org "Whatsapp*" --limit 10
Number of results: 456
104.236.63.164 Title: phpinfo() SSL: web.whatsapp.com AS: DIGITALOCEAN-ASN-NY3 (393406) Loc: US / New York OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh, https
169.55.74.44 Title: N/A SSL: *.whatsapp.net + *.whatsapp.net AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: US / OS: N/A Tags: https
169.55.69.140 Title: N/A SSL: *.whatsapp.net + *.whatsapp.net AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: US / OS: N/A Tags: https
169.45.71.55 Title: N/A SSL: *.whatsapp.net + *.whatsapp.net AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: NL / OS: N/A Tags: https
169.45.71.118 Title: N/A SSL: *.whatsapp.net + *.whatsapp.net AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: NL / OS: N/A Tags: https
169.54.210.17 Title: N/A SSL: *.whatsapp.net + *.whatsapp.net AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: US / OS: N/A Tags: https
169.55.235.181 Title: N/A SSL: *.whatsapp.net + *.whatsapp.net AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: US / OS: N/A Tags: https
169.45.71.42 Title: N/A SSL: *.whatsapp.net + *.whatsapp.net AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: NL / OS: N/A Tags: https
158.85.5.217 Title: N/A SSL: *.whatsapp.net + *.whatsapp.net AS: SOFTLAYER (36351) Loc: US / Chantilly OS: N/A Tags: https
177.75.8.102 Title: N/A SSL: *.whatsapp.net + *.whatsapp.net AS: Networld Provedor e Servicos de Internet Ltda, BR (28178)Loc: BR / OS: N/A Tags: https
Let's have a look at SAP ABAP servers answering an error on their frontpage and let's highlight an interesting keyword:
censys_io.py -t "Logon Error Message" -S ABAP -m "ICF-nf-http" --limit 10
$ censys_io.py ip:8.8.8.8 --verbose
Number of results: 1
{u'53': {u'dns': {u'lookup': {u'additionals': [],
u'answers': [{u'name': u'c.afekv.com',
u'response': u'192.150.186.1',
u'type': u'A'},
{u'name': u'c.afekv.com',
u'response': u'74.125.76.6',
u'type': u'A'}],
u'authorities': [],
u'errors': False,
u'metadata': {},
u'open_resolver': True,
u'questions': [{u'name': u'c.afekv.com',
u'type': u'A'}],
u'resolves_correctly': True,
u'support': True}}},
u'autonomous_system': {u'asn': 15169,
u'country_code': u'',
u'description': u'GOOGLE - Google Inc., US',
u'name': u'GOOGLE',
u'organization': u'Google Inc., US',
u'path': [15169],
u'rir': u'unknown',
u'routed_prefix': u'8.8.8.0/24'},
u'ip': u'8.8.8.8',
u'location': {u'city': u'Mountain View',
u'continent': u'North America',
u'country': u'United States',
u'country_code': u'US',
u'latitude': 37.386,
u'longitude': -122.0838,
u'postal_code': u'94040',
u'province': u'California',
u'registered_country': u'United States',
u'registered_country_code': u'US',
u'timezone': u'America/Los_Angeles'},
u'metadata': {},
u'protocols': [u'53/dns'],
u'tags': [],
u'updated_at': u'2016-06-02T06:50:30+00:00'}
$ censys_io.py -f list
['location.country',
'location.country_code',
'location.city',
'ip',
'protocols',
'autonomous_system.name',
'autonomous_system.asn',
'443.https.tls.certificate.parsed.subject.organization',
'443.https.tls.certificate.parsed.subject.common_name',
'443.https.tls.certificate.parsed.extensions.subject_alt_name.dns_names',
'993.imaps.tls.tls.certificate.parsed.subject.common_name',
'993.imaps.tls.tls.certificate.parsed.subject.organization',
'80.http.get.title',
'80.http.get.headers.server',
'80.http.get.body',
'metadata.os',
'tags']
$ censys_io.py --html-title "Hacked by" --limit 20 --html
Number of results: 1044
185.71.217.66 Title: Hacked By SSL: AS: SSDHOSTING, (201534) Loc: CY / OS: Unix Tags: pop3, ftp, http, pop3s, smtp, imap, imaps
45.55.207.28 Title: Hacked By M.e-dz – Hacked By M.e-dz SSL: AS: DIGITALOCEAN-ASN (14061) Loc: US / New York OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh
190.156.247.34 Title: hacked by suliman_hacker – hack[...] SSL: AS: Telmex Colombia S.A., CO (10620) Loc: CO / OS: Ubuntu Tags: http
206.225.85.55 Title: Hacked By NorilaClasse | Hacked By No[...] SSL: AS: CODERO-DFW (18501) Loc: US / Overland Park OS: Ubuntu Tags: ftp, http, ssh
69.89.28.35 Title: Hacked by bl4ck_cod3 | Hacked by bl4c[...] SSL: www.phliworldwide.com AS: UNIFIEDLAYER-AS-1 (46606) Loc: US / Provo OS: N/A Tags: pop3, ftp, http, ssh, https, pop3s, imap, imaps
188.215.244.170 Title: Hacked by Ashura - Hacked by Ashura SSL: rohc.ro + rohc.ro+ AS: GTSCE (5588) Loc: RO / OS: N/A Tags: pop3, ftp, http, https, pop3s, imap, imaps
95.213.235.31 Title: Hacked by ZeDaN-Mrx | Hacked by ZeDaN-Mrx SSL: AS: SELECTEL, (49505) Loc: RU / OS: Ubuntu Tags: http, ssh
216.247.60.144 Title: Hacked By DeathCreppy Death-Stalkers [...] SSL: technology4vision.com + technology4vision.com+AS: PEER1 (13768) Loc: US / Atlanta OS: N/A Tags: pop3, ftp, http, ssh, https, pop3s, imap, imaps
149.56.147.247 Title: Hacked by zakiloup – Hacked by [...] SSL: savilerowtailors.ca + savilerowtailors.ca+ AS: OVH, (16276) Loc: US / Anaheim OS: N/A Tags: pop3, ftp, http, ssh, https, imap, imaps
216.235.2.38 Title: Hacked by CoLDHaCKeR , Hacked by Sensi SSL: AS: E-GATE-COMMUNICATIONS (13657) Loc: CA / Toronto OS: FreeBSD Tags: ftp, http
31.14.23.187 Title: Hacked by Ashura | Hacked by Ashura SSL: e-techdevelopment.ro + e-techdevelopment.ro+ AS: GTSCE (5588) Loc: RO / OS: N/A Tags: pop3, ftp, http, https, pop3s, imap, imaps
188.215.244.141 Title: Hacked by Ashura – Hacked by Ashura SSL: bisericafloresti.ro + bisericafloresti.ro+ AS: GTSCE (5588) Loc: RO / OS: N/A Tags: pop3, ftp, http, https, pop3s, imap, imaps
118.96.152.47 Title: Hacked By $!R05 SSL: AS: TELKOMNET-AS2-AP (17974) Loc: ID / Magelang OS: N/A Tags: http, ssh
207.7.94.210 Title: Hacked by Katib SSL: pureinternet.com.au + pureinternet.com.au+ AS: PRIVATESYSTEMS (63410) Loc: US / Los Angeles OS: N/A Tags: pop3, ftp, http, https, pop3s, imap, imaps
209.29.150.141 Title: Hacked By GHoST61 SSL: www.snakeoil.dom AS: ASN852 (852) Loc: CA / OS: Unix Tags: ftp, dhe-export, rsa-export, http, https
46.229.175.179 Title: HaCKeD By PoLoNia WwW.NeTSaW.OrG SSL: AS: ADVANCEDHOSTERS-AS, (39572) Loc: US / OS: Unix Tags: ftp, http, ssh
71.18.197.222 Title: Hacked By #nof34rPT SSL: *.opentransfer.com + *.opentransfer.com+ AS: OPENTRANSFER-ECOMMERCE (32392) Loc: US / Columbus OS: N/A Tags: ftp, http, https
88.198.101.66 Title: Hacked By Cyb3r Gl@diat0rs SSL: AS: HETZNER-AS, (24940) Loc: DE / OS: Debian Tags: http, ssh
176.226.210.113 Title: Hacked by Mr.Sh4hz3b-HaXoR SSL: AS: INTERSVYAZ-AS (8369) Loc: RU / Kurgan OS: N/A Tags: http
129.121.106.11 Title: HaCked By virus3033 SSL: AS: NEXCESS-NET (36444) Loc: US / Redwood City OS: N/A Tags: ftp, http
We then can browse /tmp/tmpx5HjqB like in 
Content is available in key '80.http.get.body' and saved to disk for offline analysis. Beware of malicious content that could be viewed from the browser. No filtering is done on the content stored on disk.
$ censys_io.py --tags heartbleed --report location.country.raw
Number of results: 213034
46565 United States
26009 China
12383 Germany
8138 India
8004 Russia
6471 United Kingdom
6111 France
5817 Italy
5387 Republic of Korea
5257 Japan
Well, I use this great OSINT source for my assignments sometime when I want to show the client his internet exposure, or for bug bounties to do landscape discovery. This is as well a good example to show that port scanning is not evil and help to increase security posture awareness.