CLI Usage

... or how you can use secator as your pentesting swiss-knife.

secator is first and foremost a command-line interface (CLI). This page describes how to use it in-depth.

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Usage

secator --help # General help
secator x      # List available tasks
secator w      # List available workflows
secator s      # List available scans
secator u      # List available utilities

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Running tasks

You can run any of the supported tasks out-of-the box using the secator x (execute) subcommand:

subfinder

Find subdomains of a domain using offline sources with subfinder:

secator x subfinder wikipedia.org

httpx

ffuf

nmap

maigret

Use secator x <NAME> --help to list options for a specific task.

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Running workflows

A workflow is a set of pre-defined tasks.

You can run some pre-written workflows using the secator w (workflow) subcommand:

Host recon

To perform a basic host recon (open ports, network + HTTP vulnerabilities):

secator w host_recon 192.168.1.18

Subdomain recon

URL crawl

URL fuzz

Code scan

User hunt

Use secator w <NAME> --help to list options for a specific workflow.

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Running scans

A scan is a set of workflows that run one after the other.

You can run some pre-written scans using the secator s subcommand:

Domain scan

secator s domain example.com

Subdomain scan

Network scan

URL Scan

Use secator s <NAME> --help to list a options for a specific scan.

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Running utils

secator provides a number of utilities that can be useful when doing pentesting.

Proxy

You can get a random proxy:

secator u proxy                  # print a random proxy
secator u proxy -n 5 --timeout 1 # print 5 proxies with 1s max timeout

Reverse shells

You can spawn reverse shells in any language, and optional netcat listener:

secator u revshell                                     # list all reverse shells
secator u revshell bash                                # show a Bash reverse shell
secator u revshell javascript -h <LHOST> -p <LPORT>    # show a Javascript reverse shell to connect to LHOST / LPORT
secator u revshell javascript -h <LHOST> -p <LPORT> -l # ... also spawn a netcat listener

Serve

You can run an HTTP server to serve payloads:

secator u serve

Recording

You can record pentesting sessions as a GIF:

secator u record -i <RECORD_NAME>                # record an interactive session
secator u record --script test.sh <RECORD_NAME>  # put your commands in a script and record the execution

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Configuring secator

To configure secator, use the following commands:

secator c get                                     # get full config (with defaults)
secator c get --user                              # get user config
secator c get wordlists.defaults.http             # get default wordlist path
secator c set wordlists.defaults.http rockyou.txt # set default wordlist 
secator c edit                                    # edit user config yaml
secator c default                                 # get default config

To see the full available configuration options, get the default configuration using secator c default.

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Running a worker [optional]

You can enable enable distributed runs by starting secator workers. All tasks / workflows / scans will be sent to the workers for execution.

You can run a worker using the file system as a broker and result backend:

secator install addons worker
secator worker

Learn more about Distributed runs with Celery

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