After much stressing over API design and refactoring ronin-scanners 1.0.0.pre1 has been released. 1.0.0.pre1 is a complete rewrite of ronin-scanners when compared to 0.1.4; released back in 2009. The new API for ronin-scanners now allows for developers to write Scanners in Ruby and have their results automatically imported into the Ronin Database! This new API opens the door for quickly pulling data off the internet and into Ronin.

Install

ronin-scanners 1.0.0.pre1 can be installed from rubygems.org like so:

$ gem install ronin-scanners --pre

API

All Ronin Scanners inherit from the Ronin::Scanners::Scanner base class.

For a Scanner to be a functioning scanner, it must define a scan method. The scan method performs the actual “scanning” and yields each result. A result from a Scanner can be any kind of Object; whatever makes the most sense for a particular Scanner.

def scan
  sitemap = Nokogiri::XML(http_get_body(:path => SITEMAP_PATH))

  sitemap.search('/urlset/url/loc/.').each do |url|
    yield url
  end
end

Parameters

Since the scan method takes no arguments, Scanners are configured by the parameters they define.

# The URL to start spidering at.
parameter :start_at, :description => 'The URI to start scanning at'

# The hosts to spider.
parameter :hosts, :default => Set[],
                  :description => 'The hosts to scan'

Results

Many Scanners will likely invoke third-party scanners, and the returned results may not always be so consistent. For this, one can define a normalize_result method:

def normalize_result(result)
  unless result.kind_of?(::URI::Generic)
    begin
      URI.parse(result.to_s)
    rescue URI::InvalidURIError, URI::InvalidComponentError
    end
  else
    result
  end
end

If normalize_result returns nil, the result is considered invalid and ignored.

Resources

In order for a Scanner to import results into the Database, it must define a new_resource method. The new_resource method takes a Scanner result and converts it into a Database Resource, which can later be saved into the Database.

def new_resource(result)
  IPAddress.first_or_new(:address => result)
end

Depending on which Scanner base-class one inherits from (ex: URLScanner), a new_resource method may already be defined.

Methods

The Scanner base class defines three methods for enumerating over Scanner results:

  1. each - The primary enumerator method, which simply calls scan and yields the Scanner results.
  2. each_resource - Simply calls each and converts each Scanner result into a Database Resource object via the new_resource method.
  3. import - Simply calls each_resource, saves each new Database Resource returned by new_resource and yields the successfully saved Resources.

For convenience sake, Scanner also define class-methods for each, scan and import.

Ronin::Scanners::Spider.import(:hosts => ['www.example.com']) do |url|
  puts "Scanned #{url}"
end

Classes

ronin-scanners provides various Scanner base-classes:

ronin-scanners also provides several built-in Scanners:

Commands

ronin-scanners provides several commands for the built-in Scanners:

  • $ ronin scanners - Starts the Ronin Console with ronin-scanners loaded.
  • $ ronin scanner - Loads a Scanner from a file or from the Database and runs it.
  • $ ronin scan:dork - Performs Google Dorks.
  • $ ronin scan:nmap - Automates nmap scans and imports them into the Database.
  • $ ronin scan:proxies - Scans for proxies and imports them into the Database.
  • $ ronin scan:spider - Spiders a website and saves URLs into the Database.

How to Help

Since this is a pre-release and a complete rewrite of ronin-scanners, your help is greatly needed! Here’s how you can help out:

  1. Install it ($ gem install ronin-scanners --pre)
  2. Test the commands
  3. Review the documentation
  4. Attempt to write a script which uses one of the Scanners
  5. Submit bugs or suggestions on GitHub

Let’s make ronin-scanners 1.0.0 a solid release!

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