S3Scanner
Tool and Usage
Project details
- License
- MIT
- Programming language
- Python
- Author
- Dan Salmon
- Latest release
- 3.1.1
- Latest release date
Project health
Links
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Why this tool?
The aptly named S3Scanner is to be used to detect AWS S3 buckets. Discovered buckets are displayed, together with the related objects in the bucket.
How it works
S3Scanner uses a list of entries to digest. With this list it will try to find available S3 buckets. Several formats can be used (bucket name, domain name, full S3 URL, or bucket:region).
Usage and audience
S3Scanner is commonly used for information gathering, information leak detection, penetration testing, or storage security testing. Target users for this tool are pentesters and security professionals.
Features
- Command line interface
Example usage and output
# s3scanner - Find S3 buckets and dump!
#
# Author: Dan Salmon - @bltjetpack, github.com/sa7mon
positional arguments:
buckets Name of text file containing buckets to check
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o OUTFILE, --out-file OUTFILE
Name of file to save the successfully checked buckets in (Default: buckets.txt)
-d, --dump Dump all found open buckets locally
-l, --list List all found open buckets locally
--version Display the current version of this tool
Tool review and remarks
The review and analysis of this project resulted in the following remarks for this security tool:
Strengths
- + The source code of this software is available
Installation
Supported operating systems
S3Scanner is known to work on Linux.
S3Scanner alternatives
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Teh S3 Bucketeers
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BuQuikker
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Bucket Finder
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Categories
This tool is categorized as a AWS security tool, Amazon S3 bucket scanner, and data leak scanner.