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Buckets

Find interesting S3 buckets by watching Certificate Transparency logs.

🚨 Bucket Stream is no longer maintained. If you need support or consultation for your red teaming endeavours, drop me an e-mail paul@darkport.co.uk 🚨

Bucket Stream

Find interesting Amazon S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs.

This tool simply listens to various certificate transparency logs (via certstream) and attempts to find public S3 buckets from permutations of the certificates domain name.

Demo

Be responsible. I mainly created this tool to highlight the risks associated with public S3 buckets and to put a different spin on the usual dictionary based attacks. Some quick tips if you use S3 buckets:

  1. Randomise your bucket names! There is no need to use company-backup.s3.amazonaws.com.
  2. Set appropriate permissions and audit regularly. If possible create two buckets - one for your public assets and another for private data.
  3. Be mindful about your data. What are suppliers, contractors and third parties doing with it? Where and how is it stored? These basic questions should be addressed in every info sec policy.
  4. Try Amazon Macie - it can automatically classify and secure sensitive data.

Thanks to my good friend David (@riskobscurity) for the idea.

Installation

Python 3.4+ and pip3 are required. Then just:

  1. git clone https://github.com/eth0izzle/bucket-stream.git
  2. (optional) Create a virtualenv with pip3 install virtualenv && virtualenv .virtualenv && source .virtualenv/bin/activate
  3. pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  4. python3 bucket-stream.py

Usage

Simply run python3 bucket-stream.py.

If you provide AWS access and secret keys in config.yaml Bucket Stream will attempt to access authenticated buckets and identity the buckets owner. Unauthenticated users are severely rate limited.

usage: python bucket-stream.py

Find interesting Amazon S3 Buckets by watching certificate transparency logs.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            Show this help message and exit
  --only-interesting    Only log 'interesting' buckets whose contents match
                        anything within keywords.txt (default: False)
  --skip-lets-encrypt   Skip certs (and thus listed domains) issued by Let's
                        Encrypt CA (default: False)
  -t , --threads        Number of threads to spawn. More threads = more power.
                        Limited to 5 threads if unauthenticated.
                        (default: 20)
  --ignore-rate-limiting
                        If you ignore rate limits not all buckets will be
                        checked (default: False)
  -l, --log             Log found buckets to a file buckets.log (default:
                        False)
  -s, --source          Data source to check for bucket permutations. Uses
                        certificate transparency logs if not specified.
                        (default: None)
  -p, --permutations    Path of file containing a list of permutations to try
                        (see permutations/ dir). (default: permutations\default.txt)

F.A.Qs

  • Nothing appears to be happening

    Patience! Sometimes certificate transparency logs can be quiet for a few minutes. Ideally provide AWS secrets in config.yaml as this greatly speeds up the checking rate.

  • I found something highly confidential

    Report it - please! You can usually figure out the owner from the bucket name or by doing some quick reconnaissance. Failing that contact Amazon's support teams.

Contributing

  1. Fork it, baby!
  2. Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-new-feature
  3. Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
  4. Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
  5. Submit a pull request.

License

MIT. See LICENSE

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