BBOT - Security Cipher

BEE·bot is a multipurpose scanner inspired by Spiderfoot, built to automate your Recon, Bug Bounties, and ASM!

https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/bbot/assets/20261699/e539e89b-92ea-46fa-b893-9cde94eebf81

A BBOT scan in real-time - visualization with VivaGraphJS

Installation

# stable version
pipx install bbot

# bleeding edge (dev branch)
pipx install --pip-args '\--pre' bbot

For more installation methods, including Docker, see Getting Started

Upgrading from 2.x? BBOT 3.0 contains breaking changes to the CLI, presets, modules, events, and Python API. See the 2.x → 3.0 Migration Guide (source) before upgrading.

Speed tip: BBOT's DNS resolver (blastdns) spins up multiple threads per resolver in /etc/resolv.conf. Adding more unfiltered resolvers dramatically speeds up scans. See the sample resolv.conf and Tips and Tricks for details.

Example Commands

1) Subdomain Finder

Passive API sources plus a recursive DNS brute-force with target-specific subdomain mutations.

# find subdomains of evilcorp.com
bbot -t evilcorp.com -p subdomain-enum

# passive sources only
bbot -t evilcorp.com -p subdomain-enum -rf passive

subdomain-enum.yml

description: Enumerate subdomains via APIs, brute-force

flags:
  # enable every module with the subdomain-enum flag
  - subdomain-enum

output_modules:
  # output unique subdomains to TXT file
  - subdomains

config:
  dns:
    threads: 25
    brute_threads: 1000
  # put your API keys here
  # modules:
  #   github:
  #     api_key: ""
  #   chaos:
  #     api_key: ""
  #   securitytrails:
  #     api_key: ""

BBOT consistently finds 20-50% more subdomains than other tools. The bigger the domain, the bigger the difference. To learn how this is possible, see How It Works.

2) Web Spider

# crawl evilcorp.com, extracting emails and other goodies
bbot -t evilcorp.com -p spider

spider.yml

description: Recursive web spider

modules:
  - http

blacklist:
  # Prevent spider from invalidating sessions by logging out
  - "RE:/.*(sign|log)[_-]?out"

config:
  web:
    # how many links to follow in a row
    spider_distance: 2
    # don't follow links whose directory depth is higher than 4
    spider_depth: 4
    # maximum number of links to follow per page
    spider_links_per_page: 25

3) Email Gatherer

# quick email enum with free APIs + scraping
bbot -t evilcorp.com -p email-enum

# pair with subdomain enum + web spider for maximum yield
bbot -t evilcorp.com -p email-enum subdomain-enum spider

email-enum.yml

description: Enumerate email addresses from APIs, web crawling, etc.

flags:
  - email-enum

output_modules:
  - emails

4) Web Scanner

# run a light web scan against www.evilcorp.com
bbot -t www.evilcorp.com -p web

# run a heavy web scan against www.evilcorp.com
bbot -t www.evilcorp.com -p web-heavy

web.yml

description: Quick web scan

include:
  - iis-shortnames

flags:
  - web

web-heavy.yml

description: Aggressive web scan

include:
  # include the web preset
  - web

flags:
  - web-heavy

5) Everything Everywhere All at Once

# everything everywhere all at once
bbot -t evilcorp.com -p kitchen-sink

# roughly equivalent to:
bbot -t evilcorp.com -p subdomain-enum cloud-enum code-enum email-enum spider web paramminer webbrute web-screenshots

kitchen-sink.yml

description: Everything everywhere all at once

include:
  - subdomain-enum
  - cloud-enum
  - code-enum
  - email-enum
  - spider
  - web
  - paramminer
  - webbrute
  - web-screenshots
  - baddns-heavy

config:
  modules:
    dnsbrute:
      recursive_mutations: true
    dnscommonsrv:
      recursive_mutations: true
    webbrute:
      avoid_wafs: False
    wayback:
      urls: True
      parameters: True
      archive: True

How it Works

Click the graph below to explore the inner workings of BBOT.

Output Modules

...and more!

BBOT as a Python Library

Synchronous

from bbot.scanner import Scanner

if __name__ == "__main__":
    scan = Scanner("evilcorp.com", presets=["subdomain-enum"])
    for event in scan.start():
        print(event)

Asynchronous

from bbot.scanner import Scanner

async def main():
    scan = Scanner("evilcorp.com", presets=["subdomain-enum"])
    async for event in scan.async_start():
        print(event.json())

if __name__ == "__main__":
    import asyncio
    asyncio.run(main())

SEE: This Nefarious Discord Bot

A BBOT Discord Bot that responds to the /scan command. Scan the internet from the comfort of your discord server!

Feature Overview

Support for Multiple Targets
Web Screenshots
Suite of Offensive Web Modules
NLP-powered Subdomain Mutations
Native Output to Neo4j (and more)
Automatic dependency install with Ansible
Search entire attack surface with custom YARA rules
Python API + Developer Documentation

Targets

BBOT accepts an unlimited number of targets via -t. You can specify targets either directly on the command line or in files (or both!):

bbot -t evilcorp.com evilcorp.org 1.2.3.0/24 -p subdomain-enum

Targets can be any of the following:

DNS Name (evilcorp.com)
IP Address (1.2.3.4)
IP Range (1.2.3.0/24)
Open TCP Port (192.168.0.1:80)
URL (https://www.evilcorp.com)
Email Address (bob@evilcorp.com)
Organization (ORG:evilcorp)
Username (USER:bobsmith)
Filesystem (FILESYSTEM:/tmp/asdf)
Mobile App (MOBILE_APP:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.evilcorp.app)

For more information, see Targets. To learn how BBOT handles scope, see Scope.

API Keys

Similar to Amass or Subfinder, BBOT supports API keys for various third-party services such as SecurityTrails, etc.

The standard way to do this is to enter your API keys in ~/.config/bbot/secrets.yml. Note that multiple API keys are allowed:

modules:
  shodan_dns:
    api_key: 4f41243847da693a4f356c0486114bc6
  c99:
    # multiple API keys
    api_key:
      - 21a270d5f59c9b05813a72bb41707266
      - ea8f243d9885cf8ce9876a580224fd3c
      - 5bc6ed268ab6488270e496d3183a1a27
  virustotal:
    api_key: dd5f0eee2e4a99b71a939bded450b246
  securitytrails:
    api_key: d9a05c3fd9a514497713c54b4455d0b0

If you like, you can also specify them on the command line:

bbot -c modules.virustotal.api_key=dd5f0eee2e4a99b71a939bded450b246

For details, see Configuration.

Complete Lists of Modules, Flags, etc.

Complete list of Modules.
Complete list of Flags.
Complete list of Presets.
- Complete list of Global Config Options.
- Complete list of Module Config Options.

Documentation

User Manual
- Basics
- Scanning
  - Scanning Overview
  - Presets
    - Overview
    - List of Presets
  - Events
  - Output
  - Tips and Tricks
  - Advanced Usage
  - Configuration
  - Scan Sanity
- Modules
- Migration
  - 2.x → 3.0 Breaking Changes
- Misc
Developer Manual
- Development Overview
- Setting Up a Dev Environment
- Core Dependencies
- BBOT Internal Architecture
- How to Write a BBOT Module
- Validating & Inspecting Presets
- Unit Tests
- Discord Bot Example
- Code Reference
  - Scanner
  - Presets
  - Event
  - Target
  - BaseModule
  - BBOTCore
  - Helpers

Contribution

Some of the best BBOT modules were written by the community. BBOT is being constantly improved; every day it grows more powerful!

We welcome contributions. Not just code, but ideas too! If you have an idea for a new feature, please let us know in Discussions. If you want to get your hands dirty, see Contribution. There you can find setup instructions and a simple tutorial on how to write a BBOT module. We also have extensive Developer Documentation.

Thanks to these amazing people for contributing to BBOT! ❤️

Special thanks to:

@TheTechromancer for creating BBOT
@liquidsec for his extensive work on BBOT's web hacking features, including badsecrets and baddns
Steve Micallef (@smicallef) for creating Spiderfoot
@kerrymilan for his Neo4j and Ansible expertise
@domwhewell-sage for his family of badass code-looting modules
@aconite33 and @amiremami for their ruthless testing
Aleksei Kornev (@alekseiko) for granting us ownership of the bbot Pypi repository <3