Credential Hunting

Basic Searches

These searches will search directories for keywords related to credentials. Try running these in suspicious directories, such as those hosting installed software under /etc/ or /opt/ .

grep --color=auto -rnw '/' -ie "PASSWORD" --color=always 2> /dev/null
find . -type f -exec grep -i -I "PASSWORD" {} /dev/null \;
grep -inwr 'password\|^user\|secret$' /etc 2>/dev/null

Filetype Searches

These searches find typically valuable file extensions, like configuration files or databases.

# Database Files
for l in $(echo ".sql .db .*db .db*");do echo -e "\nDB File extension: " $l; find / -name *$l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "doc\|lib\|headers\|share\|man";done

# Configuration Files
for l in $(echo ".conf .config .cnf");do echo -e "\nFile extension: " $l; find / -name *$l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "lib\|fonts\|share\|core" ;done

# Notes and Scripts
find /home/* -type f -name "*.txt" -o ! -name "*.*"
for l in $(echo ".py .pyc .pl .go .jar .c .sh");do echo -e "\nFile extension: " $l; find / -name *$l 2>/dev/null | grep -v "doc\|lib\|headers\|share";done

# SSH Keys
grep -rnw "PRIVATE KEY" /home/* 2>/dev/null | grep ":1"

# Logs
for i in $(ls /var/log/* 2>/dev/null);do GREP=$(grep "accepted\|session opened\|session closed\|failure\|failed\|ssh\|password changed\|new user\|delete user\|sudo\|COMMAND\=\|logs" $i 2>/dev/null); if [[ $GREP ]];then echo -e "\n#### Log file: " $i; grep "accepted\|session opened\|session closed\|failure\|failed\|ssh\|password changed\|new user\|delete user\|sudo\|COMMAND\=\|logs" $i 2>/dev/null;fi;done