Simple Python Portscan Function

Here's a basic portscan function written in python -  http://pastebin.com/v6ntptfT

Python Curses Example / Tutorial

I wanted to make a small example tutorial on getting started with a curses UI in python. We'll get started by creating our screen and adding a simple string;

import curses

screen = curses.initscr() # Creates our screen
curses.noecho() # Keeps the keys we press from
curses.cbreak() # Takes input right away
screen.keypad(1)
screen.addstr(10,0,"Resist Monsanto!") # Add a string at 10,0
screen.refresh() # Refresh screen now that strings added
# While loop to wait for key events, then
while 1:
 key = screen.getch() # Get presse keys
 if key == ord("q"): break
curses.endwin() # Closes curses environment

This should result in a screen with the string "Resist Monsanto" in it. If we wanted to use colors we can create color pairs to use like so:

First we initiate the color scheme and than we will create a color pair;

curses.start_color()
curses.init_pair(1, curses.COLOR_CYAN, curses.COLOR_BLACK) # Creates a color pair as 1 with foreground cyan and background black

We can now use this color pair when adding a string for example;

screen.addstr(10,25,"Resist Monsanto!",curses.color_pair(1)) # Add a COLORED string located at (10,25)


This would result in the following script - http://pastebin.com/0EU7UKqZ

But lets say we wanted to get user input rather than just the key event and create a variable out of it, in this case we would use curses.getstr() function. Here we'll create a simple function to get our input called command().

def command():

 curses.echo() # Allows out input to be echo'd to the screen

 cmd = screen.getstr(0,1,15) # Creates an "input box" at the location (0,1) with an input buffer of 15

Now that we have out input as the string cmd, lets just verify it worked and echo it back out.

def command():  # Press "c" to start user input

 curses.echo() # Allows out input to be echo'd to the screen

 cmd = screen.getstr(0,1,15) # Creates an "input box" at the location (0,1) with an input buffer of 15 chars
 curses.noecho() # Turns echo back off
 screen.addstr(2,0,cmd,curses.color_pair(2)) # Adds users input

This would result in the following - http://pastebin.com/zVzrGz0n

You can use that input for whatever you'd like now, whether you want to issue a subprocess and pipe the ouput to the UI, or connect to a server, but that sums up this quick example. I'll delve more into it in a latter post. Take care!

Python Script for Monitoring a site to see whether it's up or down

Quick script I coded to save me time checking to see if a site was down, so I wrote this script to do it for me and to send me an alert using "libnotify-bin" if it happens to go down.

Two methods are available, Ping and HTTP Requests.

If I decide to add more methods, or add more sites to the HTTP request (to insure accuracy) than I'll post an update.. until then I hope you find this useful!

Source - http://pastebin.com/6Aemf2Y8

Python Script to Parse Files for MD5 Hashes

This script demonstrates basic usage of regular expressions in order to look for MD5's (AKA [0-9a-f]{32}) and write them to an output file.

Usage :

Python # python md5parser.py SomeFile.txt MD5list

File parsed ~ 6 hashes found.

Python # cat MD5list
aad3b435b51404eeaad3b435b51404ee
9a5760252b7455deaad3b435b51404ee
0d7f1f2bdeac6e574d6e18ca85fb58a7
9a5760252b7455deaad3b435b51404ee
0d7f1f2bdeac6e574d6e18ca85fb58a7
098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6

Script: http://pastebin.com/PPnDs6AU