DataSurgeon v1.2.8

DataSurgeon (ds) is a versatile tool designed for incident response, DLP, penetration testing, and CTF challenges. It allows for the extraction of various types of sensitive information including emails, phone numbers, hashes, credit cards, URLs, IP addresses, MAC addresses, SRV DNS records and a lot more!

• Supports Windows, Linux and MacOS
• Support recursive file analysis within directories
• Plugin Support
• CSV Output

Quick Links

• Extraction Features
• Recent Updates
• Quick Install
• Command Line Arguments
• Examples
• Speed Tests
• Managing Plugins
  • Where to Submit Plugin Suggestions
  • Adding a New Plugin
  • Listing All Plugins
  • How to Use Your New Plugin
  • Updating a Plugin
  • Removing a Plugin
  • Creating Your Own Plugin
• Reporting Issues
• Project Goals

Extraction Features

To learn how to manage plugins please follow the guide here.

Personal Information

• Emails
• Phone numbers
• Social Security Numbers

Financial Information

• Credit Cards
• Bitcoin wallets

Network Information

• URL's
• IPv4 Addresses and IPv6 addresses
• MAC Addresses
• SRV DNS Records

Security Information

• Google API Private Key ID's
• AWS Keys
• CVE Numbers (PLUGIN)

System and File Information

• Files
• Windows Registries (PLUGIN)

Hashes

• MD4 & MD5
• SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512
• SHA-3 224, SHA-3 256, SHA-3 384, SHA-3 512
• MySQL 323, MySQL 41
• NTLM
• bcrypt

Recent Updates

5/25/2023 | 1.2.0

This update brings a plugin management system to DataSurgeon. You can now add, remove, and list plugins using the --add, --remove, and --list options.

I also added a new plugin, ds-winreg-plugin, that can find Windows registry paths.

To add a new plugin, use --add <URL>, where the URL is a GitHub repository with a plugins.json file. To remove a plugin, use --remove <URL>. To see all your plugins, use the --list option.

Once a plugin is added, you can use it as an argument in DataSurgeon. The argument's name is the "Argument Long Name" in the plugin's plugins.json file.

Quick Install

The quick installer can also be used to update DataSurgeon.

Video Guide

Install Rust and Github then RESTART YOUR TERMINAL.

Linux

read -p "Would you like to add 'ds' to your local bin? This will make 'ds' executable from any location in your terminal. (y/n) " response && wget -q -O - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Drew-Alleman/DataSurgeon/main/install/install.sh | bash -s -- "$response"

Windows

Enter the line below in an elevated powershell window.

IEX (New-Object Net.WebClient).DownloadString("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Drew-Alleman/DataSurgeon/main/install/install.ps1")

Relaunch your terminal and you will be able to use ds from the command line.

Mac

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Drew-Alleman/DataSurgeon/main/install/install.sh | sh

Command Line Arguments

Video Guide

Examples

Extracting Files From a Remote Webiste

Here I use wget to make a request to stackoverflow then I forward the body text to ds . The -F option will list all files found. --clean is used to remove any extra text that might have been returned (such as extra html). Then the result of is sent to uniq which removes any non unique files found. Ig you wanted you can remove the warning message at the top 'Reading standard input..' by using -S.

$ wget -qO - https://www.stackoverflow.com | ds -F --clean | uniq

Extracting Mac Addresses From an Output File

Here I am pulling all mac addresses found in autodeauth's log file using the -m query. The --hide option will hide the identifer string infront of the results. In this case 'mac_address: ' is hidden from the output. The -T option is used to check the same line multiple times for matches. Normallly when a match is found the tool moves on to the next line rather then checking again.

$ ./ds -m -T --hide -f /var/log/autodeauth/log     
2023-02-26 00:28:19 - Sending 500 deauth frames to network: BC:2E:48:E5:DE:FF -- PrivateNetwork
2023-02-26 00:35:22 - Sending 500 deauth frames to network: 90:58:51:1C:C9:E1 -- TestNet

Reading all files in a directory

You can use the --directory option to read all files in the specified directory recursively. The -D option is used to display the filename where the match was found. -l or --line is used to display the line number the content was found on.

$ ds --directory test_dir/ -Dl

CSV Output

To output your results to a CSV file, use the -o option followed by the name of the file you want to save your data to. The -D and -X are supported. The format is: ds -o <FILENAME>.csv (.csv is needed).

 $ wget -qO - https://www.stackoverflow.com | ds -o output.csv -C

Speed Tests

When no specific query is provided, ds will search through all possible types of data, which is SIGNIFICANTLY slower than using individual queries. The slowest query is --files. Its also slightly faster to use cat to pipe the data to ds.

Below is the elapsed time when processing a 5GB test file generated by ds-test. Each test was ran 3 times and the average time was recorded.

Computer Specs

Processor	Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-10400F CPU @ 2.90GHz, 2904 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s)
Ram         12.0 GB (11.9 GB usable)

Searching all data types

Command	Speed
cat test.txt | ds -t	00h:02m:04s
ds -t -f test.txt	00h:02m:05s
cat test.txt | ds -t -o output.txt	00h:02m:06s

Using specific queries

Command	Speed	Query Count
cat test.txt | ds -t -6	00h:00m:12s	1
cat test.txt | ds -t -i -m	00h:00m:22	2
cat test.txt | ds -tF6c	00h:00m:32s	3

Reporting Issues

When filling out a new issue please answer ALL questions on the bug template. Issues with not enough information will be closed.

Project Goals

• JSON output
• Untar/unzip and a directorty searching mode
• Base64 Detection and decoding