README.md

pastebin_scraper

Automated tool to monitor pastebin for interesting information

Originally created by Jordan Wright

Modified by Moez Janmohammad @wedemmoez

For more overview, check out the blog post here.

This tool was heavily influenced by dumpmon. Since that bot is no longer active (as of October 7, 2018), Critical Start - Section 8 has set up our own to continue to monitor Pastebin for data leaks and dumps. In modifying dumpmon, we've also made changes and added features, lsited below.

Changes made

• updated tool to use Python3 since Python2 will be deprecated in 2020
  • changing print statements
  • updated modified Queue library
  • added line to init.py to allow fix relative imports.
• removed slexy/pastie sites because they are no longer active
• removed all twitter componenents, this is not a feature we needed or will use
  • changed references to 'tweet' since we aren't tweeting
• changed logging
  • logs when interesting pastes are found, and what type
  • logs to both stdout and output.log files
• now uses Pastebin API instead of /archive page
  • now our IP won't be blacklisted
  • REQUIRES PASTEBIN PRO ACCOUNT
• removed redundant code in lib/Site.py and lib/(paste sites).py
• changed mongodb to MySQL

Setting up MySQL support

1. Eet up a MySQL database with whatever name you want, add a user with write permissions for that db for the bot.

2. Use this command to create the table with the correct attributes:

   create table pastes (pid char(10), text longblob, emails longblob, hashes longblob, num_emails int, num_hashes int, type char(10), db_keywords float, url char(50), author char(30));

This creates a table named pastes with the following attributes:

column name [data type] PID [char(10)] text [longblob] emails [longblob] hashes [longblob] num_emails [int] num_hashes [int] type [char(10)] db_keywords [float] URL [varchar(50)] Author [char(30)]

1. Update settings.py with the proper attributes pastebin_scraper can save pastes using MySQL.

    USE_DB = True
   
    DB_HOST = 'localhost' (or whatever the server IP is)
   
    DB_PORT = 3306
   
    DB_USER = 'pastebin_scraper' (generate your own user/pass)
    
    DB_PASS = 'botpassword'
   
    DB_DB = 'paste_db'
   

If you do not want to save pastes, set USE_DB to False

Executing pastebin_scraper

    python pastebin_scraper.py

Disclaimer

This script was developed for educational purposes only. Critical Start is not responsible for any malicious use of the data collected by it. Moral of the story... don't do anything dumb.

TO DO

• split emails and associated passwords up and save separately
• create script to automate database and table creation
• search for other hash types
• some type of statistics tracking or daily email?