masc 0.2.2

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Features

• Scan any website for malware using OWASP WebMalwareScanner checksum and YARA rules databases

• Perform some cleaning operations to improve website protection

• Monitor the website for changes. Details are written in a log file

• Custom website support

• Scan your site to know if it has been infected with some malware

• List your local backups

• Logging support

• Backup your site

• Restore website

• WordPress support

• Scan your site to know if it has been infected with some malware

• Scan for suspect files and compare with a clean installation

• Clean up your site to avoid giving extra information to attackers

• Backup your site (to recover later if you need)

• List your local backups

• Logging support

• Restore website

Requirements

First of all, notice that this tool is developed under Linux and, at the moment, it has been tested only under this Operating System

• Python >= 3

• Some Python libraries

• python-magic

• yara-python

• watchdog

• termcolor

• pypandoc

  santi@zenbook:$ pip3 install python-magic yara-python watchdog termcolor pypandoc

santi@zenbook:$ brew install libmagic

Installation

To install masc on your computer, you can download a release, untar it and try. You can also install it usign pip (‘pip3 install masc’)

Usage

masc 0.1 (http://github.com/sfaci/masc)
usage: masc.py [-h] [--add-file FILENAME] [--add-word STRING] [--clean-cache]
               [--clean-site] [--list-backups] [--list-logs] [--make-backup]
               [--monitor] [--name NAME] [--rollback] [--scan PATH]
               [--site-type {wordpress,drupal,custom}]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --add-file FILENAME   Add a suspect file to the dictionary
  --add-word STRING     Add a suspect content to the dictionary
  --clean-cache         Clean masc cache (cache and logs files, NO backups)
  --clean-site          Clean up the site to hide information to attackers
  --list-backups        List local backups
  --make-backup         Create a local backup of the current installation
  --monitor             Monitor site to detect changes
  --name NAME           Name assigned to the scanned installation
  --rollback            Restore a local backup
  --scan PATH           Scan an installation at the given PATH
  --site-type {wordpress,drupal,custom}
                        which type of web you want to scan:: wordpress,
                        joomla, drupal or magento

Test

There is a repository in the Docker Hub to perform tests masc-wordpress

Documentation

You can find a complete tutorial about how to use masc in the wiki

Thanks

Thanks to OWASP WebMalwareScanner for some ideas and the signatures databases with checksums and YARA rules (and how to load it to work with).

Author

Santiago Faci santiago.faci@gmail.com