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PassDetective

PassDetective by aydinnyunus, is a command-line tool designed to scan your shell command history for potential security risks by identifying mistakenly written passwords, API keys, and secrets. The tool utilizes regular expressions to detect sensitive information within the command history, helping users avoid accidental exposure of confidential data.

Installation

go install github.com/aydinnyunus/PassDetective@latest

Kali Linux

sudo apt install PassDetective

Features

Scans shell command history to detect mistakenly written passwords
Identifies API keys and secrets using regular expressions
Provides a secure way to review your command history and prevent accidental exposure of sensitive information

Usage

Extract Shell History

After you have install requirements , you can simply analyze the image via:

$ PassDetective extract -all

Extract Secrets

If you want to specify directory use this command:

$ PassDetective extract –secrets –zsh

Regular Expressions

PassDetective uses the following regular expressions to identify potential sensitive information:

“Cloudinary” : “cloudinary://.*”,
“Firebase URL”: “.*firebaseio.com”,
“Slack Token”: “(xox[p|b|o|a]-[0-9]{12}-[0-9]{12}-[0-9]{12}-[a-z0-9]{32})”,
“RSA private key”: “—–BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY—–“,
“SSH (DSA) private key”: “—–BEGIN DSA PRIVATE KEY—–“,
“SSH (EC) private key”: “—–BEGIN EC PRIVATE KEY—–“,
“PGP private key block”: “—–BEGIN PGP PRIVATE KEY BLOCK—–“,
“Amazon AWS Access Key ID”: “AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}”,
“Amazon MWS Auth Token”: “amzn\.mws\.[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}”,
“AWS API Key”: “AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}”,
“Facebook Access Token”: “EAACEdEose0cBA[0-9A-Za-z]+”,
“Facebook OAuth”: “[f|F][a|A][c|C][e|E][b|B][o|O][o|O][k|K].*[‘|”][0-9a-f]{32}[‘|”]”,
“GitHub”: “[g|G][i|I][t|T][h|H][u|U][b|B].*[‘|”][0-9a-zA-Z]{35,40}[‘|”]”,
“Generic API Key”: “[a|A][p|P][i|I][_]?[k|K][e|E][y|Y].*[‘|”][0-9a-zA-Z]{32,45}[‘|”]”,
“Generic Secret”: “[s|S][e|E][c|C][r|R][e|E][t|T].*[‘|”][0-9a-zA-Z]{32,45}[‘|”]”,
“Google API Key”: “AIza[0-9A-Za-z\-_]{35}”,
“Google Cloud Platform API Key”: “AIza[0-9A-Za-z\-_]{35}”,
“Google Cloud Platform OAuth”: “[0-9]+-[0-9A-Za-z_]{32}\.apps\.googleusercontent\.com”,
“Google Drive API Key”: “AIza[0-9A-Za-z\-_]{35}”,
“Google Drive OAuth”: “[0-9]+-[0-9A-Za-z_]{32}\.apps\.googleusercontent\.com”,
“Google (GCP) Service-account”: “”type”: “service_account””,
“Google Gmail API Key”: “AIza[0-9A-Za-z\-_]{35}”,
“Google Gmail OAuth”: “[0-9]+-[0-9A-Za-z_]{32}\.apps\.googleusercontent\.com”,
“Google OAuth Access Token”: “ya29\.[0-9A-Za-z\-_]+”,
“Google YouTube API Key”: “AIza[0-9A-Za-z\-_]{35}”,
“Google YouTube OAuth”: “[0-9]+-[0-9A-Za-z_]{32}\.apps\.googleusercontent\.com”,
“Heroku API Key”: “[h|H][e|E][r|R][o|O][k|K][u|U].*[0-9A-F]{8}-[0-9A-F]{4}-[0-9A-F]{4}-[0-9A-F]{4}-[0-9A-F]{12}”,
“MailChimp API Key”: “[0-9a-f]{32}-us[0-9]{1,2}”,
“Mailgun API Key”: “key-[0-9a-zA-Z]{32}”,
“Password in URL”: “[a-zA-Z]{3,10}://[^/\s:@]{3,20}:[^/\s:@]{3,20}@.{1,100}[“‘\s]”,
“PayPal Braintree Access Token”: “access_token\$production\$[0-9a-z]{16}\$[0-9a-f]{32}”,
“Picatic API Key”: “sk_live_[0-9a-z]{32}”,
“Slack Webhook”: “https://hooks.slack.com/services/T[a-zA-Z0-9_]{8}/B[a-zA-Z0-9_]{8}/[a-zA-Z0-9_]{24}”,
“Stripe API Key”: “sk_live_[0-9a-zA-Z]{24}”,
“Stripe Restricted API Key”: “rk_live_[0-9a-zA-Z]{24}”,
“Square Access Token”: “sq0atp-[0-9A-Za-z\-_]{22}”,
“Square OAuth Secret”: “sq0csp-[0-9A-Za-z\-_]{43}”,
“Twilio API Key”: “SK[0-9a-fA-F]{32}”,
“Twitter Access Token”: “[t|T][w|W][i|I][t|T][t|T][e|E][r|R].*[1-9][0-9]+-[0-9a-zA-Z]{40}”,
“Twitter OAuth”: “[t|T][w|W][i|I][t|T][t|T][e|E][r|R].*[‘|”][0-9a-zA-Z]{35,44}[‘|”]”

Source : https://github.com/h33tlit/secret-regex-list

Clone the repo from here: GitHub Link