pymeta

Pymeta is a Python3 rewrite of the tool PowerMeta, created by dafthack in PowerShell. It uses specially crafted search queries to identify and download the following file types (pdf, xls, xlsx, csv, doc, docx, ppt, pptx) from a given domain using Google and Bing scraping. Once downloaded, metadata is extracted from these files using Phil Harvey's exiftool and added to a .csv report. Metadata is a common place for penetration testers to find internal domain names, usernames, software/version numbers, and help identify an organization's naming convention.

Pymeta can also be pointed at a directory to extract metadata from files manually downloaded using the -dir command line argument. See the Usage, or All Options section for more information.

Getting Started

PyMeta was created for and tested on Debian based Linux distributions, such as Kali Linux or Ubuntu. However, it may be applicable to other platforms. Perl is required for metadata extraction via the included exiftool binary.

Install:

git clone https://github.com/m8r0wn/pymeta
cd pymeta
python3 setup.py install

Usage

• Search Google and Bing for files within example.com and extract metadata to a csv report:
  pymeta -d example.com

• Extract metadata from files within the given directory and create csv report:
  pymeta -dir Downloads/

All Options

Target Options:
  -d DOMAIN             Target domain
  -dir FILE_DIR         Pre-existing directory of files

Search Options:
  -s {google,bing,all}  Search engine(s) to scrape (Default: all)
  -m MAX_RESULTS        Max results per file type, per search engine (Default: 50)
  -j JITTER             Seconds between search requests (Default: 2)

Output Options:
  -o OUTPUT_DIR         Path to store PyMeta's download folder (Default: ./)
  -f FILENAME           Custom report path/name.csv (Optional)
  --debug               Show links as they are collected during scraping

Credit

• Beau Bullock (@dafthack) - https://github.com/dafthack/PowerMeta
• Phil Harvey - https://exiftool.org/