pyWhat : Identify Anything. Easily
What Is pyWhat :
Identify anything. pyWhat easily lets you identify emails, IP addresses, and more. Feed it a .pcap file or some text and it'll tell you what it is!
Imagine this: You come across some mysterious text 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 and you wonder what it is. What do you do?
Well, with what all you have to do is ask what "5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99" and what will tell you!
what‘s job is to identify what something is. Whether it be a file or text! Or even the hex of a file! What about text within files? that too! what is recursive, it will identify everything in text and more!
Features:
- Say you have a
.pcapfile from a network attack.Whatcan identify this and quickly find you:
- All hashes
- Credit card numbers
- Cryptocurrency addresses
- Social Security Numbers
- and much more.
- With
what, you can identify the important things in the pcap in seconds, not minutes.
- File Opening You can pass in a file path by
what 'this/is/a/file/path'.Whatis smart enough to figure out it’s a file!
- What about a whole directory?
Whatcan handle that too! It will recursively search for files and output everything you need! - Sorting You can sort the output by using
what -k rarity --reverse TEXT. Usewhat --helpto get more information.
