Hello, friends. In this post, you will learn how to install SpiderFoot on Debian 10.
According to the project website:
SpiderFoot is an open source intelligence (OSINT) automation tool. It integrates with just about every data source available and utilises a range of methods for data analysis, making that data easy to navigate.
SpiderFoot has an embedded web-server for providing a clean and intuitive web-based interface but can also be used completely via the command line. It’s written in Python 3 and GPL-licensed.
So it is an interesting tool if we have servers with various services on the network.
Install Spiderfoot on Debian 10
The installation process is quite simple and we will do it from a terminal environment.
First, update the system completely
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade
After that, you have to install some packages needed to run SpiderFoot
sudo apt install python3 python3-pip python3-setuptools Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done python3 is already the newest version (3.7.3-1). python3 set to manually installed. The following additional packages will be installed: python-pip-whl python3-distutils python3-lib2to3 Recommended packages: build-essential python3-dev python3-setuptools python3-wheel The following NEW packages will be installed: python-pip-whl python3-distutils python3-lib2to3 python3-pip 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded. Need to get 1,980 kB of archives. After this operation, 3,772 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Then, you need to upgrade PIP so that it can work properly
pip3 install --upgrade pip
Now we can download the SpiderFoot package with the help of the wget command.
wget https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/archive/v3.3.tar.gz --2021-04-01 00:02:11-- https://github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/archive/v3.3.tar.gz Resolving github.com (github.com)... 140.82.121.3 Connecting to github.com (github.com)|140.82.121.3|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found Location: https://codeload.github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/tar.gz/v3.3 [following] --2021-04-01 00:02:11-- https://codeload.github.com/smicallef/spiderfoot/tar.gz/v3.3 Resolving codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)... 140.82.121.9 Connecting to codeload.github.com (codeload.github.com)|140.82.121.9|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [application/x-gzip] Saving to: ‘v3.3.tar.gz’ v3.3.tar.gz [ <=> ] 3.17M 3.80MB/s in 0.8s 2021-04-01 00:02:13 (3.80 MB/s) - ‘v3.3.tar.gz’ saved [3324791]
Note: At the time of writing this post, the latest stable version is 3.3.
Decompress the archive with the tar command
tar -xvzf v3.3.tar.gz
Access the folder that has been generated:
cd spiderfoot-3.3
And with PIP, install with the following command:
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
After the process is completed, you can start the web interface with the following command:
python3 sf.py -l localhost:5001
To end the execution you can press CTRL + C keys.
Now, if SpiderFoot has been installed on a server, you can alter the command so that it can be accessed by any host
python3 sf.py -l 0.0.0.0.0:5001 2021-04-01 00:06:35,119 [INFO] Starting web server at 0.0.0.0:5001 ... 2021-04-01 00:06:35,142 [WARNING] ******************************************************************** Warning: passwd file contains no passwords. Authentication disabled. Please consider adding authentication to protect this instance! Refer to https://www.spiderfoot.net/documentation/#security. ******************************************************************** ************************************************************* Use SpiderFoot by starting your web browser of choice and browse to http://<IP of this host>:5001/ ************************************************************* 2021-04-01 00:06:35,185 [INFO] [01/Apr/2021:00:06:35] ENGINE Listening for SIGTERM. 2021-04-01 00:06:35,186 [INFO] [01/Apr/2021:00:06:35] ENGINE Listening for SIGHUP. 2021-04-01 00:06:35,186 [INFO] [01/Apr/2021:00:06:35] ENGINE Listening for SIGUSR1. 2021-04-01 00:06:35,186 [INFO] [01/Apr/2021:00:06:35] ENGINE Bus STARTING 2021-04-01 00:06:35,289 [INFO] [01/Apr/2021:00:06:35] ENGINE Serving on http://0.0.0.0:5001 2021-04-01 00:06:35,290 [INFO] [01/Apr/2021:00:06:35] ENGINE Bus STARTED
Now all you have to do is open a web browser and visit http://your-server:5001 and you will see the main screen.
So, you can use it
Conclusion
SpiderFoot is a professional application that allows us to scan our server. For how advanced it is, its use is quite simple and the installation is within the reach of anyone.
