by Time is a valuable thing in penetration testers life.So every pen-tester must know how to automate certain things that will allow him to have time for others most important.Updating the ExploitDB it is a necessary task so we will use a small bash script that will allow us to perform the update in Backtrack automatically.
The function of the above script is pretty simple.It will download the latest archive from the exploit-db website and it will extract it in the /pentest/exploits/exploitdb folder and then it will delete the archive file.
You can see the usage of the script in the screenshot below:
This is a simple script that will allow you with one command to update your ExploitDB.
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Spooky, I wrote a similar script a week ago, the only difference is that I set the +x attrib back on the files.csv file. Not sure if it’s needed or not but.. This is my code
#!/bin/bash
echo “Downloading latest exploit-db archive file”
wget http://www.exploit-db.com/archive.tar.bz2 -O /tmp/archive.tar.bz2
echo “File successfully downloaded”
echo “Decompressing archive file to /pentest/exploits/exploitdb/”
tar -xvjf /tmp/archive.tar.bz2 -C /pentest/exploits/exploitdb/
echo “Decompression complete, reseting executable properties for files.csv”
chmod +x /pentest/exploits/exploitdb/files.csv
echo “Tidying up downloaded file”
rm /tmp/archive.tar.bz2
echo “Update complete.”
#!/bin/bash
clear
echo ‘***’
echo ‘***’ “Now Updating Exploit-DB.”
echo ‘***’
wget -U ‘Mozilla/5.0’ http://www.exploit-db.com/archive.tar.bz2 -O /tmp/archive.tar.bz2
tar -xjf /tmp/archive.tar.bz2 -C /pentest/exploits/exploitdb/
rm -f /tmp/archive.tar.bz2
echo ‘***’
echo ‘***’ “Exploit-DB Update Has Completed.”
echo ‘***’
Reblogged this on lava kafle kathmandu nepal.
What updates the “files.csv” file?
You know, the one on which searchsploit depends?
#!/bin/bash
## The simple way to update exploitdb (and save you some bandwidth) is to do the following
cd /pentest/exploits/exploitdb/
svn update
# feel free to through in as many echo “some information” as you feel is needed.