Penetration Testing: Re: Scanner for old files (.bak, ~, .old, etc.)

[rajat swarup <rajats () gmail com>]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Juan Kinunt<kinunt () gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if anyone knows a tool that first spiders the web
> in order to enumerate al files and scripts it detects and then look
> for this same files but with another extension. For example, first
> spiders the web and enumerate:
>
> index.php
> news.php
> cart.php
>
> And then looks for index.php.bak, index.php.inc, index.php~,
> index.bak, index.old, etc.
>
> This tool will be useful supossing that programmers tend to change the
> extension of the file to store old files.
>
> I know Nikto, Wikto, etc... but this tools look for predefined files
> and I would like to target already existing files but with different
> extension.
Paros would for .bak, .old, *~ files, etc.  Of course, it'll only scan
the URLs you ask it to scan.  It won't spider the entire web (it's not
a crawler ... Google would help you with that).
-- 
Rajat Swarup

http://rajatswarup.blogspot.com/

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