CorpWatch Company ID Information Search - Metasploit
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Module Overview
Name: CorpWatch Company ID Information Search
Module: auxiliary/gather/corpwatch_lookup_id
Source code: modules/auxiliary/gather/corpwatch_lookup_id.rb
Disclosure date: -
Last modification time: 2019-03-05 04:43:03 +0000
Supported architecture(s): -
Supported platform(s): -
Target service / protocol: http, https
Target network port(s): 80, 443, 3000, 8000, 8008, 8080, 8443, 8880, 8888
List of CVEs: -
This module interfaces with the CorpWatch API to get publicly available info for a given CorpWatch ID of the company. If you don't know the CorpWatch ID, please use the corpwatch_lookup_name module first.
Module Ranking and Traits
Module Ranking:
- normal: The exploit is otherwise reliable, but depends on a specific version and can't (or doesn't) reliably autodetect. More information about ranking can be found here.
Basic Usage
msf > use auxiliary/gather/corpwatch_lookup_id
msf auxiliary(corpwatch_lookup_id) > show targets
... a list of targets ...
msf auxiliary(corpwatch_lookup_id) > set TARGET target-id
msf auxiliary(corpwatch_lookup_id) > show options
... show and set options ...
msf auxiliary(corpwatch_lookup_id) > exploit
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Msfconsole Usage
Here is how the gather/corpwatch_lookup_id auxiliary module looks in the msfconsole:
msf6 > use auxiliary/gather/corpwatch_lookup_id
msf6 auxiliary(gather/corpwatch_lookup_id) > show info
Name: CorpWatch Company ID Information Search
Module: auxiliary/gather/corpwatch_lookup_id
License: Metasploit Framework License (BSD)
Rank: Normal
Provided by:
Brandon Perry <[email protected]>
Check supported:
No
Basic options:
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
CHILD_LIMIT 5 no Set limit to how many children we can get
CW_ID yes The CorpWatch ID of the company
GET_CHILDREN true no Get children companies
GET_FILINGS false no Get all filings
GET_HISTORY false no Get company history
GET_LOCATIONS true no Get locations for company
GET_NAMES true no Get all registered names ofr the company
YEAR 2020 no Year to look up
Description:
This module interfaces with the CorpWatch API to get publicly
available info for a given CorpWatch ID of the company. If you don't
know the CorpWatch ID, please use the corpwatch_lookup_name module
first.
References:
http://api.corpwatch.org/
Module Options
This is a complete list of options available in the gather/corpwatch_lookup_id auxiliary module:
msf6 auxiliary(gather/corpwatch_lookup_id) > show options
Module options (auxiliary/gather/corpwatch_lookup_id):
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
CHILD_LIMIT 5 no Set limit to how many children we can get
CW_ID yes The CorpWatch ID of the company
GET_CHILDREN true no Get children companies
GET_FILINGS false no Get all filings
GET_HISTORY false no Get company history
GET_LOCATIONS true no Get locations for company
GET_NAMES true no Get all registered names ofr the company
YEAR 2020 no Year to look up
Advanced Options
Here is a complete list of advanced options supported by the gather/corpwatch_lookup_id auxiliary module:
msf6 auxiliary(gather/corpwatch_lookup_id) > show advanced
Module advanced options (auxiliary/gather/corpwatch_lookup_id):
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
DOMAIN WORKSTATION yes The domain to use for Windows authentication
DigestAuthIIS true no Conform to IIS, should work for most servers. Only set to false for non-IIS servers
FingerprintCheck true no Conduct a pre-exploit fingerprint verification
HttpClientTimeout no HTTP connection and receive timeout
HttpPassword no The HTTP password to specify for authentication
HttpRawHeaders no Path to ERB-templatized raw headers to append to existing headers
HttpTrace false no Show the raw HTTP requests and responses
HttpTraceColors red/blu no HTTP request and response colors for HttpTrace (unset to disable)
HttpTraceHeadersOnly false no Show HTTP headers only in HttpTrace
HttpUsername no The HTTP username to specify for authentication
SSLVersion Auto yes Specify the version of SSL/TLS to be used (Auto, TLS and SSL23 are auto-negotiate) (Accepted: Auto, TLS, SSL23, SSL3, TLS1, TLS1.1, TLS1.2)
UserAgent Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) no The User-Agent header to use for all requests
VERBOSE false no Enable detailed status messages
WORKSPACE no Specify the workspace for this module
Auxiliary Actions
This is a list of all auxiliary actions that the gather/corpwatch_lookup_id module can do:
msf6 auxiliary(gather/corpwatch_lookup_id) > show actions
Auxiliary actions:
Name Description
---- -----------
Evasion Options
Here is the full list of possible evasion options supported by the gather/corpwatch_lookup_id auxiliary module in order to evade defenses (e.g. Antivirus, EDR, Firewall, NIDS etc.):
msf6 auxiliary(gather/corpwatch_lookup_id) > show evasion
Module evasion options:
Name Current Setting Required Description
---- --------------- -------- -----------
HTTP::header_folding false no Enable folding of HTTP headers
HTTP::method_random_case false no Use random casing for the HTTP method
HTTP::method_random_invalid false no Use a random invalid, HTTP method for request
HTTP::method_random_valid false no Use a random, but valid, HTTP method for request
HTTP::pad_fake_headers false no Insert random, fake headers into the HTTP request
HTTP::pad_fake_headers_count 0 no How many fake headers to insert into the HTTP request
HTTP::pad_get_params false no Insert random, fake query string variables into the request
HTTP::pad_get_params_count 16 no How many fake query string variables to insert into the request
HTTP::pad_method_uri_count 1 no How many whitespace characters to use between the method and uri
HTTP::pad_method_uri_type space no What type of whitespace to use between the method and uri (Accepted: space, tab, apache)
HTTP::pad_post_params false no Insert random, fake post variables into the request
HTTP::pad_post_params_count 16 no How many fake post variables to insert into the request
HTTP::pad_uri_version_count 1 no How many whitespace characters to use between the uri and version
HTTP::pad_uri_version_type space no What type of whitespace to use between the uri and version (Accepted: space, tab, apache)
HTTP::uri_dir_fake_relative false no Insert fake relative directories into the uri
HTTP::uri_dir_self_reference false no Insert self-referential directories into the uri
HTTP::uri_encode_mode hex-normal no Enable URI encoding (Accepted: none, hex-normal, hex-noslashes, hex-random, hex-all, u-normal, u-all, u-random)
HTTP::uri_fake_end false no Add a fake end of URI (eg: /%20HTTP/1.0/../../)
HTTP::uri_fake_params_start false no Add a fake start of params to the URI (eg: /%3fa=b/../)
HTTP::uri_full_url false no Use the full URL for all HTTP requests
HTTP::uri_use_backslashes false no Use back slashes instead of forward slashes in the uri
HTTP::version_random_invalid false no Use a random invalid, HTTP version for request
HTTP::version_random_valid false no Use a random, but valid, HTTP version for request
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Error Messages
This module may fail with the following error messages:
- No response from server.
- Malformed XML or broken response
- No document root, no results returned
- No results returned
- No results returned
- No companies returned
- No results returned
- Server down or bad response
- Query returned bad or poorly formatted data.
- no results returned
- No results returned
- Server down or bad response
- Query returned bad or poorly formatted XML
- document root nil
- Returned no or broken results
- No results returned
- Server down or response broken
- Query return bad or broken data
- Results were either broken or not returned
- No results returned
- Results broken or not returned
- No filings found
- Server down or bad response
- Query return bad or broken data
- No results were returned.
- No results returned
- Server down or bad response
- Query return bad or broken data
- No results.
- No results returned.
Check for the possible causes from the code snippets below found in the module source code. This can often times help in identifying the root cause of the problem.
No response from server.
Here is a relevant code snippet related to the "No response from server." error message:
59: 'uri' => uri + ".xml",
60: 'method' => 'GET'
61: }, 25)
62:
63: if res == nil
64: print_error("No response from server.")
65: return
66: end
67:
68: begin
69: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
Malformed XML or broken response
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66: end
67:
68: begin
69: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
70: rescue
71: print_error("Malformed XML or broken response")
72: return
73: end
74:
75: root = doc.root
76:
No document root, no results returned
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73: end
74:
75: root = doc.root
76:
77: if doc.root == nil
78: print_error("No document root, no results returned")
79: return
80: end
81:
82: elements = root.get_elements("result")
83:
No results returned
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80: end
81:
82: elements = root.get_elements("result")
83:
84: if elements.blank? || elements.length == 0
85: print_error("No results returned")
86: return
87: end
88:
89: results = elements[0]
90:
No results returned
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87: end
88:
89: results = elements[0]
90:
91: if results == nil
92: print_error("No results returned")
93: return
94: end
95:
96: elements = results.get_elements("companies")
97:
No companies returned
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94: end
95:
96: elements = results.get_elements("companies")
97:
98: if elements == nil || elements.length == 0
99: print_error("No companies returned")
100: return
101: end
102:
103: results = elements[0]
104:
No results returned
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101: end
102:
103: results = elements[0]
104:
105: if results == nil || results.elements == nil
106: print_error("No results returned")
107: return
108: end
109:
110: results.elements.each { |e|
111: loot << ("CorpWatchID: " + (cwid = grab_text(e, "cw_id")))
Server down or bad response
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158: 'uri' => uri + "/locations.xml",
159: 'method' => 'GET'
160: }, 25)
161:
162: if res == nil
163: print_error("Server down or bad response")
164: return
165: end
166:
167: begin
168: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
Query returned bad or poorly formatted data.
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165: end
166:
167: begin
168: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
169: rescue
170: print_error("Query returned bad or poorly formatted data.")
171: return
172: end
173:
174: root = doc.root
175:
no results returned
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174: root = doc.root
175:
176: elements = root.get_elements("result")
177:
178: if elements == nil || elements.length == 0
179: print_error("no results returned")
180: return
181: end
182:
183: results = elements[0]
184:
No results returned
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181: end
182:
183: results = elements[0]
184:
185: if results == nil
186: print_status("No results returned")
187: else
188: results = results.get_elements("locations")[0]
189:
190: results.elements.each { |e|
191: loot << ("CorpWatch ID: " + (cwid = grab_text(e, "cw_id")))
Server down or bad response
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230: 'uri' => uri + "/names.xml",
231: 'method' => 'GET'
232: }, 25)
233:
234: if res == nil
235: print_error("Server down or bad response")
236: return
237: end
238:
239: begin
240: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
Query returned bad or poorly formatted XML
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237: end
238:
239: begin
240: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
241: rescue
242: print_error("Query returned bad or poorly formatted XML")
243: return
244: end
245:
246: root = doc.root
247:
document root nil
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244: end
245:
246: root = doc.root
247:
248: if root == nil
249: print_error("document root nil")
250: return
251: end
252:
253: elements = root.get_elements("result")
254:
Returned no or broken results
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251: end
252:
253: elements = root.get_elements("result")
254:
255: if elements == nil || elements.length == 0
256: print_error("Returned no or broken results")
257: return
258: end
259:
260: results = elements[0]
261:
No results returned
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258: end
259:
260: results = elements[0]
261:
262: if results == nil
263: print_status("No results returned")
264: else
265: results = results.get_elements("names")[0]
266:
267: results.elements.each { |e|
268: loot << ("Name: " + (name = grab_text(e, "company_name")))
Server down or response broken
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292: 'uri' => uri + "/filings.xml",
293: 'method' => 'GET'
294: }, 25)
295:
296: if res == nil
297: print_error("Server down or response broken")
298: return
299: end
300:
301: begin
302: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
Query return bad or broken data
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299: end
300:
301: begin
302: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
303: rescue
304: print_error("Query return bad or broken data")
305: return
306: end
307:
308: root = doc.root
309:
Results were either broken or not returned
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308: root = doc.root
309:
310: elements = root.get_elements("result")
311:
312: if elements == nil || elements.length == 0
313: print_error("Results were either broken or not returned")
314: return
315: end
316:
317: results = elements[0]
318:
No results returned
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315: end
316:
317: results = elements[0]
318:
319: if results == nil
320: print_status("No results returned")
321: else
322: elements = results.get_elements("filings")
323:
324: if elements == nil
325: print_error("Results broken or not returned")
Results broken or not returned
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320: print_status("No results returned")
321: else
322: elements = results.get_elements("filings")
323:
324: if elements == nil
325: print_error("Results broken or not returned")
326: return
327: end
328:
329: results = elements[0]
330:
No filings found
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327: end
328:
329: results = elements[0]
330:
331: if results == nil
332: print_status("No filings found")
333: else
334: results.elements.each { |e|
335: loot << ("Central Index Key: " + (cik = grab_text(e, "cik")))
336: loot << ("\nYear filed: " + (year_filed = grab_text(e, "year")))
337: loot << ("\nQuarter filed: " + (quarter_filed = grab_text(e, "quarter")))
Server down or bad response
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372: 'uri' => child_uri,
373: 'method' => 'GET'
374: }, 25)
375:
376: if res == nil
377: print_error("Server down or bad response")
378: return
379: end
380:
381: begin
382: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
Query return bad or broken data
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379: end
380:
381: begin
382: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
383: rescue
384: print_error("Query return bad or broken data")
385: return
386: end
387:
388: root = doc.root
389:
No results were returned.
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390: elements = root.get_elements("result")
391:
392: results = elements[0]
393:
394: if results == nil
395: print_status("No results were returned.")
396: else
397: results = results.get_elements("companies")[0]
398:
399: if results == nil
400: print_status("No results returned")
No results returned
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395: print_status("No results were returned.")
396: else
397: results = results.get_elements("companies")[0]
398:
399: if results == nil
400: print_status("No results returned")
401: else
402: results.elements.each { |e|
403: loot << ("CorpWatch ID: " + (cwid = grab_text(e, "cw_id")))
404: loot << ("\nCentral Index Key: " + (cik = grab_text(e, "cik")))
405: loot << ("\nCompany Name: " + (name = grab_text(e, "company_name")))
Server down or bad response
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453: 'uri' => uri + "/history.xml",
454: 'method' => 'GET'
455: }, 25)
456:
457: if res == nil
458: print_error("Server down or bad response")
459: return
460: end
461:
462: begin
463: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
Query return bad or broken data
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460: end
461:
462: begin
463: doc = REXML::Document.new(res.body)
464: rescue
465: print_error("Query return bad or broken data")
466: return
467: end
468:
469: root = doc.root
470:
No results.
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469: root = doc.root
470:
471: elements = root.get_elements("result")
472:
473: if elements == nil || elements.length == 0
474: print_error("No results.")
475: return
476: end
477:
478: results = elements[0]
479:
No results returned.
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476: end
477:
478: results = elements[0]
479:
480: if results == nil
481: print_status("No results returned.")
482: else
483: results = results.get_elements("companies")[0]
484:
485: results.elements.each { |e|
486: loot << ("CorpWatch ID: " + (cwid = grab_text(e, "cw_id")))
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Related Pull Requests
- #11535 Merged Pull Request: add deregister_http_client_options
- #8716 Merged Pull Request: Print_Status -> Print_Good (And OCD bits 'n bobs)
- #8338 Merged Pull Request: Fix msf/core and self.class msftidy warnings
- #6655 Merged Pull Request: use MetasploitModule as a class name
- #6648 Merged Pull Request: Change metasploit class names
- #3235 Merged Pull Request: First little bit at Bug 8498
- #2525 Merged Pull Request: Change module boilerplate
- #2266 Merged Pull Request: Validate datastore option "YEAR"
- #452 Merged Pull Request: Whitespace cleanup
References
See Also
Check also the following modules related to this module:
- auxiliary/gather/corpwatch_lookup_name
- auxiliary/scanner/msmail/host_id
- auxiliary/admin/mssql/mssql_idf
- auxiliary/scanner/http/dell_idrac
- auxiliary/scanner/http/wp_chopslider_id_sqli
- auxiliary/scanner/ssh/ssh_identify_pubkeys
- exploit/linux/ids/alienvault_centerd_soap_exec
- exploit/linux/ids/snortbopre
- exploit/linux/local/nested_namespace_idmap_limit_priv_esc
- exploit/multi/ids/snort_dce_rpc
- exploit/windows/browser/autodesk_idrop
- exploit/windows/browser/ms12_037_same_id
- exploit/windows/fileformat/ideal_migration_ipj
- exploit/windows/iis/ms01_033_idq
- exploit/windows/misc/tiny_identd_overflow
- post/hardware/automotive/identifymodules
- post/windows/gather/credentials/idm
- auxiliary/gather/cloud_lookup
- auxiliary/gather/android_browser_file_theft
- auxiliary/gather/android_browser_new_tab_cookie_theft
- auxiliary/gather/android_htmlfileprovider
- auxiliary/gather/android_object_tag_webview_uxss
- auxiliary/gather/android_stock_browser_uxss
- auxiliary/gather/billquick_txtid_sqli
- auxiliary/gather/drupal_openid_xxe
- auxiliary/gather/zabbix_toggleids_sqli
- auxiliary/scanner/http/httpbl_lookup
- auxiliary/scanner/smb/smb_lookupsid
- exploit/linux/http/netgear_dnslookup_cmd_exec
- post/multi/gather/dns_reverse_lookup
- post/multi/gather/dns_srv_lookup
- post/multi/recon/reverse_lookup
- post/windows/gather/reverse_lookup
Authors
- Brandon Perry <bperry.volatile[at]gmail.com>
Version
This page has been produced using Metasploit Framework version 6.2.29-dev. For more modules, visit the Metasploit Module Library.
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