CeWL v5.1 – Password Cracking Custom Word List Generator

CeWL is a Custom Word List generator which spiders a given site to create a word list of all words it finds on that site. It can also grab email addresses and usernames found in the HTML and in some document types including Office and PDF.

Useful for targeted penetration testing which involves brute force password cracking.

We first wrote about CeWL way back in 2009 not long after it first came out – it’s been updated plenty since then and is now at version 5.1.

There are also a bunch of other similar tools out there (some older some newer):

– Crunch – Password Cracking Wordlist Generator
– The Associative Word List Generator (AWLG) – Create Related Wordlists
– Wyd – Automated Password Profiling Tool
– CUPP – Common User Passwords Profiler – Automated Password Profiling Tool
– RSMangler – Keyword Based Wordlist Generator For Bruteforcing

If you combine the wordlists from the above tools with the commonly found standard password cracking wordlists, you should have a pretty comprehensive, targeted set of lists for bruteforcing with something like John the Ripper, thc-hydra or hashcat.

Usage

cewl [OPTION] ... URL

--help, -h
    Show help
--depth x, -d x
    The depth to spider to, default 2
--min_word_length, -m
    The minimum word length, this strips out all words under the specified length, default 3
--offsite, -o
    By default, the spider will only visit the site specified. With this option it will also visit external sites
--write, -w file
    Write the ouput to the file rather than to stdout
--ua, -u user-agent
    Change the user agent
-v
    Verbose, show debug and extra output
--no-words, -n
    Don't output the wordlist
--meta, -a file
    Include meta data, optional output file
--email, -e file
    Include email addresses, optional output file
--meta_file file
    Filename for metadata output
--email_file file
    Filename for email output
--meta-temp-dir directory
    The directory used used by exiftool when parsing files, the default is /tmp
--count, -c:
    Show the count for each of the words found
--auth_type
    Digest or basic
--auth_user
    Authentication username
--auth_pass
    Authentication password
--proxy_host
    Proxy host
--proxy_port
    Proxy port, default 8080
--proxy_username
    Username for proxy, if required
--proxy_password
    Password for proxy, if required
--verbose, -v
    Verbose
URL
    The site to spider.

You can download CeWL v5.1 here:

cewl_5.1.tar.bz2

Or read more here.

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