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

[Robin Wood <dninja () gmail com>]

2009/6/30 Juan Kinunt <kinunt () gmail com>:
> 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.
>
> If the tool does not exist I'll try to code something.
>
> Thanks.

Webscarab can do this, find a page on the site then go to the
Extensions tab where you can specify a list of extensions. The spider
then goes off and checks the site and for all the pages it finds it
tries them with the extra extensions.

Robin

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