SpiderFoot is an open-source vulnerability tool for threat intelligence, asset discovery, attack surface monitoring, or security assessments. SpiderFoot comes in two flavors: The open-source version and SpiderFoot HX for professionals looking for lot more features that are not available in the open-source version. With the open-source version, most of the modules from SpiderFoot HX are available, but the ability to navigate, visualize, monitor, and investigate is not available. You’ll be able to export the data from SpiderFoot in CSV, JSON, or GEXF and work with the data in other tools. For more about SpiderFoot, visit its homepage. To get started with installing SpiderFoot on Ubuntu, follow the steps below:
Install Python
SpiderFoot is written in Python and is required to be installed on the host machine. To get Python on Ubuntu, run the commands below: After the above packages are installed, go and download the SpiderFoot package.
Install SpiderFoot
Run the commands below to download SpiderFoot version 3.3 from GitHub. This will download in your home directory. Once downloaded, run the commands below to extract the downloaded archived. The next commands change into the extracted folder and install all requirements to run SpiderFoot. After running the commands above, SpiderFoot should be installed and ready to use. SpiderFoot is shipped with a help file that contains options that can be used with the command. To invoke the help file, run the commands below: The output of the help command option. SpiderFoot also has a web interface. Run the commands below and initial the web UI. The output of the commands above: Now open your browser and browse to the server hostname or IP address followed by port 5001. http://localhost:5001 By default, SpiderFoot can be accessed without authentication. If you wish to include a username and password, you run the commands below to add your username and password to the password file. That should allow you to authenticate with the username admin and password you type above. That should do it! Conclusion: This post showed you how to install SpiderFoot’s open-source version on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04. If you find any error above, please use the comment form below to report.
