Awesome Censys Queries

A collection of fascinating and bizarre Censys Search queries.

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Resources

• Censys Search
• CensysGPT Beta - AI Generated Queries

Key

• 🔎 → - This icon will take you to the Censys Search results page for the query.

Table of Contents

• Industrial Control Systems
• Internet of Things Devices
• Security Applications
• Databases
• Dashboards
• Game Servers
• Media Servers
• Random Services
• Advanced Queries

• Credits
• License
• Star History

Industrial Control Systems

Industrial Control System Protocols 🔎 →

services.service_name: {BACNET, CODESYS, EIP, FINS, FOX, IEC60870_5_104, S7, MODBUS}

Prismview (Samsung Electronic Billboards) 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "Prismview" or services.http.response.headers.server: "Prismview Player"

Screenshot

Gas Station Pump Controllers (ATGs) 🔎 →

(same_service(port: 10001 and banner: "IN-TANK INVENTORY") or services.service_name: ATG) and services.truncated: false

Pro-Tip: Add services.truncated: false to your query to exclude honeypots (Hosts with 100+ services).

Screenshot

Electric Vehicle Chargers 🔎 →

same_service(http.response.headers.server: "gSOAP/2.8" and http.response.headers.content_length: 583)

Carel PlantVisor 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "CAREL Pl@ntVisor"

References

• https://www.carel.com/product/plantvisor

C4 Max Vehicle GPS 🔎 →

services.banner: "[1m[35mWelcome on console"

References

• https://wiki.neweagle.net/ProductDocumentation/Telematics/C4MAX_datasheet.pdf

GaugeTech Electricity Meters 🔎 →

services.http.response.headers.server: "EIG Embedded Web Server"

Screenshot

XZERES Wind Turbines 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "XZERES Wind"

Note: This query works best with virtual hosts included.

Screenshot

Nordex Wind Turbine Farms 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Nordex Control" or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.domain_component: "NORDEX-AG"

References

• https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-alerts/ics-alert-10-307-01

Saferoads VMS Signs 🔎 →

services.software: (vendor: "Saferoads" and product: "VMS")

References

• https://www.saferoads.com.au/zone-vms

Internet of Things Devices

Roombas 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.common_name: "Roomba CA"

Mein Automowers 🔎 →

services.http.response.headers.Www_Authenticate: `Basic realm= "Mein Automower (Robonect Hx+)"`

WinAQMS Environmental Monitor 🔎 →

services.banner: "WinAQMS Data Server" and services.truncated: false

Emerson Site Supervisor 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Emerson Site Supervisor"

Screenshot

References

• https://www.emerson.com/en-us/site-supervisor-5385648A

Brightsign Digital Sign 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "'BrightSign®"

Elnet Power Meters 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.headers.Server="CAL1.0" and services.http.response.status_code: 200)

Screenshot

References

• http://www.elnet.cc/

Nethix Wireless Controller 🔎 →

services.http.response.headers.set_cookie: "NethixSession"

References

• https://nethix.com/en/

Compromised Mikrotik Router 🔎 →

services.service_name: MIKROTIK_BW and services.pptp.hostname: "HACKED"

References

• https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/over-300000-mikrotik-devices-found.html

Security Applications

Cobalt Strike Servers 🔎 →

services.certificate: {
    "64257fc0fac31c01a5ccd816c73ea86e639260da1604d04db869bb603c2886e6",
    "87f2085c32b6a2cc709b365f55873e207a9caa10bffecf2fd16d3cf9d94d390c"
}
or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.common_name: "Major Cobalt Strike"
or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "Major Cobalt Strike"

Metasploit Servers 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Metasploit" and (
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization: "Rapid7"
    or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "MetasploitSelfSignedCA"
)
or services.jarm.fingerprint: {
    "07d14d16d21d21d00042d43d000000aa99ce74e2c6d013c745aa52b5cc042d",
    "07d14d16d21d21d07c42d43d000000f50d155305214cf247147c43c0f1a823"
}

Nessus Scanner Servers 🔎 →

services.http.response.headers.server: "NessusWWW"
or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organizational_unit: "Nessus Server"

NTOP Network Analyzers 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Welcome to ntopng"
or same_service(
    services.http.response.html_title: "Global Traffic Statistics"
    and services.http.response.headers.server: "ntop/*"
)

Merlin C2 🔎 →

services.jarm.fingerprint: "29d21b20d29d29d21c41d21b21b41d494e0df9532e75299f15ba73156cee38"

References

• https://github.com/Ne0nd0g/merlin

Mythic C2 🔎 →

same_service(port: 7443 and tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization: "Mythic")

Note: When using the same_service operator, the initial services. prefix is optional.

References

• https://github.com/its-a-feature/Mythic
• https://michaelkoczwara.medium.com/hunting-c2-with-shodan-223ca250d06f

Deimos C2 🔎 →

services.jarm.fingerprint: "00000000000000000041d00000041d9535d5979f591ae8e547c5e5743e5b64"

References

• https://github.com/DeimosC2/DeimosC2

Covenant C2 🔎 →

same_service(
    http.response.body: {"Blazor", "covenant.css"}
    and tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.common_name: "Covenant"
)

References

• https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant

PoshC2 🔎 →

same_service(
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name="P18055077" and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.province="Minnesota" and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.locality="Minnetonka" and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization="Pajfds" and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organizational_unit="Jethpro"
)

References

• https://github.com/nettitude/PoshC2

Sliver C2 🔎 →

same_service(
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.pubkey_bit_size: 2048 and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization: /(ACME|Partners|Tech|Cloud|Synergy|Test|Debug)? ?(co|llc|inc|corp|ltd)?/ and
    services.jarm.fingerprint: 3fd21b20d00000021c43d21b21b43d41226dd5dfc615dd4a96265559485910 and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.country: US and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.postal_code: /<1001-9999>/
)

Note: This search uses regex and requires a paid account.

Pro-Tip: Try removing JARM to find even more Sliver instances.

References

• https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver

EvilGinx2 🔎 →

services.jarm.fingerprint: "20d14d20d21d20d20c20d14d20d20daddf8a68a1444c74b6dbe09910a511e6"

References

• https://github.com/kgretzky/evilginx2

Brute Ratel C4 🔎 →

services.http.response.body_hash="sha1:1a279f5df4103743b823ec2a6a08436fdf63fe30"

References

• https://bruteratel.com

Empire C2 🔎 →

same_service(
    services.http.response.body_hash: {"sha1:bc517bf173440dad15b99a051389fadc366d5df2", "sha1:dcb32e6256459d3660fdc90e4c79e95a921841cc"}
    and services.http.response.headers.expires: 0
    and services.http.response.headers.cache_control: "*"
)

References

• https://bc-security.gitbook.io/empire-wiki/

Raccoon Stealer V2 (RecordBreaker C2) 🔎 →

services.banner_hashes: "sha256:7987d0c39c4839572ab88c6d82da01395f74e0c31f12d94c58d0e1bed0b0c75c"

References

• https://twitter.com/1zrr4h/status/1593377638504087553

NimPlant C2 🔎 →

services.http.response.headers.Server: "NimPlant C2 Server" or services.http.response.body_hashes: "sha256:636d68bd1bc19d763de95d0a6406f4f77953f9973389857353ac445e2b6fff87"

References

• https://github.com/chvancooten/NimPlant
• https://twitter.com/chvancooten/status/1629911090774589442

RedGuard 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject_dn: "C=CN, L=HangZhou, O=Alibaba (China) Technology Co.\\, Ltd., CN=\*.aliyun.com"

References

• https://github.com/wikiZ/RedGuard
• https://github.com/wikiZ/RedGuard/blob/a49d862c79a447bc300865bde08aa37548326f5b/config/RedGuard_CobaltStrike.go

AsyncRAT 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "AsyncRAT Server"

References

• https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

BitRAT 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "BitRAT"

References

• https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

OrcusRAT 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: {"Orcus Server", "OrcusServerCertificate"}

References

• https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

QuasarRAT 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: {"Anony96", "Quasar Server CA"}

References

• https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

NanoCore 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "unk"

References

• https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

DcRat 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "DcRat Server"

References

• https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

Deimos C2 🔎 →

same_service((services.http.response.html_title="Deimos C2" or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization="Acme Co") and services.port: 8443)

References

• https://michaelkoczwara.medium.com/hunting-c2-with-shodan-223ca250d06f
• https://github.com/DeimosC2/DeimosC2/blob/2f368a5b151ea2da9f4fcc3627b1eb7d28b38fe5/c2/lib/certs/gen_cert.go

Posh C2 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject_dn: "C=US, ST=Minnesota, L=Minnetonka, O=Pajfds, OU=Jethpro, CN=P18055077"

References

• https://michaelkoczwara.medium.com/hunting-c2-with-shodan-223ca250d06f
• https://github.com/nettitude/PoshC2/blob/517903431ab43e6d714b24b0752ba111f5d4c2f1/poshc2/server/Config.py#L137

IcedID Banking Trojan 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject_dn: "CN=localhost, C=AU, ST=Some-State, O=Internet Widgits Pty Ltd"

References

• https://malware.news/t/melting-ice-tracking-icedid-servers-with-a-few-simple-steps/49525
• https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

Gozi Malware 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer_dn: "C=XX, ST=1, L=1, O=1, OU=1, CN=\*"

References

• https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

Pupy RAT C2 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.headers.Etag="\"aa3939fc357723135870d5036b12a67097b03309\"" and services.http.response.headers.Server="nginx/1.13.8") or same_service(services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.organization:/[a-zA-Z]{10}/ and  services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization:/[a-zA-Z]{10}/ and services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organizational_unit="CONTROL")

Note: This search uses regex and requires a paid account.

References

• https://github.com/n1nj4sec/pupy

Responder Server 🔎 →

services.banner="HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized\r\nServer: Microsoft-IIS/7.5\r\nDate:  <REDACTED>\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\nWWW-Authenticate: NTLM\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\n"

References

• https://github.com/lgandx/Responder
• https://github.com/lgandx/Responder/blob/07c963f5ea52e27977ef603de180d446d009ed41/tools/MultiRelay/RelayMultiPackets.py#L93

Titan Stealer C2 🔎 →

services.http.response.body: "Titan Stealer"

References

• https://twitter.com/BushidoToken/status/1633458241421320192

Open Directory Listing Host with Suspicious File Names in their Contents 🔎 →

same_service(
    (services.http.response.html_title:"Index of /" or services.http.response.html_title:"Directory Listing for /")
    and services.http.response.body: /.*?(cve|metasploit|cobaltstrike|sliver|covenant|brc4|brute-ratel|commander-runme|bruteratel|ps2exe|(badger|shellcode|sc|beacon|artifact|payload|teamviewer|anydesk|mimikatz|cs|rclone)\.(exe|ps1|vbs|bin|nupkg)).*/
)

Note: This search uses regex and requires a paid account.

Splunk 🔎 →

services.software.product: "Splunk"

References

• https://www.splunk.com

Databases

Exposed CouchDB Servers 🔎 →

services.http.response.body: '"couchdb": "Welcome"'

References

• https://couchdb.apache.org/

Dashboards

cAdvisor Dashboards 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.html_title=`cAdvisor - /` and services.http.response.status_code=200 and services.http.request.uri="*/containers/")

References

• https://github.com/google/cadvisor

HashiCorp Consul Dashboards 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.html_title=`Consul by HashiCorp` and services.http.request.uri: "*/ui/")

References

• https://www.consul.io/

Netdata Dashboards 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.headers.Server="Netdata Embedded HTTP*" and services.http.response.html_title="netdata dashboard")

References

• https://www.netdata.cloud/

Rancher Dashboards 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.headers.unknown.name: "X-Rancher-Version" and services.http.response.html_title: "Loading…")

Traefik Dashboards 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.request.uri: "*/dashboard/" and services.http.response.html_title: "Traefik")

References

• https://github.com/traefik/traefik

Weave Scope 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.html_title: "Weave Scope" and services.http.response.body="*WEAVEWORKS_CSRF*")

References

• https://www.weave.works/oss/scope/

Game Servers

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 🔎 →

same_service(banner: "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Server" and service_name: VALVE)

Media Servers

Plex Media Server 🔎 →

services.software.vendor: "Plex"

References

• https://plex.tv/

MythWeb 🔎 →

services.http.request.uri: "mythweb"

Screenshot

References

• https://github.com/MythTV/mythweb

Random Services

Hosts emitting GNSS payloads 🔎 →

services.banner: "$GPRMC"

Directory Listing 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Index of /"

Swagger UI 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Swagger UI - "

Screenshot

References

• https://swagger.io/tools/swagger-ui/

Mongo Express Admin Interface 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Home - Mongo Express"

References

• https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express

shell2http 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "shell2http"

Busybox Shells 🔎 →

same_service(services.banner: "Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands" and services.service_name: TELNET) and services.truncated: false

Screenshot

Unauthenticated Redis Servers 🔎 →

services.redis.ping_response: "PONG"

Misconfigured Kubernetes Installations 🔎 →

services.kubernetes.pod_names: *

Misconfigured WordPress 🔎 →

services.http.response.body: "The wp-config.php creation script uses this file"

Unconfigured AdGuard 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.html_title: "Setup AdGuard Home" and services.http.request.uri="*/install.html")

References

• https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html

Prometheus Node Exporters 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.html_title: "node exporter" and services.http.response.body: "/metrics")

VictoriaMetrics Agent 🔎 →

services.http.response.body: "<h2>vmagent</h2>"

Screenshot

References

• https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html

SonarQube 🔎 →

same_service(http.response.html_title: "SonarQube" and http.response.status_code: 200 and http.response.protocol: "HTTP/1.1")

References

• https://www.sonarqube.org/

Advanced Queries

IPv6 Hosts 🔎 →

ip:"2001::/3"

Honeypots Hosts 🔎 →

services.truncated: true

North Korean Hosts 🔎 →

location.country: "North Korea"

Hosts that identify as US government or military 🔎 →

dns.names: *.gov or dns.names: *.mil or name: *.gov or name: *.mil

Services Listening on 53 that are not DNS 🔎 →

same_service(services.port: 53 and not services.service_name: DNS) and services.truncated: false

Alternative syntax without the services. prefix inside the same_service function:

same_service(port: 53 and not service_name: DNS) and services.truncated: false

Non-Standard Services Listening on Common Ports 🔎 →

same_service(services.port: {21, 22, 80} and not services.service_name: {HTTP, SSH, FTP, UNKNOWN}) and services.truncated: false

Services Listening on Port 22 that are not SSH 🔎 →

same_service(services.port: 22 and not services.service_name: {SSH} and not services.banner: {"Connection refused", "SSH-", "Exceeded MaxStartups", "Too many users", "Connection closed by server"}) and services.truncated: false

Services Listening on 80 or 443 that are not HTTP or HTTPS (or UNKNOWN with TLS) 🔎 →

not same_service(services.port: 443 and services.name: UNKNOWN and services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject_dn: *) and same_service(services.port: {80, 443} and not services.service_name: {KUBERNETES, ANYCONNECT, OPENVPN, HTTP} and not services.banner: “HTTP/”) and services.truncated: false

Credits

• jakejarvis/awesome-shodan-queries
• woj-ciech/Kamerka-GUI
• salesforce/jarm
• cedowens/C2-JARM
• emilyaustin/censys-resources
• drb-ra
• The State of SSL/TLS Certificate Usage in Malware C&C Communications
• Hunting C2 - Michael Koczwara

License

Star History