WAFW00F

WAFW00F identifies and fingerprints Web Application Firewall (WAF) products.

How does it work?

To do its magic, WAFW00F does the following:

• Sends a normal HTTP request and analyses the response; this identifies a number of WAF solutions
• If that is not successful, it sends a number of (potentially malicious) HTTP requests and uses simple logic to deduce which WAF it is
• If that is also not successful, it analyses the responses previously returned and uses another simple algorithm to guess if a WAF or security solution is actively responding to our attacks

For further details, check out the source code on the main site, github.com/sandrogauci/wafw00f.

What does it detect?

It detects a number of WAFs. To view which WAFs it is able to detect run WAFW00F with the -l option. At the time of writing the output is as follows:

$ ./wafw00f -l

                                 ^     ^
        _   __  _   ____ _   __  _    _   ____
       ///7/ /.' \ / __////7/ /,' \ ,' \ / __/
      | V V // o // _/ | V V // 0 // 0 // _/
      |_n_,'/_n_//_/   |_n_,' \_,' \_,'/_/
                                <
                                 ...'

    WAFW00F - Web Application Firewall Detection Tool

    By Sandro Gauci && Wendel G. Henrique

Can test for these WAFs:

Applicure dotDefender
Art of Defence HyperGuard
Aqtronix WebKnight
Barracuda Aplication Firewall
BinarySec
Cisco ACE XML Gateway
Citrix NetScaler
CloudFlare
DenyALL WAF
eEye Digital Security - SecureIIS
F5 FirePass
F5 TrafficShield
F5 BIG-IP (LTM, APM, ASM)
IBM Web Application Security
IBM DataPower
Imperva SecureSphere
InfoGuard Airlock
Incapsula WAF
Juniper WebApp Secure
Microsoft ISA Server
Microsoft UrlScan
NetContinuum
Profense
TrustWave ModSecurity
Teros WAF
USP Secure Entry Server

How do I use it?

For help please make use of the --help option. The basic usage is to pass it a URL as an argument. Example:

$./wafw00f https://www.ibm.com/

                                 ^     ^
        _   __  _   ____ _   __  _    _   ____
       ///7/ /.' \ / __////7/ /,' \ ,' \ / __/
      | V V // o // _/ | V V // 0 // 0 // _/
      |_n_,'/_n_//_/   |_n_,' \_,' \_,'/_/
                                <
                                 ...'

    WAFW00F - Web Application Firewall Detection Tool

    By Sandro Gauci && Wendel G. Henrique

Checking https://www.ibm.com/
The site https://www.ibm.com/ is behind a Citrix NetScaler
Number of requests: 6

How do I install it?

The following should do the trick:

python setup.py install

or

pip install wafw00f

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