So I whipped a talk recently to give at BSidesLA about how to stack tools voltron-style together and get some pretty gnarly successes. Here are some light talking points to give you an idea of what the subject matter was, but I should let the slides do most of the talking for me (though they may be slightly vague without the video, which isn’t up at the time of this writing.)
Use shodan to find things online (ec2, one-off sites, etc) not brought to the attention of IT or InfoSec before going live
Enumerate attack surface without actually performing active scans (many shops forbid infosec guys to scan their own environment. Crazy, right? I know!)
Use shodan for red teaming (enumerating attack surface quietly, finding “hidden stuff”, all without actually actively scanning)
Bolt on the python api, pipe out results, do crazy things
Screenshot 50,000 webpages using a threaded script
Check for HTTP 200 OK return codes for direct object access vulns
Pipe output of Shodan directly into metasploit via an RC script
Leverage metasploits powerful auxiliary scanner tools to do enumeration
Launch very targeted attacks on huge attack surface with NO PORT SCANS
whatever else you can think up python can do for you!
(edit: the videos audio doesnt start until 18 seconds in. I’ve edited it, and the video is updating on youtube. This is temporary, please bear with me)