MANSPIDER

Crawl SMB shares for juicy information. File content searching + regex is supported!

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What's New in v2.0

Manspider 2.0 is here! This brings significant improvements:

• New and improved text extraction powered by Kreuzberg - now supporting PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, images with OCR, and many more formats
• Modern package management with uv for faster, more reliable installations
• Python 3.14 support - ready for the latest Python releases
• Date filtering - search files by modification date with --modified-after and --modified-before
• Comprehensive unit tests - improved reliability and stability

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File types supported:

• PDF
• DOCX
• XLSX
• PPTX
• any text-based format
• and many more!!

MANSPIDER will crawl every share on every target system. If provided creds don't work, it will fall back to "guest", then to a null session.

Installation

Quick Run with uvx (recommended)

# Run directly without installing
uvx --from git+https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/MANSPIDER manspider --help

Install with uv

# Install globally
uv tool install git+https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/MANSPIDER

# Run
manspider --help

Install with pipx

pipx install git+https://github.com/blacklanternsecurity/MANSPIDER

Optional Dependencies

Manspider uses Kreuzberg for text extraction from various file formats. Some formats require additional system dependencies:

# For OCR text extraction from images (PNG, JPEG, etc.)
sudo apt install tesseract-ocr

# For legacy Microsoft Office format support (.doc, .xls)
# Kreuzberg uses LibreOffice for conversion
sudo apt install libreoffice

Without these dependencies: Manspider will still work for PDF, DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, and text files, but will skip image OCR and legacy Office formats.

Installation (Docker)

docker run --rm -v ./manspider:/root/.manspider blacklanternsecurity/manspider --help

Note there is also a helper script manspider.sh which will automatically mount volumes for manspider's loot and logs directories, making it a bit more convenient to run:

./manspider.sh --help

Example #1: Search the network for filenames that may contain creds

NOTE: matching files are automatically downloaded into $HOME/.manspider/loot! (-n to disable)

$ manspider 192.168.0.0/24 -f passw user admin account network login logon cred -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #2: Search for spreadsheets with "password" in the filename

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -f passw -e xlsx csv -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #3: Search for documents containing passwords

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -c passw -e xlsx csv docx pdf -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #4: Search for interesting file extensions

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -e bat com vbs ps1 psd1 psm1 pem key rsa pub reg pfx cfg conf config vmdk vhd vdi dit -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #5: Search for finance-related files

This example searches financy-sounding directories for filenames containing 5 or more consecutive numbers (e.g. 000202006.EFT)

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local --dirnames bank financ payable payment reconcil remit voucher vendor eft swift -f '[0-9]{5,}' -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #6: Search for SSH keys by filename

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -e ppk rsa pem ssh rsa -o -f id_rsa id_dsa id_ed25519 -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #7: Search for SSH keys by content

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -e '' -c 'BEGIN .{1,10} PRIVATE KEY' -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #8: Search for password manager files

# .kdbx - KeePass Password Database (KeePass, KeePassXC)
# .kdb - KeePass Classic Database (KeePass 1.x)
# .1pif - 1Password Interchange Format (1Password)
# .agilekeychain - Agile Keychain Format (1Password, deprecated)
# .opvault - OPVault Format (1Password)
# .lpd - LastPass Data File (LastPass)
# .dashlane - Dashlane Data File (Dashlane)
# .psafe3 - Password Safe Database (Password Safe)
# .enpass - Enpass Password Manager Data File (Enpass)
# .bwdb - Bitwarden Database (Bitwarden)
# .msecure - mSecure Password Manager Data File (mSecure)
# .stickypass - Sticky Password Data File (Sticky Password)
# .pwm - Password Memory Data File (Password Memory)
# .rdb - RoboForm Data File (RoboForm)
# .safe - SafeInCloud Password Manager Data File (SafeInCloud)
# .zps - Zoho Vault Encrypted Data File (Zoho Vault)
# .pmvault - SplashID Safe Data File (SplashID Safe)
# .mywallet - MyWallet Password Manager Data File (MyWallet)
# .jpass - JPass Password Manager Data File (JPass)
# .pwmdb - Universal Password Manager Database (Universal Password Manager)
$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -e kdbx kdb 1pif agilekeychain opvault lpd dashlane psafe3 enpass bwdb msecure stickypass pwm rdb safe zps pmvault mywallet jpass pwmdb -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #9: Search for certificates

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -e pfx p12 pkcs12 pem key crt cer csr jks keystore key keys der -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Example #10: Search for recently modified files

$ manspider share.evilcorp.local -e docx xlsx pdf --modified-after 2026-01-01 -d evilcorp -u bob -p Passw0rd

Usage Tip #1:

You can run multiple instances of manspider at one time. This is useful when one instance is already running, and you want to search what it's downloaded (similar to grep -R). To do this, specify the keyword loot as the target, which will search the downloaded files in $HOME/.manspider/loot.

Usage Tip #2:

Reasonable defaults help prevent unwanted scenarios like getting stuck on a single target. All of these can be overridden:

• default spider depth: 10 (override with -m)
• default max filesize: 10MB (override with -s)
• default threads: 5 (override with -t)
• shares excluded: C$, IPC$, ADMIN$, PRINT$ (override with --exclude-sharenames)

Usage Tip #3:

Manspider accepts any combination of the following as targets:

• IPs
• hostnames
• subnets (CIDR format)
• files containing any of the above
• local folders containing files

For example, you could specify any or all of these:

• 192.168.1.250
• share.evilcorp.local
• 192.168.1.0/24
• smb_hosts.txt
• loot (to search already-downloaded files)
• /mnt/share (to recursively search a directory)
  • NOTE: when searching local files, you must specify a directory, not an individual file

Usage:

usage: manspider [-h] [-u USERNAME] [-p PASSWORD] [-d DOMAIN] [-l LOOT_DIR] [-m MAXDEPTH] [-H HASH] [-k] [-aesKey HEX] [-dc-ip IP] [-t THREADS] [-f REGEX [REGEX ...]] [-e EXT [EXT ...]]
                 [--exclude-extensions EXT [EXT ...]] [-c REGEX [REGEX ...]] [--sharenames SHARE [SHARE ...]] [--exclude-sharenames [SHARE ...]] [--dirnames DIR [DIR ...]]
                 [--exclude-dirnames DIR [DIR ...]] [-q] [-n] [-mfail INT] [-o] [-s SIZE] [-v]
                 targets [targets ...]

Scan for juicy data on SMB shares. Matching files and logs are stored in $HOME/.manspider. All filters are case-insensitive.

positional arguments:
  targets               IPs, Hostnames, CIDR ranges, or files containing targets to spider (NOTE: local searching also supported, specify directory name or keyword "loot" to search
                        downloaded files)

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u, --username USERNAME
                        username for authentication
  -p, --password PASSWORD
                        password for authentication
  -d, --domain DOMAIN   domain for authentication
  -l, --loot-dir LOOT_DIR
                        loot directory (default ~/.manspider/)
  -m, --maxdepth MAXDEPTH
                        maximum depth to spider (default: 10)
  -H, --hash HASH       NTLM hash for authentication
  -k, --kerberos        Use Kerberos authentication. Grabs credentials from ccache file (KRB5CCNAME) based on target parameters
  -aesKey, --aes-key HEX
                        AES key to use for Kerberos Authentication (128 or 256 bits)
  -dc-ip, --dc-ip IP    IP Address of the domain controller. If omitted it will use the domain part (FQDN) specified in the target parameter
  -t, --threads THREADS
                        concurrent threads (default: 5)
  -f, --filenames REGEX [REGEX ...]
                        filter filenames using regex (space-separated)
  -e, --extensions EXT [EXT ...]
                        only show filenames with these extensions (space-separated, e.g. `docx xlsx` for only word & excel docs)
  --exclude-extensions EXT [EXT ...]
                        ignore files with these extensions
  -c, --content REGEX [REGEX ...]
                        search for file content using regex (multiple supported)
  --sharenames SHARE [SHARE ...]
                        only search shares with these names (multiple supported)
  --exclude-sharenames [SHARE ...]
                        don't search shares with these names (multiple supported)
  --dirnames DIR [DIR ...]
                        only search directories containing these strings (multiple supported)
  --exclude-dirnames DIR [DIR ...]
                        don't search directories containing these strings (multiple supported)
  -q, --quiet           don't display matching file content
  -n, --no-download     don't download matching files
  -mfail, --max-failed-logons INT
                        limit failed logons
  -o, --or-logic        use OR logic instead of AND (files are downloaded if filename OR extension OR content match)
  -s, --max-filesize SIZE
                        don't retrieve files over this size, e.g. "500K" or ".5M" (default: 10M)
  -v, --verbose         show debugging messages
  --modified-after DATE
                        only show files modified after this date (format: YYYY-MM-DD)
  --modified-before DATE
                        only show files modified before this date (format: YYYY-MM-DD)

Development

Testing

Note: Running the full test suite requires the optional system dependencies listed above (tesseract-ocr and libreoffice).

# Run tests
uv run pytest tests/

Linting

This project uses ruff for linting and formatting.

# Run linter
uv run ruff check .

# Run linter with auto-fix
uv run ruff check --fix .

# Run formatter
uv run ruff format .