grep-archive

grep-archive

Grep archive search for string in any files on the filesystem, in archive and even inner archive.

Supported archive format are :

• Tar Formats
  • tar.gz
  • tar
  • tgz
  • tar.bz2
• Zip Format
  • jar
  • ear
  • war

Usage

List all files recursively in archives:

In the exmple below find all files in an archive

─$ /mnt/hgfs/VM_Shared/grep-archive -scan .    
File C:\Users\user\Downloads\apache-tomcat-9.0.58.tar.gz Found
File C:\Users\user\Downloads\apache-tomcat-9.0.58.tar.gz:apache-tomcat-9.0.58/bin/commons-daemon-native.tar.gz:commons-daemon-1.2.4-native-src/LICENSE.txt Found
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File C:\Users\user\Downloads\apache-tomcat-9.0.58.tar.gz:apache-tomcat-9.0.58/bin/commons-daemon-native.tar.gz:commons-daemon-1.2.4-native-src/RELEASE-NOTES.txt Found
File C:\Users\user\Downloads\apache-tomcat-9.0.58.tar.gz:apache-tomcat-9.0.58/bin/commons-daemon-native.tar.gz:commons-daemon-1.2.4-native-src/unix/INSTALL.txt Found
File C:\Users\user\Downloads\apache-tomcat-9.0.58.tar.gz:apache-tomcat-9.0.58/bin/commons-daemon-native.tar.gz:commons-daemon-1.2.4-native-src/unix/Makedefs.in Found
File C:\Users\user\Downloads\apache-tomcat-9.0.58.tar.gz:apache-tomcat-9.0.58/bin/commons-daemon-native.tar.gz:commons-daemon-1.2.4-native-src/unix/Makefile.in Found
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File C:\Users\user\Downloads\apache-tomcat-9.0.58.tar.gz:apache-tomcat-9.0.58/bin/commons-daemon-native.tar.gz:commons-daemon-1.2.4-native-src/unix/native/.indent.pro Found
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File C:\Users\user\Downloads\apache-tomcat-9.0.58.tar.gz:apache-tomcat-9.0.58/bin/commons-daemon-native.tar.gz:commons-daemon-1.2.4-native-src/unix/native/dso-dyld.c Found 
File C:\Users\user\Downloads\apache-tomcat-9.0.58.tar.gz:apache-tomcat-9.0.58/bin/commons-daemon-native.tar.gz:commons-daemon-1.2.4-native-src/windows/src/rprocess.c Found
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INFO: 1 scanned file, 408 scanned in archive, 409 files match file pattern, 0 line match line pattern

Search for a string :

In the sample below we search for the string Appender in any file log4j.* located in directory /home/kali

└─$ ./grep-archive -scan /home/kali -filter 'log4j.*' -grep-string 'Appender'
MATCH FOUND IN /home/kali/.BurpSuite/bapps/xxx/build/libs/hackvertor-all.jar:log4j.properties
     log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender
MATCH FOUND IN /home/kali/Audit/SAMPLE.war:WEB-INF/lib/mylib-1.14.jar:log4j.properties
     log4j.appender.A1=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
     log4j.appender.A2=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender

log4j.property has been found in archive /home/kali/.BurpSuite/bapps/xxx/build/libs/hackvertor-all.jar but also in archive WEB-INF/lib/renault-1.14.jar contained in /home/kali/Audit/FLUME.war