masc v0.3.1 releases: A Web Malware Scanner

by do son · Published November 22, 2018 · Updated November 1, 2020

masc

masc is a command-line program to scan (and to clean up in some cases) malware and suspect content in websites. It also performs some cleaning up operations on specific websites like WordPress.

Features

At the moment, there are some features available for any type of website (custom or CMS), and some of them only available for specific platforms:

Scan any website for malware using OWASP WebMalwareScanner checksum, YARA rules databases, and ClamAV engine (if available)
Perform some cleaning operations to improve website protection
Monitor the website for changes. Details are written in a log file
Scan your site to know if it has been infected with some malware
List your local backups
Logging support
Backup your site
Restore website
Scan for suspect files and compare with a clean installation (for WordPress and Drupal)
Clean up your site to avoid giving extra information to attackers (only available for WordPress)

Changelog v0.3.1

Included some issues fixed during Hacktoberfest 2020

Renovated setup script
New project structure
Some new backups features
Fixed some issues

Install

pip3 install masc

Usage

masc 0.2.2 (http://github.com/sfaci/masc)

usage: masc.py [-h] [--add-file FILENAME] [--add-word STRING] [--clean-cache]

               [--clean-site] [--list-backups] [--make-backup] [--monitor]

               [--name NAME] [--path PATH] [--rollback] [--scan]

               [--site-type {wordpress,drupal,custom}]



optional arguments:

  -h, --help            show this help message and exit

  --add-file FILENAME   Add a suspect file to the dictionary

  --add-word STRING     Add a suspect content to the dictionary

  --clean-cache         Clean masc cache (cache and logs files, NO backups)

  --clean-site          Clean up the site to hide information to attackers

  --list-backups        List local backups

  --make-backup         Create a local backup of the current installation

  --monitor             Monitor site to detect changes

  --name NAME           Name assigned to the scanned installation

  --path PATH           Website installation path

  --rollback            Restore a local backup

  --scan                Scan website for malware

  --site-type {wordpress,drupal,custom}

                        which type of web you want to scan:: wordpress,

                        joomla, drupal or magento

Tutorial

Source: https://github.com/sfaci/

masc v0.3.1 releases: A Web Malware Scanner

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