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percie1/antibot-fingerprinter — explained in plain English

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tl;dr

A passive command line tool that identifies which WAF or anti-bot vendor, like Cloudflare or Akamai, protects a website from a single normal HTTP request.

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    What it does
      Passive fingerprinting
      Detects WAF vendors
      Single request only
    Tech stack
      Python
      requests library
    Use cases
      Authorized recon
      Bug bounty scoping
      Security research
    Audience
      Security researchers
      Bug bounty hunters
      Developers

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what do people make with this?

VIBE 1

Identify which WAF or anti-bot vendor protects a target website you are authorized to test.

VIBE 2

Inspect response headers, cookies, and TLS certificates for security stack clues.

VIBE 3

Detect layered security stacks where multiple vendors handle different jobs.

VIBE 4

Extend the tool with custom vendor signatures for internal or niche services.

what's the stack?

Pythonrequests

how it stacks up fr

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Stars00
LanguagePythonPythonPython
Last pushed2022-11-22
MaintenanceDormant
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity2/52/54/5
Audiencedevelopergeneraldeveloper

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how do i run it?

Difficulty · easy time til it works · 5min

Only requires the requests library, use only on authorized targets per the README's legal notice.

MIT license: free to use, copy, modify, and distribute, as long as you keep the original copyright notice.

in plain english

antibot-fingerprinter is a passive HTTP fingerprinting tool that identifies which web application firewall or anti-bot service a website uses, based on a single normal request rather than active scanning or payloads. It can recognize vendors including Cloudflare, Akamai, DataDome, AWS CloudFront, PerimeterX, Imperva, Shape Security, and Fastly by looking at specific response headers, cookies, and TLS certificate details that each vendor tends to leave behind. The README explains the reasoning behind staying passive: active scanning techniques like fuzzing or directory brute forcing tend to trigger rate limits, IP bans, and firewall block rules before you learn anything useful. A passive approach instead reads signals that a server already broadcasts on every ordinary request, so one plain GET request is enough to identify the stack. Knowing which vendor is in front of a site matters because each one calls for a different approach: Akamai implies behavioral sensors are watching mouse and keyboard activity, DataDome implies TLS fingerprint checks, and Cloudflare implies JavaScript challenge handling. Using the tool is a single command line call that takes a target URL, and it prints the HTTP status code, the notable response headers, TLS certificate details like issuer and subject alternative names, and a list of detected vendors with the specific signals that triggered each match. The README notes that sites often run more than one vendor layered together, each handling a different job such as caching versus bot management. The tool can be extended by adding a new entry to a signatures dictionary in the source file, specifying headers, server values, cookies, and body patterns to match for a new vendor. Installation only requires cloning the repository and installing the requests library with pip. The README states this tool performs passive analysis only and should be used only on targets you are authorized to test or that fall within a bug bounty program's scope. It is released under the MIT license.

prompts (copy fr)

prompt 1
Help me install antibot-fingerprinter and run it against a site I am authorized to test.
prompt 2
Explain how the SIGNATURES dictionary in fingerprinter.py is structured so I can add a new vendor.
prompt 3
Walk me through interpreting the cookie and header output when multiple vendors are detected.
prompt 4
Show me how TLS certificate SANs can reveal internal infrastructure in this tool's output.

Frequently asked questions

what is antibot-fingerprinter fr?

A passive command line tool that identifies which WAF or anti-bot vendor, like Cloudflare or Akamai, protects a website from a single normal HTTP request.

What language is antibot-fingerprinter written in?

Mainly Python. The stack also includes Python, requests.

What license does antibot-fingerprinter use?

MIT license: free to use, copy, modify, and distribute, as long as you keep the original copyright notice.

How hard is antibot-fingerprinter to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is antibot-fingerprinter for?

Mainly developer.

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