Github Search is a quite powerful and useful feature that can be used to search for sensitive data on repositories. Collection of Github dorks can reveal sensitive personal and/or organizational information such as private keys, credentials, authentication tokens, etc. This list is supposed to be useful for assessing security and performing pen-testing of systems.
github-dorks is a Python command-line tool that searches a repository or an
organization/user's repositories using the queries in a dorks file.
This tool uses github3.py to talk with GitHub Search API.
Clone this repository and run:
pip install .You can also run github-dorks using Docker for a consistent environment:
# Build the Docker image
docker build -t github-dorks .
# Run with a GitHub token (recommended)
docker run -e GH_TOKEN=your_github_token github-dorks -u someuser
# Run with username/password
docker run -e GH_USER=your_username -e GH_PWD=your_password github-dorks -u someuser
# Save results to a CSV file
docker run -v $(pwd)/output:/app/output -e GH_TOKEN=your_github_token github-dorks -u someuser -o /app/output/results.csvGH_USER - Environment variable to specify Github user
GH_PWD - Environment variable to specify a password
GH_TOKEN - Environment variable to specify Github token
GH_URL - Environment variable to specify GitHub Enterprise base URL
Some example usages are listed below:
github-dorks -r techgaun/github-dorks # search a single repo
github-dorks -u techgaun # search all repos of a user
github-dorks -u dev-nepal # search all repos of an organization
GH_USER=techgaun GH_PWD=<mypass> github-dorks -u dev-nepal # search as authenticated user
GH_TOKEN=<github_token> github-dorks -u dev-nepal # search using auth token
GH_URL=https://github.example.com github-dorks -u dev-nepal # search a GitHub Enterprise instanceThe legacy python github-dork.py ... invocation remains available for
compatibility. The package can also run as python -m github_dorks ....
Run the dependency-free unit test suite with:
python -m unittest discover -s tests -vThe CI test matrix covers Python 3.10 through 3.13.
- Authenticated requests get a higher rate limit. But, since this tool waits for the api rate limit to be reset (which is usually less than a minute), it can be slightly slow.
- Search results can be printed to the terminal or written as CSV.
Handle rate limit and retry. PR welcome
Please consider contributing dorks that can reveal potentially sensitive information on Github. Documented sources for newer credential families are maintained in docs/dork-sources.md.
The canonical, categorized dictionary is github-dorks.txt. The table below provides descriptions for many established patterns; newer credential families and their vendor references are tracked in docs/dork-sources.md. Many dorks can be modified to make the search more specific or generic. You can see more options here.
| Dork | Description |
|---|---|
| filename:.npmrc _auth | npm registry authentication data |
| filename:.dockercfg auth | docker registry authentication data |
| extension:pem private | private keys |
| extension:ppk private | puttygen private keys |
| filename:id_rsa or filename:id_dsa | private ssh keys |
| extension:sql mysql dump | mysql dump |
| extension:sql mysql dump password | mysql dump look for password; you can try varieties |
| filename:credentials aws_access_key_id | might return false negatives with dummy values |
| filename:.s3cfg | might return false negatives with dummy values |
| filename:wp-config.php | wordpress config files |
| filename:.htpasswd | htpasswd files |
| filename:.env DB_USERNAME NOT homestead | laravel .env (CI, various ruby based frameworks too) |
| filename:.env MAIL_HOST=smtp.gmail.com | gmail smtp configuration (try different smtp services too) |
| filename:.git-credentials | git credentials store, add NOT username for more valid results |
| PT_TOKEN language:bash | pivotaltracker tokens |
| filename:.bashrc password | search for passwords, etc. in .bashrc (try with .bash_profile too) |
| filename:.bashrc mailchimp | variation of above (try more variations) |
| filename:.bash_profile aws | aws access and secret keys |
| rds.amazonaws.com password | Amazon RDS possible credentials |
| extension:json api.forecast.io | try variations, find api keys/secrets |
| extension:json mongolab.com | mongolab credentials in json configs |
| extension:yaml mongolab.com | mongolab credentials in yaml configs (try with yml) |
| jsforce extension:js conn.login | possible salesforce credentials in nodejs projects |
| SF_USERNAME salesforce | possible salesforce credentials |
| filename:.tugboat NOT _tugboat | Digital Ocean tugboat config |
| HEROKU_API_KEY language:shell | Heroku api keys |
| HEROKU_API_KEY language:json | Heroku api keys in json files |
| filename:.netrc password | netrc that possibly holds sensitive credentials |
| filename:_netrc password | netrc that possibly holds sensitive credentials |
| filename:hub oauth_token | hub config that stores github tokens |
| filename:robomongo.json | mongodb credentials file used by robomongo |
| filename:filezilla.xml Pass | filezilla config file with possible user/pass to ftp |
| filename:recentservers.xml Pass | filezilla config file with possible user/pass to ftp |
| filename:config.json auths | docker registry authentication data |
| filename:idea14.key | IntelliJ Idea 14 key, try variations for other versions |
| filename:config irc_pass | possible IRC config |
| filename:connections.xml | possible db connections configuration, try variations to be specific |
| filename:express.conf path:.openshift | openshift config, only email and server thou |
| filename:.pgpass | PostgreSQL file which can contain passwords |
| filename:proftpdpasswd | Usernames and passwords of proftpd created by cpanel |
| filename:ventrilo_srv.ini | Ventrilo configuration |
| [WFClient] Password= extension:ica | WinFrame-Client infos needed by users to connect toCitrix Application Servers |
| filename:server.cfg rcon password | Counter Strike RCON Passwords |
| JEKYLL_GITHUB_TOKEN | Github tokens used for jekyll |
| filename:.bash_history | Bash history file |
| filename:.cshrc | RC file for csh shell |
| filename:.history | history file (often used by many tools) |
| filename:.sh_history | korn shell history |
| filename:sshd_config | OpenSSH server config |
| filename:dhcpd.conf | DHCP service config |
| filename:prod.exs NOT prod.secret.exs | Phoenix prod configuration file |
| filename:prod.secret.exs | Phoenix prod secret |
| filename:configuration.php JConfig password | Joomla configuration file |
| filename:config.php dbpasswd | PHP application database password (e.g., phpBB forum software) |
| path:sites databases password | Drupal website database credentials |
| shodan_api_key language:python | Shodan API keys (try other languages too) |
| filename:shadow path:etc | Contains encrypted passwords and account information of new unix systems |
| filename:passwd path:etc | Contains user account information including encrypted passwords of traditional unix systems |
| extension:avastlic "support.avast.com" | Contains license keys for Avast! Antivirus |
| filename:dbeaver-data-sources.xml | DBeaver config containing MySQL Credentials |
| filename:.esmtprc password | esmtp configuration |
| extension:json googleusercontent client_secret | OAuth credentials for accessing Google APIs |
| HOMEBREW_GITHUB_API_TOKEN language:shell | Github token usually set by homebrew users |
| xoxp OR xoxb | Slack bot and private tokens |
| .mlab.com password | MLAB Hosted MongoDB Credentials |
| filename:logins.json | Firefox saved password collection (key3.db usually in same repo) |
| filename:CCCam.cfg | CCCam Server config file |
| msg nickserv identify filename:config | Possible IRC login passwords |
| filename:settings.py SECRET_KEY | Django secret keys (usually allows for session hijacking, RCE, etc) |
| filename:secrets.yml password | Usernames/passwords, Rails applications |
| filename:master.key path:config | Rails master key (used for decrypting credentials.yml.enc for Rails 5.2+) |
| filename:deployment-config.json | Created by sftp-deployment for Atom, contains server details and credentials |
| filename:.ftpconfig | Created by remote-ssh for Atom, contains SFTP/SSH server details and credentials |
| filename:.remote-sync.json | Created by remote-sync for Atom, contains FTP and/or SCP/SFTP/SSH server details and credentials |
| filename:sftp.json path:.vscode | Created by vscode-sftp for VSCode, contains SFTP/SSH server details and credentails |
| filename:sftp-config.json | Created by SFTP for Sublime Text, contains FTP/FTPS or SFTP/SSH server details and credentials |
| filename:WebServers.xml | Created by Jetbrains IDEs, contains webserver credentials with encoded passwords (not encrypted!) |
| "api_hash" "api_id" | Telegram API token |
| "https://hooks.slack.com/services/" | Slack services URL often have secret API token as a suffix |
| filename:github-recovery-codes.txt | GitHub recovery key |
| filename:gitlab-recovery-codes.txt | GitLab recovery key |
| filename:discord_backup_codes.txt | Discord recovery key |
| extension:yaml cloud.redislabs.com | Redis credentials provided by Redis Labs found in a YAML file |
| extension:json cloud.redislabs.com | Redis credentials provided by Redis Labs found in a JSON file |