"My little birds are everywhere, even in the North, they whisper to me the strangest stories." - Lord Varys
Whispers is a static code analysis tool designed for parsing various common data formats in search of hardcoded credentials and dangerous functions. Whispers can run in the CLI or you can integrate it in your CI/CD pipeline.
- Passwords
- API tokens
- AWS keys
- Private keys
- Hashed credentials
- Authentication tokens
- Dangerous functions
- Sensitive files
Whispers is intended to be a structured text parser, not a code parser.
The following commonly used formats are currently supported:
- YAML
- JSON
- XML
- .npmrc
- .pypirc
- .htpasswd
- .properties
- pip.conf
- conf / ini
- Dockerfile
- Shell scripts
- Python3
Python3 files are parsed as ASTs because of native language support.
The following language files are parsed as text, and checked for common variable declaration and assignment patterns:
- JavaScript
- Java
- Go
- PHP
- AWS credentials files
- JDBC connection strings
- Jenkins config files
- SpringFramework Beans config files
- Java Properties files
pip3 install whispers
git clone https://github.com/Skyscanner/whispers
cd whispers
make install
whispers --help
whispers --info
whispers source/code/fileOrDir
whispers --config config.yml source/code/fileOrDir
whispers --output /tmp/secrets.yml source/code/fileOrDir
whispers --rules aws-id,aws-secret source/code/fileOrDir
from whispers.cli import parse_args
from whispers.core import run
src = "tests/fixtures"
configfile = "whispers/config.yml"
args = parse_args(["-c", configfile, src])
for secret in run(args):
print(secret)
There are several configuration options available in Whispers. Itβs possible to include/exclude results based on file path, key, or value. File path specifications are interpreted as globs. Keys and values accept regular expressions and several other parameters. There is a default configuration file built-in that will be used if you don't provide a custom one.
config.yml
should have the following structure:
include:
files:
- "**/*.yml"
exclude:
files:
- "**/test/**/*"
- "**/tests/**/*"
keys:
- ^foo
values:
- bar$
rules:
starks:
message: Whispers from the North
severity: CRITICAL
value:
regex: (Aria|Ned) Stark
ignorecase: True
The fastest way to tweak detection (ie: remove false positives and unwanted results) is to copy the default config.yml into a new file, adapt it, and pass it as an argument to Whispers.
whispers --config config.yml --rules starks src/file/or/dir
Rules specify the actual things that should be pulled out from key-value pairs. There are several common ones that come built-in, such as AWS keys and passwords, but the tool is made to be easily expandable with new rules.
- Custom rules can be defined in the main config file under
rules:
- Custom rules can be added to whispers/rules
rule-id: # unique rule name
description: Values formatted like AWS Session Token
message: AWS Session Token # report will show this message
severity: BLOCKER # one of BLOCKER, CRITICAL, MAJOR, MINOR, INFO
key: # specify key format
regex: (aws.?session.?token)?
ignorecase: True # case-insensitive matching
value: # specify value format
regex: ^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])[A-Za-z0-9\+\/]{270,450}$
ignorecase: False # case-sensitive matching
minlen: 270 # value is at least this long
isBase64: True # value is base64-encoded
isAscii: False # value is binary data when decoded
isUri: False # value is not formatted like a URI
similar: 0.35 # maximum similarity between key and value
All parsing functionality is implemented via plugins. Each plugin implements a class with the pairs()
method that runs through files and returns the key-value pairs to be checked with rules.
class PluginName:
def pairs(self, file):
yield "key", "value"