httprecon project - advanced http fingerprinting

httprecon project

advanced web server fingerprinting

"Marc Ruef developed a new tool to make fingerprinting of web servers much easier. While using different test cases the hard requirements of such an identification can be met much better and more precise." - Martin Rutishauser, OneConsult GmbH, Director Training and Research

The httprecon project is doing some research in the field of web server fingerprinting, also known as http fingerprinting. The goal is the highly accurate identification of given httpd implementations. This is very important within professional vulnerability analysis.

Besides the discussion of different approaches and the documentation of gathered results also an implementation for automated analysis is provided. This software shall improve the easyness and efficiency of this kind of enumeration. Traditional approaches as like banner-grabbing, status code enumeration and header ordering analysis are used. However, many other analysis techniques were introduced to increase the possibilities of accurate web server fingerprinting. Some of them were already discussed in the book Die Kunst des Penetration Testing (Chapter 9.3, HTTP-Fingerprinting, pp. 530-550).