DirectoryScanner : Remote Directory Server Fingerprinting Tool

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Contents

About
Features
Installation & Un-installation
How to Use?
Screenshots
Acknowledgements
Release History
Download New v2.5

About

Directory Scanner is the FREE Directory Server fingerprinting tool. It can help you to remotely detect the type of Directory servers (such as Microsoft Active Directory, Novell eDirectory etc) running on the local network as well as Internet.

Also it can be used in penetration testing while evaluating client environments where multiple Directory servers are deployed. Directory dedicated servers are typically used to store crucial data in an organization including employee authentication information. Often getting hold of poorly configured Directory server can be a gold mine for the pentester.

In addition to this, it can greatly help administrators to remotely keep tab on Directory Servers running in their network. At a time you can use it to scan single or multiple systems in the network.

It can detect following popular Directory Servers

Novell eDirectory
Microsoft Active Directory
Open LDAP Directory
Sun One Directory
Netscape Directory
IBM Lotus Domino
Oracle Directory
OpenDS Directory

It works on wide range of platforms starting from Windows XP to latest operating system Windows 8.

Features

Remotely detect type of Directory Servers in the network.
Auto detect popular Directory servers such as Active Directory, eDirectory, Open LDAP etc
Scan single or multiple servers on the network/Internet.
Ability to stop the scanning operation at any time.
Automatically remember and restore last settings
Save the directory scan report to HTML/XML/TEXT file
Support for local Installation & Un-installation.

Installation & Uninstallation

It comes with simple Instaler that helps you to install it locally on your system for regular usage. It has intuitive setup wizard which guides you through series of steps in completion of installation.

At any point of time, you can uninstall the product using the Uninstaller located at following location (by default)

[Windows 32 bit]
C:\Program Files\SecurityXploded\DirectoryScanner

[Windows 64 bit]
C:\Program Files (x86)\SecurityXploded\DirectoryScanner

Using DirectoryScanner

DirectoryScanner is GUI application which comes with simple interface and makes it easy to use even for beginners.

Here are simple steps

Launch DirectoryScanner on your system after installation.
Select single or network to scan for single or multiple systems.
Enter the start & end IP address of host. Note that only 'class C' network range is supported.
Next click on 'Start Scan' button to being the directory scanning operation.
It will scan and display the status as well as results in the list box as shown in the screenshot below.
At the end, you can save scan report to HTML/XML/Text file by clicking on 'Report' button and then select the type of file from the drop down box of 'Save File Dialog'.

Screenshots

Screenshot 1: DirectoryScanner scanning and detecting few Open LDAP based directory servers on Internet.

Screenshot 2: HTML based Directory scan report generated by DirectoryScanner

Acknowledgements

This tool uses Novell - OpenLDAP SDK for the scanning operation. My Special thanks to the SDK community for their constant support and ingenious work over the years.

Release History

Version 2.5 : 9th Apr 2013

Fix for screen refresh problem during the directory scanning operation

Version 2.0 : 7th Oct 2012

Automatically remember and restore last settings. Support for detection of OpenDS Directory.

Version 1.5 : 12th Sep 2012

Generate directory scan report in XML/TEXT file. Improved user interface.

Version 1.0 : 15th Apr 2011

First public release of DirectoryScanner

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FREE Download Directory Scanner v2.5

License : Freeware
Platform : Windows XP, 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8

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