Shodan Dorks
Basic
City:
Find devices in a particular city.
Country:
Find devices in a particular country.
Geo:
Find devices by giving geographical coordinates.
Location
Hostname:
Find devices matching the hostname.
Net:
Find devices based on an IP address or /x CIDR.
Organization
Autonomous System Number (ASN)
OS:
Find devices based on operating system.
Port:
Find devices based on open ports.
Before/after:
Find devices before or after between a given time.
SSL/TLS Certificates
Self signed certificates
Expired certificates
Device Type
Operating System
Product
Customer Premises Equipment (CPE)
Server
ssh fingerprints
Web
Pulse Secure
PEM Certificates
Databases
MySQL
MongoDB
elastic
Memcached
CouchDB
PostgreSQL
Riak
Redis
Cassandra
Industrial Control Systems
Samsung Electronic Billboards
Gas Station Pump Controllers
Fuel Pumps connected to internet:
No auth required to access CLI terminal.
Automatic License Plate Readers
Traffic Light Controllers / Red Light Cameras
Voting Machines in the United States
Open ATM:
Telcos Running Cisco Lawful Intercept Wiretaps
Prison Pay Phones
Tesla PowerPack Charging Status
Electric Vehicle Chargers
Maritime Satellites
Shodan made a pretty sweet Ship Tracker that maps ship locations in real time, too!
Submarine Mission Control Dashboards
CAREL PlantVisor Refrigeration Units
Nordex Wind Turbine Farms
C4 Max Commercial Vehicle GPS Trackers
DICOM Medical X-Ray Machines
Secured by default, thankfully, but these 1,700+ machines still have no business being on the internet.
GaugeTech Electricity Meters
Siemens Industrial Automation
Siemens HVAC Controllers
Door / Lock Access Controllers
Railroad Management
Tesla Powerpack charging Status:
Helps to find the charging status of tesla powerpack.
XZERES Wind Turbine
PIPS Automated License Plate Reader
Modbus
Niagara Fox
GE-SRTP
MELSEC-Q
CODESYS
S7
BACnet
HART-IP
Omron FINS
IEC 60870-5-104
DNP3
EtherNet/IP
PCWorx
Crimson v3.0
ProConOS
Remote Desktop
Unprotected VNC
Windows RDP
99.99% are secured by a secondary Windows login screen.
Network Infrastructure
Hacked routers:
Routers which got compromised
Redis open instances
Citrix:
Find Citrix Gateway.
Weave Scope Dashboards
Command-line access inside Kubernetes pods and Docker containers, and real-time visualization/monitoring of the entire infrastructure.
MongoDB
Older versions were insecure by default. Very scary.
Mongo Express Web GUI
Like the infamous phpMyAdmin but for MongoDB.
Jenkins CI
Jenkins:
Jenkins Unrestricted Dashboard
Docker APIs
Docker Private Registries
Pi-hole Open DNS Servers
Already Logged-In as root via Telnet
Telnet Access:
NO password required for telnet access.
Polycom video-conference system no-auth shell
NPort serial-to-eth / MoCA devices without password
Android Root Bridges
A tangential result of Google's sloppy fractured update approach.
Lantronix Serial-to-Ethernet Adapter Leaking Telnet Passwords
Citrix Virtual Apps
Cisco Smart Install
Vulnerable (kind of "by design," but especially when exposed).
PBX IP Phone Gateways
Polycom Video Conferencing
Telnet Configuration:
Bomgar Help Desk Portal
Intel Active Management CVE-2017-5689
HP iLO 4 CVE-2017-12542
Lantronix ethernet adapter’s admin interface without password
Wifi Passwords:
Helps to find the cleartext wifi passwords in Shodan.
Misconfigured Wordpress Sites:
The wp-config.php if accessed can give out the database credentials.
Outlook Web Access:
Exchange 2007
Exchange 2010
Exchange 2013 / 2016
Lync / Skype for Business
Network Attached Storage (NAS)
SMB (Samba) File Shares
Produces ~500,000 results...narrow down by adding "Documents" or "Videos", etc.
Specifically domain controllers:
Concerning default network shares of QuickBooks files:
FTP Servers with Anonymous Login
Iomega / LenovoEMC NAS Drives
Buffalo TeraStation NAS Drives
Logitech Media Servers
Plex Media Servers
Tautulli / PlexPy Dashboards
Home router attached USB
Webcams
D-Link webcams
Hipcam
Yawcams
webcamXP/webcam7
Android IP Webcam Server
Security DVRs
Surveillance Cams:
With username:admin and password: :P
Printers & Copiers:
HP Printers
Xerox Copiers/Printers
Epson Printers
Canon Printers
Home Devices
Yamaha Stereos
Apple AirPlay Receivers
Apple TVs, HomePods, etc.
Chromecasts / Smart TVs
Crestron Smart Home Controllers
Random Stuff
OctoPrint 3D Printer Controllers
Etherium Miners
Apache Directory Listings
Substitute .pem with any extension or a filename like phpinfo.php.
Misconfigured WordPress
Exposed wp-config.php files containing database credentials.
Too Many Minecraft Servers
Literally Everything in North Korea
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