Parsing Sslscan into CSV

Sslscan is a tool used to enumerate the ciphers supported by HTTPS sites. Knowing the ciphers that are supported by a site is useful in web application testing. This is even more useful in a penetration test if some of the supported ciphers are weak.

How to do it…

This recipe will run Sslscan on a specified IP address and output the results into a CSV format:

import subprocess
import sys

ipfile = sys.argv[1]

IPs = open(ipfile, “r”)
output = open(“sslscan.csv”, “w+”)

for IP in IPs:
  try:
    command = “sslscan “+IP

    ciphers = subprocess.check_output(command.split())

    for line in ciphers.splitlines():
      if “Accepted” in line:
        output.write(IP+”,”+line.split()[1]+”,”+ line.split()[4]+”,”+line.split()[2]+”\r”)
  except:
    pass

How it works…

We first import the necessary modules and assign the filename supplied in the argument to a variable:

import subprocess
import sys

ipfile = sys.argv[1]

The filename supplied should point to a file containing a...