Basic Python V3 Search Tool using RE module

Gregg Dotoli gdotoli at gmail.com
Wed Mar 25 15:43:28 EDT 2015


This basic script will help to find 
evidence of CryptoWall on a slave drive. Although it is
just a string, more complex regex patterns can be 
replaced with the string. It is incredible how fast Python is and
how easy it has helped in quickly assessing a pool of slave drives.
I'm improving it as we speak.


Thanks for your help and patience. I'm new with Python.


import os
import re
# From the Root
topdir = "."

# Regex Pattern
pattern="DECRYPT_I"
regexp=re.compile(pattern)
for dirpath,dirnames, files in os.walk(topdir):
    for name in files:
            result=regexp.search(name)
            print(os.path.join(dirpath,name))
            print (result)





Gregg Dotoli



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