Basic Python V3 Search Tool using RE module

[Dave Angel]

On 03/25/2015 03:43 PM, Gregg Dotoli wrote:
>
> 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)

Any reason you started a new thread?

And I thought (from the other thread) that you were trying to search the 
contents of the files.  Right now you're just looking for a file name 
containing the pattern.

That could explain why it's so fast.

-- 
DaveA