phisher-ctmonitor 0.1.1

A tool for monitoring the certificate transparency logs.

Phisher

A rich‐powered CLI tool for monitoring Certificate Transparency (CT) logs and alerting on domains matching your keywords.

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📖 Table of Contents

• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Examples
• Configuration
• Notifications
• Logging & Output

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🔥 Features

• Real-time monitoring of CT logs for newly issued certificates
• Keyword matching: scan domains against CLI‐provided or file‐based keyword lists
• Rich CLI using rich & rich‐argparse for beautiful output
• Notifications via Telegram bot (chat ID + bot token)
• Flexible output: append matches to .txt or .csv
• Colorful ASCII banner with gradient styling

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🚀 Installation

pip install phisher-ctmonitor

Or clone and install from source:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/phisher.git
cd phisher
pip install .

💻 Usage

Flag	Arguments	Description
-n, --notify	CHAT_ID BOT_TOKEN	Enable Telegram notifications (provide your chat ID and bot token).
-l, --log	—	Enable logging to file (defaults to domains.txt).
-k, --keywords	KEY1 KEY2 …	Space-separated list of keywords to match against domain names.
-kf, --keywords-file	path/to/file.txt	Path to a newline-separated file of keywords (default: keywords.txt).
-f, --format	csv | txt	Output format for matches: CSV or TXT (default: txt).
-o, --output-file	path/to/output.txt	File to append matching domain reports (default: domains.txt).
-h, --help	—	Show help message and exit.

🎯 Examples

Start Monitoring

phisher

Monitor with a keyword file

phisher --keywords-file my_keywords.txt --format csv --output-file alerts.csv

Monitor with Telegram notifications, --notify expects chat_id and telegram_bot_token

phisher -kf keywords.txt -n -1234567890123 123456789:ABCDEFghiJklMNopQRStuvWXyz

Enable file logging and provide inline keywords

phisher --log --keywords dhl reddit microsoft

⚙️ Configuration

If you have a long list of arguments, you can store them in a file called keywords.txt, with one keyword per line:

reddit
microsoft
dhl
office365

Alternatively, save the keywords in any other file and provide its path using the --output-file (-o) parameter.

Parameters needed to avoid rate limiting are defined in config.py. Feel free to adjust them if you find them too strict.

🔔 Notifications

To receive instant alerts via Telegram:

Create a Bot via BotFather and get your BOT_TOKEN.

Find your CHAT_ID (e.g., by messaging your bot and querying @userinfobot).

You can use this article to help you with this matter: https://andrewkushnerov.medium.com/how-to-send-notifications-to-telegram-with-python-9ea9b8657bfb

Run:

phisher --notify <CHAT_ID> <BOT_TOKEN> ...

📝 Logging & Output

TXT format (default):
Appends certificate details to domains.txt.

CSV format:
Outputs rows with columns like "Subject", "Issuer", "Serial No", "Version", "Not Before (UTC)", "Not After (UTC)".

Enable logging file creation with --log (otherwise, logging is disabled and only prints to console).