elementals

Python package with basic utilities for CTF scripts (works well for exploit PoCs too).

Install

pip install elementals

Read The Docs

https://elementals.readthedocs.io/

Brief

The elementals python package is a utility package with handy tools for CTF scripts and PoC-style scripts. What was first implemented for personal use in small research scripts was now upgraded to be used by security researchers as a lightweight substitute to the famous pwntools package.

The features included in elementals are:

• Logger: Basic (logging based) logger - configured and ready to use
• Prompter: Metasploit based stdout wrapper for the logger
• ProgressBar: User-friendly graphical progress bar
• StatusBar: User-friendly graphical status bar
• createAnchor: Creates a time-stamped output directory for all script outputs
• hexDump: Stylized hex dump for binary blobs / strings

Here is a screenshot from an example script with most of the features: And here is the log that is stored behind the scenes: Example of the hexDump()'s output:

Used by

The elementals package is used in most of my scripts and also in my public Github projects:

• Scout Debugger - https://github.com/CheckPointSW/Scout
• Karta (IDA Plugin) - https://github.com/CheckPointSW/Karta

References

• Twitter: @EyalItkin
• E-mail: eyal dot itkin at gmail dot com