This is a fork of 0x4D31/burpa.

The original repo seemed abandonned, but I would be happy to merge back the changes to upstream version!

burpa: Burp Automator

A Burp Suite Automation Tool.

It provides a high level CLI and Python interfaces to Burp Suite scanner and can be used to setup Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST).

It will use the official REST API to launch the scan, and the burp-rest-api to get the pretty HTML report.

Requirements

• Burp Suite Professional v2.0 or greater.

• Install and launch burp-rest-api third party extension.

• Enable the Official Burp Suite Professional REST API. Both the extension and the official REST APIs must be enabled.

  • You can do so by laucnhing the burp-rest-api with --headless=false --unpause-spider-and-scanner options, enable the REST API under User Options > Misc > REST API. Export the config files, both project level (under Project > Project options > Save) and user level (under Burp > User options > Save), and use them to launch the burp-rest-api with options --config-file and --user-config-file.

What changed

• burpa is now an actual package that can be installed with pip install ..
• Slack support has been removed.
• burpa is now callable with python3 -m burpa.
• Add static type checking.
• Add support for interfacing with the Burp Official REST API: This allows to run authenticated scans.
• Use python-fire to generate the CLI.
• Publish the API documentation.
• Can load Burp configuration fron environment variables and automatically read .env files in the source directory tree with python-dotenv.

Configuration

Burpa must be configured with the Burp Suite URL and related config values. You can pass those values as argument with flags --api-url, --api-port, --new-api-url, --new-api-port and --new-api-key or by setting the following environment variables:

export BURP_API_URL=""
export BURP_API_PORT=""
export BURP_NEW_API_URL=""
export BURP_NEW_API_PORT=""
export BURP_NEW_API_KEY=""

Examples:

• Scan two URLs

  $ burpa scan http://mysite.com http://mysite2.com --report-output-dir ./burp-reports/
  

• Scan URLs from a list

  $ burpa scan ./mysites.txt --report-output-dir ./burp-reports/
  

• Scan with username/password authentication

  $ burpa scan http://mysite.com --report-output-dir ./burp-reports/ --app-user=user --app-pass=p@assw0rd
  

• Shutdown the Burp Suite and wait 120 seconds for the service to restart.

  $ burpa stop
  $ burpa test --wait 120
  

  You can use systemctl or supervisord (Linux) or NSSM (Windows) to automatically restart the burp-rest-api when it stopped running. This seem to be the only way to reset the scanner to a clean state (ref).

Note

If your URL points to a filename, burpa will automatically add the containing directory to the list of seed URLs for the scan. Scanning http://mysite.com/subfolder/mypage.html?my=1#123 will result into scanning http://mysite.com/subfolder/mypage.html?my=1#123 and http://mysite.com/subfolder.

Python library

API Reference

CLI Test

$ burpa scan http://10.1.1.1:8080/WebGoat --report-output-dir /tmp/burp-reports/
           __                          
           / /_  __  ___________  ____ _
          / __ \/ / / / ___/ __ \/ __ `/
         / /_/ / /_/ / /  / /_/ / /_/ / 
        /_.___/\__,_/_/  / .___/\__,_/  
                        /_/             
         burpa version 0.3.0.dev 

INFO - Loading .env file /home/runner/.env
INFO - http://10.1.1.1:8080/WebGoat has been included to the scope
INFO - Initiating unauthenticated scan...
INFO - http://10.1.1.1:8080/WebGoat Added to the scan queue, ID 3
INFO - Scan started
INFO - Scan status: crawling
INFO - Scan status: auditing
INFO - Scan status: succeeded
INFO - Scan completed
INFO - Scan metrics for http://10.1.1.1:8080/WebGoat :
INFO - CRAWL_REQUESTS_MADE = 3
INFO - CRAWL_NETWORK_ERRORS = 0
INFO - CRAWL_UNIQUE_LOCATIONS_VISITED = 1
INFO - CRAWL_REQUESTS_QUEUED = 0
INFO - AUDIT_QUEUE_ITEMS_COMPLETED = 2
INFO - AUDIT_QUEUE_ITEMS_WAITING = 0
INFO - AUDIT_REQUESTS_MADE = 644
INFO - AUDIT_NETWORK_ERRORS = 2
INFO - ISSUE_EVENTS = 13
INFO - CRAWL_AND_AUDIT_CAPTION = Audit finished.
INFO - CRAWL_AND_AUDIT_PROGRESS = 100
INFO - Scan issues for http://10.1.1.1:8080/WebGoat :
INFO - Issue: Robots.txt file, Severity: Information
INFO - Issue: Backup file, Severity: Information
INFO - Issue: Cookie without HttpOnly flag set, Severity: Information
INFO - Issue: Strict transport security not enforced, Severity: Low
INFO - Issue: TLS cookie without secure flag set, Severity: Information
INFO - Issue: Cacheable HTTPS response, Severity: Information
INFO - Issue: TLS certificate, Severity: Information
INFO - Downloading HTML/XML report for http://10.1.1.1:8080/WebGoat
INFO - Scan report saved to /tmp/burp-reports/burp-report_20210317-163223_http10.1.1.18080WebGoat.html

Manual

burpa [COMMAND]

  --api-url=API_URL
    Burp Suite REST API Extension URL. Environment variable: 'BURP_API_URL'.
  --api-port=API_PORT
      Burp REST API Extension Port (default: 8090). Environment variable: 'BURP_API_PORT'.
  --new-api-url=NEW_API_URL
      Burp Suite Official REST API URL (default: Same as api_url). Environment variable: 'BURP_NEW_API_URL'.
  --new-api-port=NEW_API_PORT
      Burp Suite Official REST API Port (default: 1337). Environment variable: 'BURP_NEW_API_PORT'.
  --new-api-key=NEW_API_KEY
      Burp Suite Official REST API key. Environment variable: 'BURP_NEW_API_KEY'.
  --verbose
      Be more verbose, prints complete trace on errors and debug API parameters. 
  --quiet
      Be less verose, only print on errors.
  --no-banner
      Do not print burpa banner.

burpa report <flags> [TARGETS]...

  Generate the reports for the specified targets URLs. 
  If targets is 'all', generate a report that contains all issues for all targets.

  --report_type=REPORT_TYPE
  --report_output_dir=REPORT_OUTPUT_DIR
  --issue_severity=ISSUE_SEVERITY[,ISSUE_SEVERITY,...]
  --issue_confidence=ISSUE_CONFIDENCE[,ISSUE_CONFIDENCE,...]
  --csv

burpa scan <flags> [TARGETS]...

  Launch an active scan, wait until the end and report the results.

  --report_type=REPORT_TYPE
      Burp scan report type. Valid values are XML or HTML (default: HTML). Use 'none' to skip reporting.
  --report_output_dir=REPORT_OUTPUT_DIR
      Directory to store the reports. Store report in temp directory if empty.
  --excluded=EXCLUDED
      Commas separated values of the URLs to exclude from the scope of the scan.
  --config=CONFIG
      Commas separated values of the scan configuration(s) names to apply.
  --config_file=CONFIG_FILE
      Commas separated values of the scan configuration(s) JSON file to read and apply.
  --app_user=APP_USER
      Application username for authenticated scans.
  --app_pass=APP_PASS
      Application password for authenticated scans
  --issue_severity=ISSUE_SEVERITY[,ISSUE_SEVERITY,...]
      Severity of the scan issues to be included in the report. Acceptable values are All, High, Medium, Low and Information. Multiple values are also accepted if they are comma-separated.
  --issue_confidence=ISSUE_CONFIDENCE[,ISSUE_CONFIDENCE,...]
      Confidence of the scan issues to be included in the report. Acceptable values are All, Certain, Firm and Tentative. Multiple values are also accepted if they are comma-separated.
  --csv
      Whether to generate a CSV summary with all issues.

burpa schedule <flags> [TARGETS]...

  Launch Burp Suite scans between certain times only.

  --begin_time=BEGIN_TIME
      At what time to start the scans. (Default "22:00")
  --end_time=END_TIME
      At what time to end the scans. Running scans will finish after the end time. (Default "05:00")
  --workers=WORKERS
      How many asynchronous scans to launch.
  
  And other 'burpa scan' arguments.

burpa stop <flags>

  Shut down the Burp Suite. You can use systemctl or supervisord (Linux) or 
  NSSM (Windows) to automatically restart the Burp Suite Service when it stopped running.

  --wait=WAIT
      If other burpa processes running, number of seconds to wait until all the running scans ends.
  --force
      Stop Burp even if scans are running.

burpa test <flags>

  Test if burpa can connect to Burp Suite REST APIs.

  --wait=WAIT
      Number of seconds to wait until the Burp REST APIs are accessible.

burpa version

  Print burpa version and exit.

Look at python-fire documentation to have a better understanding of how python-fire generated CLI works.

Related

• https://github.com/laconicwolf/Burp-API-Scripts
• https://github.com/joanbono/Gurp
• https://github.com/pentestgeek/burpcommander