Shodan

#1. Finding websites that use similar favicon.ico

This is useful for identifying phishing websites as they generally clone your custom favicon.ico file. Shodan provides a search filter (signed-in users only) for searching specific favicon.ico files. This is done by first converting the favicon.ico file into a hash value and this hash value is queried in the Shodan database. The following is the search filter:

http.favicon.hash:<hash-of-favicon.ico>
  1. favscan

The favscan tool provided in the above blog does not work correctly at the time of writing this article [18/01/2024].

Download links provided in Blog

  1. get_favicon_hash.py

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