discovered 30 Mar 2026

awesome-censys-queries

Python ★ 1212 via github-topic

AI Summary: Awesome Censys Queries is a curated collection of unique and diverse queries intended for use with the Censys search engine, facilitating the exploration of various network services and devices. Its primary use case is to aid security researchers and network administrators in identifying and analyzing infrastructure, particularly in areas like industrial control systems, IoT devices, and database services. Notable features include organized categories for easy navigation, direct links to search results, and contributions from the community for expanding query resources.

README

Awesome Censys Queries

A collection of fascinating and bizarre Censys Search queries.

Contributing

Found an awesome query? Submit it here

Interested in contributing in another way? See the contributing guidelines

Resources

Censys Search
CensysGPT Beta - AI Generated Queries
Legacy Search Queries - For queries compatible with the legacy Censys search syntax

Key

🔎 → - This icon will take you to the Censys Search results page for the query.

Industrial Control Systems
Internet of Things Devices
Security Applications
Databases
Dashboards
Game Servers
Media Servers
Random Services
Advanced Queries

Credits
License
Star History

Industrial Control Systems

Industrial Control System Protocols 🔎 →

services.service_name: {BACNET, CODESYS, EIP, FINS, FOX, IEC60870_5_104, S7, MODBUS}

Prismview (Samsung Electronic Billboards) 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "Prismview" or services.http.response.headers.server: "Prismview Player"

Screenshot

Gas Station Pump Controllers (ATGs) 🔎 →

(same_service(port: 10001 and banner: "IN-TANK INVENTORY") or services.service_name: ATG) and services.truncated: false

Pro-Tip: Add services.truncated: false to your query to exclude honeypots (Hosts with 100+ services).

Screenshot

Electric Vehicle Chargers 🔎 →

same_service(http.response.headers.server: "gSOAP/2.8" and http.response.headers.content_length: 583)

Carel PlantVisor 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "CAREL Pl@ntVisor"

References

https://www.carel.com/product/plantvisor

C4 Max Vehicle GPS 🔎 →

services.banner: "[1m[35mWelcome on console"

References

https://wiki.neweagle.net/ProductDocumentation/Telematics/C4MAX_datasheet.pdf

GaugeTech Electricity Meters 🔎 →

services.http.response.headers.server: "EIG Embedded Web Server"

Screenshot

XZERES Wind Turbines 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "XZERES Wind"

Note: This query works best with virtual hosts included.

Screenshot

Nordex Wind Turbine Farms 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Nordex Control" or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.domain_component: "NORDEX-AG"

References

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-alerts/ics-alert-10-307-01

Saferoads VMS Signs 🔎 →

services.software: (vendor: "Saferoads" and product: "VMS")

References

https://www.saferoads.com.au/zone-vms

Internet of Things Devices

Roombas 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.common_name: "Roomba CA"

Mein Automowers 🔎 →

services.http.response.headers.Www_Authenticate: `Basic realm= "Mein Automower (Robonect Hx+)"`

WinAQMS Environmental Monitor 🔎 →

services.banner: "WinAQMS Data Server" and services.truncated: false

Emerson Site Supervisor 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Emerson Site Supervisor"

Screenshot

References

https://www.emerson.com/en-us/site-supervisor-5385648A

Brightsign Digital Sign 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "'BrightSign&reg;"

Elnet Power Meters 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.headers.Server="CAL1.0" and services.http.response.status_code: 200)

Screenshot

References

http://www.elnet.cc/

Nethix Wireless Controller 🔎 →

services.http.response.headers.set_cookie: "NethixSession"

References

https://nethix.com/en/

Compromised Mikrotik Router 🔎 →

services.service_name: MIKROTIK_BW and services.pptp.hostname: "HACKED"

References

https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/over-300000-mikrotik-devices-found.html

Security Applications

Cobalt Strike Servers 🔎 →

services.certificate: {
    "64257fc0fac31c01a5ccd816c73ea86e639260da1604d04db869bb603c2886e6",
    "87f2085c32b6a2cc709b365f55873e207a9caa10bffecf2fd16d3cf9d94d390c"
}
or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.common_name: "Major Cobalt Strike"
or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "Major Cobalt Strike"

Metasploit Servers 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Metasploit" and (
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization: "Rapid7"
    or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "MetasploitSelfSignedCA"
)
or services.jarm.fingerprint: {
    "07d14d16d21d21d00042d43d000000aa99ce74e2c6d013c745aa52b5cc042d",
    "07d14d16d21d21d07c42d43d000000f50d155305214cf247147c43c0f1a823"
}

Nessus Scanner Servers 🔎 →

services.http.response.headers.server: "NessusWWW"
or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organizational_unit: "Nessus Server"

NTOP Network Analyzers 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Welcome to ntopng"
or same_service(
    services.http.response.html_title: "Global Traffic Statistics"
    and services.http.response.headers.server: "ntop/*"
)

Merlin C2 🔎 →

services.jarm.fingerprint: "29d21b20d29d29d21c41d21b21b41d494e0df9532e75299f15ba73156cee38"

References

https://github.com/Ne0nd0g/merlin

Mythic C2 🔎 →

same_service(port: 7443 and tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization: "Mythic")

Note: When using the same_service operator, the initial services. prefix is optional.

References

Deimos C2 🔎 →

services.jarm.fingerprint: "00000000000000000041d00000041d9535d5979f591ae8e547c5e5743e5b64"

References

https://github.com/DeimosC2/DeimosC2

Covenant C2 🔎 →

same_service(
    http.response.body: {"Blazor", "covenant.css"}
    and tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.common_name: "Covenant"
)

References

https://github.com/cobbr/Covenant

PoshC2 🔎 →

same_service(
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name="P18055077" and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.province="Minnesota" and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.locality="Minnetonka" and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization="Pajfds" and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organizational_unit="Jethpro"
)

References

https://github.com/nettitude/PoshC2

Sliver C2 🔎 →

same_service(
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.pubkey_bit_size: 2048 and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization: /(ACME|Partners|Tech|Cloud|Synergy|Test|Debug)? ?(co|llc|inc|corp|ltd)?/ and
    services.jarm.fingerprint: 3fd21b20d00000021c43d21b21b43d41226dd5dfc615dd4a96265559485910 and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.country: US and
    services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.postal_code: /<1001-9999>/
)

Note: This search uses regex and requires a paid account. Pro-Tip: Try removing JARM to find even more Sliver instances.

References

https://github.com/BishopFox/sliver

EvilGinx2 🔎 →

services.jarm.fingerprint: "20d14d20d21d20d20c20d14d20d20daddf8a68a1444c74b6dbe09910a511e6"

References

https://github.com/kgretzky/evilginx2

Brute Ratel C4 🔎 →

services.http.response.body_hash="sha1:1a279f5df4103743b823ec2a6a08436fdf63fe30"

References

https://bruteratel.com

Empire C2 🔎 →

same_service(
    services.http.response.body_hash: {"sha1:bc517bf173440dad15b99a051389fadc366d5df2", "sha1:dcb32e6256459d3660fdc90e4c79e95a921841cc"}
    and services.http.response.headers.expires: 0
    and services.http.response.headers.cache_control: "*"
)

References

https://bc-security.gitbook.io/empire-wiki/

Raccoon Stealer V2 (RecordBreaker C2) 🔎 →

services.banner_hashes: "sha256:7987d0c39c4839572ab88c6d82da01395f74e0c31f12d94c58d0e1bed0b0c75c"

References

https://twitter.com/1zrr4h/status/1593377638504087553

NimPlant C2 🔎 →

services.http.response.headers.Server: "NimPlant C2 Server" or services.http.response.body_hashes: "sha256:636d68bd1bc19d763de95d0a6406f4f77953f9973389857353ac445e2b6fff87"

References

RedGuard 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject_dn: "C=CN, L=HangZhou, O=Alibaba (China) Technology Co.\\, Ltd., CN=\*.aliyun.com"

References

AsyncRAT 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "AsyncRAT Server"

References

https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

BitRAT 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "BitRAT"

References

https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

OrcusRAT 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: {"Orcus Server", "OrcusServerCertificate"}

References

https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

QuasarRAT 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: {"Anony96", "Quasar Server CA"}

References

https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

NanoCore 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "unk"

References

https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

DcRat 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.common_name: "DcRat Server"

References

https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

Deimos C2 🔎 →

same_service((services.http.response.html_title="Deimos C2" or services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization="Acme Co") and services.port: 8443)

References

Posh C2 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject_dn: "C=US, ST=Minnesota, L=Minnetonka, O=Pajfds, OU=Jethpro, CN=P18055077"

References

IcedID Banking Trojan 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject_dn: "CN=localhost, C=AU, ST=Some-State, O=Internet Widgits Pty Ltd"

References

Gozi Malware 🔎 →

services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer_dn: "C=XX, ST=1, L=1, O=1, OU=1, CN=\*"

References

https://www.trendmicro.com/content/dam/trendmicro/global/en/research/21/i/ssl-tls-technical-brief/ssl-tls-technical-brief.pdf

Pupy RAT C2 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.headers.Etag="\"aa3939fc357723135870d5036b12a67097b03309\"" and services.http.response.headers.Server="nginx/1.13.8") or same_service(services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.issuer.organization:/[a-zA-Z]{10}/ and  services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organization:/[a-zA-Z]{10}/ and services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject.organizational_unit="CONTROL")

Note: This search uses regex and requires a paid account.

References

https://github.com/n1nj4sec/pupy

Responder Server 🔎 →

services.banner="HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized\r\nServer: Microsoft-IIS/7.5\r\nDate:  <REDACTED>\r\nContent-Type: text/html\r\nWWW-Authenticate: NTLM\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\n"

References

Titan Stealer C2 🔎 →

services.http.response.body: "Titan Stealer"

References

https://twitter.com/BushidoToken/status/1633458241421320192

Open Directory Listing Host with Suspicious File Names in their Contents 🔎 →

same_service(
    (services.http.response.html_title:"Index of /" or services.http.response.html_title:"Directory Listing for /")
    and services.http.response.body: /.*?(cve|metasploit|cobaltstrike|sliver|covenant|brc4|brute-ratel|commander-runme|bruteratel|ps2exe|(badger|shellcode|sc|beacon|artifact|payload|teamviewer|anydesk|mimikatz|cs|rclone)\.(exe|ps1|vbs|bin|nupkg)).*/
)

Note: This search uses regex and requires a paid account.

Splunk 🔎 →

services.software.product: "Splunk"

References

https://www.splunk.com

Databases

Exposed CouchDB Servers 🔎 →

services.http.response.body: '"couchdb": "Welcome"'

References

https://couchdb.apache.org/

Dashboards

cAdvisor Dashboards 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.html_title=`cAdvisor - /` and services.http.response.status_code=200 and services.http.request.uri="*/containers/")

References

https://github.com/google/cadvisor

HashiCorp Consul Dashboards 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.html_title=`Consul by HashiCorp` and services.http.request.uri: "*/ui/")

References

https://www.consul.io/

Netdata Dashboards 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.headers.Server="Netdata Embedded HTTP*" and services.http.response.html_title="netdata dashboard")

References

https://www.netdata.cloud/

Rancher Dashboards 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.headers.unknown.name: "X-Rancher-Version" and services.http.response.html_title: "Loading&hellip;")

Traefik Dashboards 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.request.uri: "*/dashboard/" and services.http.response.html_title: "Traefik")

References

https://github.com/traefik/traefik

Weave Scope 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.html_title: "Weave Scope" and services.http.response.body="*WEAVEWORKS_CSRF*")

References

https://www.weave.works/oss/scope/

Coolify 🔎 →

services: (port: 8000 and services.http.response.html_title: "Coolify")

References

https://coolify.io/

Game Servers

Counter-Strike Gameservers 🔎 →

same_service(banner: "Counter-Strike" and service_name: VALVE)

FiveM 🔎 →

services: (port: 30120 and http.response.headers: (key: "Location" and value.headers: "https://cfx.re/join/*"))

Minecraft Servers 🔎 →

services.service_name: "MINECRAFT"

Media Servers

Plex Media Server 🔎 →

services.software.vendor: "Plex"

References

https://plex.tv/

Jellyfin Media Server 🔎 →

services.software.vendor: "Jellyfin"

References

https://jellyfin.org/

MythWeb 🔎 →

services.http.request.uri: "mythweb"

Screenshot

References

https://github.com/MythTV/mythweb

Random Services

Hosts emitting GNSS payloads 🔎 →

services.banner: "$GPRMC"

Directory Listing 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Index of /"

Swagger UI 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Swagger UI - "

Screenshot

References

https://swagger.io/tools/swagger-ui/

Mongo Express Admin Interface 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "Home - Mongo Express"

References

https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express

shell2http 🔎 →

services.http.response.html_title: "shell2http"

Busybox Shells 🔎 →

same_service(services.banner: "Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands" and services.service_name: TELNET) and services.truncated: false

Screenshot

Unauthenticated Redis Servers 🔎 →

services.redis.ping_response: "PONG"

Misconfigured Kubernetes Installations 🔎 →

services.kubernetes.pod_names: *

Misconfigured WordPress 🔎 →

services.http.response.body: "The wp-config.php creation script uses this file"

Unconfigured AdGuard 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.html_title: "Setup AdGuard Home" and services.http.request.uri="*/install.html")

References

https://adguard.com/en/welcome.html

Prometheus Node Exporters 🔎 →

same_service(services.http.response.html_title: "node exporter" and services.http.response.body: "/metrics")

VictoriaMetrics Agent 🔎 →

services.http.response.body: "<h2>vmagent</h2>"

Screenshot

References

https://docs.victoriametrics.com/vmagent.html

SonarQube 🔎 →

same_service(http.response.html_title: "SonarQube" and http.response.status_code: 200 and http.response.protocol: "HTTP/1.1")

References

https://www.sonarqube.org/

Advanced Queries

IPv6 Hosts 🔎 →

ip:"2001::/3"

Honeypots Hosts 🔎 →

services.truncated: true

North Korean Hosts 🔎 →

location.country: "North Korea"

Hosts that identify as US government or military 🔎 →

dns.names: *.gov or dns.names: *.mil or name: *.gov or name: *.mil

Services Listening on 53 that are not DNS 🔎 →

same_service(services.port: 53 and not services.service_name: DNS) and services.truncated: false

Alternative syntax without the services. prefix inside the same_service function:

same_service(port: 53 and not service_name: DNS) and services.truncated: false


#### Non-Standard Services Listening on Common Ports [🔎 &#x2192;](https://search.censys.io/search?resource=hosts&q=same_service%28services.port%3A+%7B21%2C+22%2C+80%7D+and+not+services.service_name%3A+%7BHTTP%2C+SSH%2C+FTP%2C+UNKNOWN%7D%29+and+services.truncated%3A+false&ref=awesome-censys-queries)

```dsl
same_service(services.port: {21, 22, 80} and not services.service_name: {HTTP, SSH, FTP, UNKNOWN}) and services.truncated: false

Services Listening on Port 22 that are not SSH 🔎 →

same_service(services.port: 22 and not services.service_name: {SSH} and not services.banner: {"Connection refused", "SSH-", "Exceeded MaxStartups", "Too many users", "Connection closed by server"}) and services.truncated: false

Services Listening on 80 or 443 that are not HTTP or HTTPS (or UNKNOWN with TLS) 🔎 →

not same_service(services.port: 443 and services.name: UNKNOWN and services.tls.certificates.leaf_data.subject_dn: *) and same_service(services.port: {80, 443} and not services.service_name: {KUBERNETES, ANYCONNECT, OPENVPN, HTTP} and not services.banner: "HTTP/") and services.truncated: false

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Industrial Control Systems

Industrial Control System Protocols 🔎 →

Prismview (Samsung Electronic Billboards) 🔎 →

Gas Station Pump Controllers (ATGs) 🔎 →

Electric Vehicle Chargers 🔎 →

Carel PlantVisor 🔎 →

C4 Max Vehicle GPS 🔎 →

GaugeTech Electricity Meters 🔎 →

XZERES Wind Turbines 🔎 →

Nordex Wind Turbine Farms 🔎 →

Saferoads VMS Signs 🔎 →

Internet of Things Devices

Roombas 🔎 →

Mein Automowers 🔎 →

WinAQMS Environmental Monitor 🔎 →

Emerson Site Supervisor 🔎 →

Brightsign Digital Sign 🔎 →

Elnet Power Meters 🔎 →

Nethix Wireless Controller 🔎 →

Compromised Mikrotik Router 🔎 →

Security Applications

Cobalt Strike Servers 🔎 →

Metasploit Servers 🔎 →

Nessus Scanner Servers 🔎 →

NTOP Network Analyzers 🔎 →

Merlin C2 🔎 →

Mythic C2 🔎 →

Deimos C2 🔎 →

Covenant C2 🔎 →

PoshC2 🔎 →

Sliver C2 🔎 →

EvilGinx2 🔎 →

Brute Ratel C4 🔎 →

Empire C2 🔎 →

Raccoon Stealer V2 (RecordBreaker C2) 🔎 →

NimPlant C2 🔎 →

RedGuard 🔎 →

AsyncRAT 🔎 →

BitRAT 🔎 →

OrcusRAT 🔎 →

QuasarRAT 🔎 →

NanoCore 🔎 →

DcRat 🔎 →

Deimos C2 🔎 →

Posh C2 🔎 →

IcedID Banking Trojan 🔎 →

Gozi Malware 🔎 →

Pupy RAT C2 🔎 →

Responder Server 🔎 →

Titan Stealer C2 🔎 →

Open Directory Listing Host with Suspicious File Names in their Contents 🔎 →

Splunk 🔎 →

Databases

Exposed CouchDB Servers 🔎 →

Dashboards

cAdvisor Dashboards 🔎 →

HashiCorp Consul Dashboards 🔎 →

Netdata Dashboards 🔎 →

Rancher Dashboards 🔎 →

Traefik Dashboards 🔎 →

Weave Scope 🔎 →

Coolify 🔎 →

Game Servers

Counter-Strike Gameservers 🔎 →

FiveM 🔎 →

Minecraft Servers 🔎 →

Media Servers

Plex Media Server 🔎 →

Jellyfin Media Server 🔎 →

MythWeb 🔎 →

Random Services

Hosts emitting GNSS payloads 🔎 →

Directory Listing 🔎 →