SeedSearch.py

A python tool that scans files in directories and subdirectories hunting BIP39 mnemonic seeds. It is part of the bigger project Anu₿itux: more info at https://anubitux.org.

Overview

It allows the user to provide a path and then scans all the files looking for sequencies of words that could be BIP39 mnemonic seeds. Then it checks if the found sequencies are valid mnemonic seeds and prints it in the output. With seedsearchpro.py, when seeds are found, users can decide if they want to derive addresses and check if the seeds have been used. At line 38 of seedsearchpro.py it is also possible to add a blockcypher API key to avoid reaching API limits

Warning

Running issued could be encountered due to APIs limits. To check only a few seeds that could be more valuable, use SeedCheck.py

Tutorial

Here you can see how the tool works.

Installation

The tool was tested in Ubuntu 20.04 with Python3.8 and Ubuntu 22.04 with Python3.10. I suggest tu run the tool in his own virtual environment. Python shoul be installed by default. If not so, update your repositories

sudo apt update

and type

sudo apt install python3

Then install pip, to easily install the dependencies

sudo apt install python3-pip

Now clone the github repository

git clone https://github.com/ASeriousMister/SeedSearch.py

and install python virtual environments

pip3 install virtualenv

Now move to SeedCheck.py's directory,

cd SeedCheck.py

create a virtual environment (in the example named scve, but you can choose your preferred name)

virtualenv ssve

and activate it

source ssve/bin/activate

The name of the virtual environment should appear, in brackets, on the left of your command line. Now you can install the dependencies

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Finally, you are ready to run the tool

python3 seedsearch.py -d /directory/to/scan

Sometimes pip may not install the packages listed in requirements.txt in the proper way. In this case, just install the missing package shown in the error message with

pip3 install {missing_package_name}

Supported derivations

The tool supports the following coins with the indicated derivation paths:

Bitcoin

• BIP39
  • m/44'/0'/0'/0
  • m/44'/0'/0'/0' (hardened addresses)
  • m/49'/0'/0'/0
  • m/49'/0'/0'/0' (hardened addresses)
  • m/84'/0'/0'/0
  • m/84'/0'/0'/0' (hardened addresses)
  • m/84'/00/2147483645'/0'/0 (Samourai wallet Premix)
  • m/84'/00/2147483646'/0'/0 (Samourai wallet Postmix)

Ethereum

• BIP39
  • m/44'/60'/0'/0
  • m/44'/60'/0'/0' (hardened addresses)

Litecoin

• BIP39
  • m/44'/2'/0'/0
  • m/44'/2'/0'/0' (hardened addresses)
  • m/49'/2'/0'/0
  • m/49'/2'/0'/0' (hardened addresses)
  • m/84'/2'/0'/0
  • m/84'/2'/0'/0' (hardened addresses)

Dash

• BIP39
  • m/44'/5'/0'/0
  • m/44'/5'/0'/0' (hardened addresses)

ZCash

• BIP39
  • m/44'/133'/0'/0
  • m/44'/133'/0'/0' (hardened addresses)

Read more

• BIPs
• HD wallet

Troubleshooting

The tool may encounter some issues running with Ubuntu 22.04, due to incompatibility with ripemd160 hashes used by the hdwallet library. To solve this you need to edit the /etc/ssl/openssl.cnf file, making sure that it contains all the following lines:

openssl_conf = openssl_init

[openssl_init]
providers = provider_sect

[provider_sect]
default = default_sect
legacy = legacy_sect

[default_sect]
activate = 1

[legacy_sect]
activate = 1

Disclaimer

SeedSearch.py aims to find seeds stored in files. Its cearch has not to be considered exhaustive, because mnemonic seeds can be easily hidden placed other words between the ones composing the mnemonic, scrambling letters, etc.

Credits & Donations

If you appreciate this work visit https://anubitux.org and consider making a donation

• BTC: 1AnUbiYpuFsGrc1JFxFCh5K9tXFd1BXPg
• XMR: 87PTU58siKNb3WWXcP4Hq4CmCb7kMQUsEiUWFT7SvvMMUqVw9XXFGrJZqmnGvuJLGtLoRuEqovTG4SWqkPr8YLopTSxZkkL