Data Service Usage

Quick Overview

The Data Service is the equivalent of Metasploit's Data Service: A HTTP service listening for requests, and transmitting them to a Database for processing.

Requests made to the service will add/delete/update entities such as

• workspaces,
• hosts, and soon...
• services,
• credentials,
• etc...

For this reason, the Data Service is needed in order to run the C2 Server and the Console. This is why it is placed in this order in the documentation.

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Usage

They are two ways to start the Data Service: as a systemd unit, or by executing the binary from the command line.

Everything that follows applies to both methods.

When running the Data Service for the first time, it will:

• Create a subdirectory data-service in the ~/.wiregost root directory (and this one if needed)
• Create a default config file in this directory.
• Create a wiregost_db PostgreSQL database, a wiregost user with password wiregost.
• Create a Certificate/Key Pair in the certs/ subdirectory. (Used for the HTTP Service)
• Migrate all DB Schemas to this wiregost_db database. (Automatic migration at each startup).

So, unless problems arise, you should just run the Data Service binary to setup everything.

Then, the service is listening on (default) port 8001, which you can change in the config file.

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Logging

If ran from the command line, all DB transactions are logged to the screen. With Systemd, run

journalctl -f -u wiregost-data.service