nox-project-nox-framework/CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to NOX are documented here.

[1.0.4] — 2026-04-22

Engine

• Fixed: _build_ssl_context — custom TLS context had zero CA certificates loaded, causing SSLCertVerificationError on all HTTPS connections. CA bundle now loaded via certifi with load_default_certs() fallback.
• Fixed: _NOISE_RE in reporting — ssl., aiohttp., asyncio. were substring-matched, silently zeroing legitimate emails and domains (e.g. user@ssl.example.com). Patterns now anchored to start-of-string or whitespace.
• Fixed: COMBO_RE in ScrapeEngine — multiline greedy match produced credentials with embedded newlines in email/password fields. Pattern now excludes newlines from both capture groups.
• Fixed: _in_flight dict in AvalancheScanner — entries were never removed after processing, causing unbounded memory growth on deep scans. Entry is now popped in the finally block after the future resolves.
• Fixed: DorkingEngine.__init__ — ProxyManager.get_proxies() was called eagerly on every Orchestrator instantiation, triggering a proxy fetch and OPSEC warning even for local-only commands (--crack, --list-sources, --analyze). Proxy fetch is now lazy.
• Fixed: ScrapeEngine._fetch_content — IntelX paste content fetch used DB.get_key("intelx") which does not read apikeys.json. Replaced with Vault.get("INTELX_API_KEY") for consistent key resolution.
• Fixed: AsyncSource._rec and RiskEngine.score — plugin confidence values were stored in NoxSourceProvider._confidence but never transferred to Record.source_confidence. All 124 plugin records received a flat 0.5 confidence regardless of their declared value. _rec() now injects self._confidence into the record; RiskEngine.score() uses record.source_confidence as fallback when the source is not in _SRC_CONFIDENCE.
• Fixed: ConfigManager.get_key — None results were cached, preventing env vars set after the first lookup from being detected in the same session. Only positive values are now cached.
• Fixed: Recursive Avalanche Engine — identifiers extracted from paste content (paste["patterns"]) were not being harvested as pivot seeds. All scrape_res["pastes"] pattern matches are now fed into _extract_ids_from_text.

Sources

• Fixed: circl_hashlookup — endpoint hardcoded to /lookup/md5/{target} but input_type=hash accepts SHA1/SHA256. SHA1 and SHA256 backup endpoints added; engine now routes each hash type to the correct path.
• Updated: crt_sh — reliability_score lowered from 5 to 3, is_volatile=true added to reflect documented intermittent availability.

[1.0.3] — 2026-04-15

Engine

• Fixed: Recursive Avalanche Engine — identifiers extracted from paste content (paste["patterns"]) were not being harvested as pivot seeds. Bare emails and other identifiers found in IntelX paste bodies that lacked a :password separator were silently dropped from the pivot queue. All scrape_res["pastes"] pattern matches are now fed into _extract_ids_from_text and reinjected consistently with credentials, telegram, and dork_misconfigs.

[1.0.2] — 2026-04-14

Sources

• Fixed: misp_search — MISP_URL added to api_key_slots so the instance base URL is resolved at runtime; health_check_url corrected from unresolvable placeholder to https://misp.local
• Fixed: threatconnect_search — removed unresolvable {TC_SIGNATURE} HMAC placeholder from the Authorization header; reliability_score lowered to 2, is_volatile set to true
• Fixed: spycloud_breach — endpoint corrected from breach/data/emails to breach/catalog/emails (standard breach lookup tier)
• Fixed: duckduckgo_api — primary instance updated to search.sapti.me; 5 backup SearXNG instances added to backup_endpoints (now consumed by the engine)
• Fixed: gravatar — endpoint now MD5-hashes the email before URL substitution via new query_transform: md5_lower field; raw email was returning 404 on every query
• Replaced: bgpview_ip → ripestat_ip (RIPE Stat prefix-overview API) — BGPView free API decommissioned January 2025; RIPE Stat is free, keyless, and stable (reliability_score: 5)
• Fixed: twitter_v2 — marked is_volatile=true, confidence lowered to 0.1; free-tier bearer tokens receive HTTP 403 since February 2024
• Fixed: fofa_info — qbase64 parameter now receives base64(domain="<target>") via query_transform: fofa_domain; raw domain was producing malformed queries
• Fixed: pipl_search — Pipl shut down public REST API in Q3 2024; reliability_score lowered to 2, confidence to 0.3, is_volatile=true
• Fixed: spyonweb — API confirmed unreachable; reliability_score lowered to 1, confidence to 0.1, is_volatile=true
• Fixed: hudsonrock_osint — is_volatile=true; rate_limit raised from 5.0 to 30.0 to respect Cavalier API throttling (~10 req/hour free tier)
• Fixed: mailboxlayer, numverify, ipstack, ipinfodb — endpoints and health_check_url migrated from http:// to https://; API keys were being transmitted in cleartext before the server-side redirect
• Added: xposedornot plugin (free, public breach analytics)
• Added: MISP_URL to service registry and apikeys.json — back-filled automatically on first run after upgrade
• Source count: 123 → 124

Config

• Fixed: Duplicate xposedornot entry removed from SERVICE_REGISTRY in config_handler.py

Engine

• Fixed: _parse_retry_after helper added — int() on an HTTP-date Retry-After header raised ValueError, causing the retry loop to abort as a hard failure; all 5 call sites in _get, _post, Session.get, and Session.post updated
• Fixed: _random_headers — Sec-CH-UA Client Hints were emitted even when a Firefox UA was passed via the extra override; guard now evaluates the final User-Agent after overrides are applied
• Fixed: HashEngine._hashmob — Hashmob API v2 changed request field from "hash" to "hashes" (array) and response schema from {found, result} to {data: [{plaintext}]}
• Fixed: DeHashEngine — both _lookup and the sync fallback were calling the deprecated /search (v1) endpoint; updated to /v2/search
• Fixed: DorkEngine.run — results were labelled with the requested engine name (google/bing/ddg) instead of SearXNG which is the actual backend; the 3× request multiplication (one pass per engine name, all hitting the same SearXNG pool) is eliminated
• Fixed: DB.close() — background event loop was stopped but never closed, leaving the loop object open on process exit
• Fixed: NoxSourceProvider._fetch — backup_endpoints defined in source plugins were parsed but never consumed; primary endpoint failure now falls through to backups in order
• Fixed: _local_crack_sync_blocking — hashlib.md5/sha1 now called with usedforsecurity=False to prevent hard crash on FIPS-enabled systems (RHEL 9, hardened Kali); Python 3.8 compat guard included

Codebase

• All internal tracking comments replaced with clean prose throughout nox.py, build_sources.py, and all helper modules

Build

• BUILD_DATE updated to 2026-04-14
• pyproject.toml version bumped to 1.0.2; requests minimum pin aligned to >=2.32.3

[1.0.1] — 2026-04-13

Sources

• Removed: cit0day (HTML fingerprint challenge, no JSON response), vigilante_pw (redirects to dehashed.com), scylla_sh_search (domain parked, permanently unreachable)
• Restored: proxynova_comb (live, returns valid JSON — was incorrectly removed)
• Fixed: leak_lookup now requires API key (LEAK_LOOKUP_API_KEY) — provider removed unauthenticated access
• Fixed: intelx_search two-phase poll implemented — plugin previously submitted the search job but never polled for results, returning 0 records for all queries
• Fixed: hudsonrock_osint missing User-Agent header added — endpoint returns 403 without a browser UA
• Removed: HASHES_API_KEY registry entry — hashes.org shut down in 2023; HASHES_COM_API_KEY is the correct active slot
• Added: LEAK_LOOKUP_API_KEY to service registry

Engine

• Fixed: bypass_required field in source plugins now enforced at runtime — sources declaring ["cloudflare"] bypass are skipped when curl_cffi is absent (previously the field was parsed but never read)
• Fixed: Guardian proxy auto-fetch updated to ProxyScrape v3 API (v2 deprecated Q1 2026); proxy-list.download replaced with proxifly free list

Dependencies

• Updated: requests>=2.32.3 (CVE fixes)

README

• Source count updated: 123 active plugins

Dependencies

• Updated: aiohttp minimum pin raised to >=3.13.5 (connection-pool stability fixes under high concurrency)
• Added: zstandard>=0.23.0 — enables native zstd decompression in aiohttp for Cloudflare/Fastly CDN responses

Engine

• Updated: Accept-Encoding header now includes zstd (gzip, deflate, br, zstd) to match Chrome 124+ behaviour

[1.0.1] — 2026-04-11

Sources

• Added 9 new sources: proxynova_comb (COMB breach search, free), shodan_internetdb (IP intel, free), circl_hashlookup (NSRL hash lookup, free), ipapi_is (IP geolocation, free), threatfox (abuse.ch IOC database), urlhaus (abuse.ch malware URLs), malwarebazaar (abuse.ch hash lookup), fullhunt_subdomains (attack surface), netlas_search (internet scanner)
• Removed 7 dead sources: threatcrowd_email, threatcrowd_domain (DNS dead), spyse_domain, spyse_ip (API shut down), hashes_org (DNS dead), leakstats_pw (DNS dead), checkleaked (endpoint gone)
• Fixed: dehashed endpoint migrated from /search to /v2/search
• Fixed: hudsonrock_osint endpoint corrected to search-by-email with input_type: email (was search-by-login with input_type: username)
• Fixed: scylla_sh_search migrated from dead scylla.sh to active scylla.so
• Fixed: emailrep_io now requires API key (EMAILREP_API_KEY) — free unauthenticated tier removed by provider
• Fixed: duckduckgo_api repurposed from dead DDG Instant Answer API to SearXNG JSON search

Engine

• Fixed: POST 429 Retry-After cap was 4s (should be 30s, matching GET path)
• Fixed: Linear retry backoff replaced with exponential backoff + jitter in all 4 retry paths (_get, _post, Session.get, Session.post)
• Fixed: --reset-sources now removes orphaned plugins from ~/.nox/sources/ in addition to copying new ones
• Fixed: DDG HTML scraper replaced with SearXNG JSON API across all call sites — DDG HTML endpoint bot-blocked since 2025
• Fixed: SearXNG instance pool updated: searx.be (403), search.bus-hit.me (DNS dead), searxng.site (SSL error) replaced with 6 active instances; pool extracted to module-level _SEARX_INSTANCES constant
• Fixed: All 11 dead paste site APIs removed from ScrapeEngine.PASTE_SITES; paste intelligence now routed through SearXNG dorks and IntelX

WAF Resilience

• Updated: User-Agent pool updated to Chrome/135, Firefox/136, Edge/135 (was Chrome/131, Firefox/133)
• Added: Sec-CH-UA, Sec-CH-UA-Mobile, Sec-CH-UA-Platform Client Hints headers for Chromium-based UAs
• Fixed: _CH_UA_MAP ordering — Edge UA now correctly gets "Microsoft Edge" brand (was getting "Google Chrome" due to dict iteration order)
• Fixed: _search() sync method no longer passes use_cloudscraper=True to SearXNG JSON API calls

Hash Cracking

• Removed 6 dead/paywalled cracker APIs: nitrxgen (DNS dead), hash.help (DNS dead), hashkiller (403), hashes.com free path (404), md5decrypt (403), cmd5 (paywalled — returns CMD5-ERROR:-1 for all hashes)
• Added: Local rockyou wordlist as primary crack path (no external calls, no rate limits, no data leakage)
• Added: hashes.com keyed API as external fallback (HASHES_COM_API_KEY)

Dependencies

• Added: brotli>=1.1.0 — required for aiohttp to decompress br-encoded responses

Config

• Added 7 new API key slots: EMAILREP_API_KEY, HASHES_COM_API_KEY, THREATFOX_API_KEY, URLHAUS_API_KEY, MALWAREBAZAAR_API_KEY, FULLHUNT_API_KEY, NETLAS_API_KEY

[1.0.0] — 2026-04-02

Initial Release

• 124 Pydantic v2-validated JSON source plugins across breach, network, OSINT, and threat-intel categories
• Fully async execution engine (asyncio + aiohttp) with JA3 TLS fingerprinting and per-request jitter
• --autoscan pipeline: breach scan → recursive identity pivot (depth 2) → Google/DDG dorking → paste/Telegram scraping
• --fullscan: breach scan + pivot only
• --scan / REPL scan: breach sources only
• Guardian Proxy Engine: automatic proxy rotation with fail-safe kill-switch
• Risk scoring engine (0–100) with time-decay, source confidence weighting, persistence multipliers, and HVT detection
• Recursive Avalanche Engine: every discovered asset re-injected as a new scan seed across breach, dork, and scrape concurrently
• Union-Find identity clustering across all breach records
• Forensic PDF/HTML/JSON/CSV/Markdown reporting with Executive Summary dashboard
• Hash identification and multi-engine cracking (dictionary + mutations + online rainbow tables)
• Deep password strength analysis with entropy, leet-speak detection, and crack-time estimates
• Interactive REPL with full feature parity with the CLI
• Full audit logging: all scan events mirrored to ~/.nox/logs/nox.log
• Isolated .deb packaging for Kali Linux (PEP 668 compliant — zero system pollution)
• ~/.config/nox-cli/apikeys.json credential store (chmod 0600)