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+++ title = "GUI host lookup" description = "A basic GUI-application to look up security information about hosts (IP address, domain name, URL). Built also as a web app and CLI tool." weight = 1 updated = 2024-08-23 [extra] remote_image = "https://code.joostagterhoek.nl/joost/gui-host-lookup/media/branch/main/screenshot.png" +++

This is a 🐍 Python project to build a GUI application that aims to help a security operations center (SOC) analyst. You are able to enter a host (URL, IP address, email address) and look up security-relevant information. This includes:

  • 📧 DMARC and SPF information on domain names (also from URLs and email addresses).
  • ✍️ Generic domain registration information.

This is done with (among others) the following Python-modules:

module purpose usage
tkinter creating and managing Tk and Ttk widgets display graphical user interface
checkdmarc Python module for validating SPF and DMARC DNS records look up SPF and DMARC records