[ERROR] invalid byte sequence in UTF-8

[akast]

root@bt:/pentest/web/wpscan# ./wpscan.rb --url http://blog.mirrorbooks.com/wpmain/

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[ERROR] invalid byte sequence in UTF-8
Trace : ["/pentest/web/wpscan/lib/wpscan/wp_target.rb:87:in []'", "/pentest/web/wpscan/lib/wpscan/wp_target.rb:87:inwp_content_dir'", "./wpscan.rb:83:in `

'"]
root@bt:/pentest/web/wpscan#

root@bt:/pentest/web/wpscan# ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2dev (2010-07-02) [i486-linux]

root@bt:/pentest/web/wpscan# gem -v
1.3.7

root@bt:/pentest/web/wpscan# gem list

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

abstract (1.0.0)
actionmailer (3.0.6)
actionpack (3.0.6)
activemodel (3.0.6)
activerecord (3.0.6)
activeresource (3.0.6)
activesupport (3.0.6)
addressable (2.2.8)
ansi (1.4.3)
arel (2.0.9)
bson (1.5.2)
bson_ext (1.5.2)
builder (2.1.2)
bundler (1.1.5, 1.0.13)
childprocess (0.3.3)
daemons (1.1.9)
data_objects (0.10.8)
diff-lcs (1.1.2)
dm-core (1.2.0)
dm-do-adapter (1.2.0)
dm-migrations (1.2.0)
dm-sqlite-adapter (1.2.0)
do_sqlite3 (0.10.8)
em-resolv-replace (1.1.2)
em-websocket (0.3.8)
erubis (2.7.0, 2.6.6)
eventmachine (0.12.10)
factory_girl (1.3.3)
ffi (1.0.11)
fxruby (1.6.25)
hpricot (0.8.6)
http_configuration (1.0.4)
i18n (0.5.0)
jsmin (1.0.1)
json (1.7.5, 1.7.4, 1.6.5)
librex (0.0.68)
libwebsocket (0.1.3)
mail (2.2.19)
mime-types (1.19, 1.17.2, 1.16)
mini_exiftool (1.3.1)
mongo (1.5.2)
msfrpc-client (1.0.1)
msgpack (0.4.7)
multi_json (1.3.6)
mysql (2.8.1)
nokogiri (1.5.5, 1.4.4)
parseconfig (1.0.2)
polyglot (0.3.1)
rack (1.4.1, 1.2.2)
rack-mount (0.6.14)
rack-protection (1.2.0)
rack-test (0.5.7)
rails (3.0.6)
railties (3.0.6)
rake (0.8.7)
rchardet (1.3)
RedCloth (4.2.5)
rspec (2.5.0)
rspec-core (2.5.2)
rspec-expectations (2.5.0)
rspec-mocks (2.5.0)
rspec-rails (2.5.0)
rubyzip (0.9.6.1)
selenium-webdriver (2.24.0)
sinatra (1.3.2)
spider (0.4.4)
sqlite3-ruby (1.2.5)
term-ansicolor (1.0.7)
thin (1.4.1)
thor (0.14.6)
tilt (1.3.3)
treetop (1.4.9)
typhoeus (0.4.2, 0.3.3, 0.2.4)
tzinfo (0.3.27)
watobo (0.9.8.724)
xml-simple (1.1.1, 1.1.0)
zip (2.0.2)
root@bt:/pentest/web/wpscan#

[firefart]

Maybe this helps:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/8873922/256714

[erwanlr]

It seems to be a YAML issue, however as i was not able to install the latest version of rubygems on BT5r3 (even with gem install rubygems-update), i changed the serializer to Marshal

I would suggest BT5 users to use ruby with rvm, it's much easier, and there is not such odd errors

Btw, if the blog you scanned is yours, have a look there : http://safebrowsing.clients.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?client=Firefox&hl=en-US&site=http://blog.mirrorbooks.com/wpmain/