Information Gathering, or how to gather information from remote systems and.
This phase, is very useful in an approach for example with the penetration-test.
Let's say that before attacking, need to know “What's behind”, and this stage allows us to gather a wealth of information, come email, telephone numbers, or other useful also for conducting a social attack.
In backTrack, are placed in this category, Numbers Software, I, I have selected some.
I'm not saying that others do not go well, rather , but I can not talk about 30 tool :D
- theHarvester, Email, User names and Subdomain/Hostnames finder[presente in backtrack]
- Maltego 2[presente in backtrack]
- Fierce Domain Scan
- httprint is a web server fingerprinting tool. [presente in backtrack]
- DirBuster
We start from the first: theHarvester, Email, User names and Subdomain/Hostnames finder.
This simple tool, python found in backtrack, with the name of goog email enum.
This tool, as from the description, allows to find:
- Email;
- User names;
- Subdomain/Hostnames;
Leveraging google, or other search services such as linklin or bing ;)
Let's see how to use it.
I put the package on my website to facilitate any change of address ;)
We open our console :D
wget http://www.clshack.com/nopaste/theHarvester-1.6.tar
tar -xvf theHar*.tar
cd theH*
Well now we type, per un help:
python theHarvester.py
Example:
python theHarvester.py -d SITO_DA_CERCARE -l 100 -b bing
I used bing, because I know that I required the google captcha, I have found no human :)
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