Information Gathering is the very first step a hacker follows. Indeed, during this critical phase, the auditor collects as much data as possible about the target. It enables to validate or reject hypothesis, map the target network and have a precise idea of the infrastructure to better target the tests of next phases.
INFORMATION GATHERING - SOFTWARE'S / TOOLS / UTILITIES
- Search Engines
- Online Services
- Network Scanner
- DNS
- Log Analyst
- Honeypot
- Routing
- Admin Page Finder
- Flash and Flex
- Mail Tracers
- Mail Harvesting
- Metadata Harvesting
- Bing-ip2hosts
- Binging
- Creepy
- Gggooglescan
- GoogleHacker
- Goorecon
- Gooscan
- Maltego
- Metagoofil
- Scroogle
- Search Engine Assessment Toolkit (SEAT)
- SiteDigger
- Subdomainer
- Yeti
- GoogleDiggity
- 4dnstools.com
- DnsStuff.com
- DnsTools.com
- Mxtoolbox.com
- Network-Tools.com
- robtex.com
- Shodan
- Nmap
- Port check
- Open Port Finder
- Adhoc-IP Tools
- who.is
- ipcalc.org
- domxssscanner.com
- vTrace
- NetworkMiner
- Unicornscan
- TripWire
- dradis
- pbnj
- smtprc
- Network Spoofer
- Trout
- SNScan
- ScanLine
- DnsEnum
- Dnsmap
- Dnsrecon
- DnsTracer
- Dns-Walk
- Fierce
- FindDomains
- HostMap
- Lynis
- OpenMR
- RATS
- URLcrazy
- CookieDigger
- AdSuck DNS Server 2.4.1
- Dnsgoblin
- Active Whois
- URLDIGGER
- ritx
- Logcheck
- Argos
- Honeyd
- Google Hack Honeypot
- Single-honeypot
- Fake AP
- phoneyc
- 0trace
- Itrace
- Lanmap2
- Nat Probe
- Netenum
- Netmask
- NMBscan
- Protos
- Tctrace
- TCPtraceroute
- IRPAS
- Admin Page Finder Script
- Deblaze
- Emailtrackerpro
- Samspade
- GEO Spider
- Magic Netrace
- 3d Visual Tracer
- theHarvester
- Spamhol
- FOCA
- OOMetaExtractor