Perform Whois Lookup using DomainTools Here, we will gather target information by performing Whois lookup using DomainTools Open Mozilla Firefox. In the address bar of the browser place your mouse cursor, type http://whois.domaintools.com and press Enter. The Whois Lookup website appears, as shown in the screenshot Now, in the Enter a domain or IP address……

Gather Information about a Target by Tracing Emails using eMailTrackerPro The email header is a crucial part of any email and it is considered a great source of information for any ethical hacker launching attacks against a target. An email header contains the details of the sender, routing information, addressing scheme, date, subject, recipient, etc.…

Gather a Wordlist from the Target Website using CeWL The words available on the target website may reveal critical information that can assist in performing further exploitation. CeWL is a ruby app that is used to spider a given target URL to a specified depth, optionally following external links, and returns a list of unique…

Gather Information About a Target Website using GRecon GRecon is a Python tool that can be used to run Google search queries to perform reconnaissance on a target to find subdomains, sub- subdomains, login pages, directory listings, exposed documents, and WordPress entries. GRecon (Greei-Conn) is a simple python tool that automates the process of Google…

Gather Information about a Target Website using Photon Photon is a Python script used to crawl a given target URL to obtain information such as URLs (in-scope and out-of-scope), URLs with parameters, email addresses, social media accounts, files, secret keys and subdomains. The extracted information can further be exported in the JSON format. Open kali…

Mirror a Target Website using HTTrack Web Site Copier Website mirroring is the process of creating a replica or clone of the original website; this mirroring of the website helps you to footprint the web site thoroughly on your local system, and allows you to download a website to a local directory, analyze all directories,…

Extract a Company’s Data using Web Data Extracto Web data extraction is the process of extracting data from web pages available on the company’s website. A company’s data such as contact details (email, phone, and fax), URLs, meta tags (title, description, keyword) for website promotion, directories, web research, etc. are important sources of information for…

Gather Information About a Target Website using Central Ops CentralOps (centralops.net) is a free online network scanner that investigates domains and IP addresses, DNS records, traceroute, nslookup, whois searches, etc. Open Firefox type https://centralops.net and press Enter. The Central Ops website appears, as shown in the screenshot. To extract information associated with the target organization…

Gather Information About a Target Website using Ping Command Line Utility Ping is a network administration utility used to test the reachability of a host on an IP network and measure the round-trip time for messages sent from the originating host to a destination computer. The ping command sends an ICMP echo request to the…

Gather Personal Information from Various Social Networking Sites using Sherlock Sherlock is a python-based tool that is used to gather information about a target person over various social networking sites. Sherlock searches a vast number of social networking sites for a given target user, locates the person, and displays the results along with the complete…