InformationGathering

Information Gathering Techiques

To perform information gathering techniques

AIM:

To perform information gathering techniques using kali linux

STEPS:

Step 1:

Install kali linux either in partition or virtual box or in live mode

Step 2:

Investigate on the various categories of tools as follows:

Step 3:

Open terminal/browser and try execute necessary commands/use url to perform information gathering

Pen Test Tools Categories:

Following Categories of pen test tools are identified for information gathering:

Footprinting is a part of the reconnaissance process which is used for gathering possible information about a target computer system or network. http://www.whois.com/whois website to get detailed information about a domain name information including its owner, its registrar, date of registration, expiry, name server, owner's contact information, etc.

OUTPUT:

Finding IP address:

ping command is available on Windows as well as on Linux OS. Following is the example to find out the IP address of facebook.com. ##output

Finding Hosting Company

get further detail by using ip2location.com website. ##output

History of the website:

output

https://web.archive.org/

Webserver Fingerprinting:

Netcat:

sudo nc example.com 80 GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com

nmap:

###output

Whatweb

output

httprint

output

Tracing the Location

TCP Traceroute: sudo traceroute -T www.google.com

output

UDP Traceroute:

sudo traceroute -U www.google.com

output

ICMP Traceroute:

sudo traceroute www.google.com

output

RESULT:

The information gathering techniques tools/procedure were identified successfully