cyber-security-resources/recon

Active and Passive Reconnaissance Tips and Tools

Passive Recon

Website Exploration and "Google Hacking"

• censys - https://censys.io/
• netcraft - https://searchdns.netcraft.com/
• Google Hacking Database (GHDB) - https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database/
• ExifTool - https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
• Certficate Search - https://crt.sh/
• Google Transparency Report - https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates
• SiteDigger - http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/sitedigger.aspx
• FOCA - http://www.informatica64.com/DownloadFOCA

Social Media

• A tool to scrape LinkedIn: https://github.com/dchrastil/TTSL
• cree.py http://ilektrojohn.github.com/creepy/

Whois

WHOIS information is based upon a tree hierarchy. ICANN (IANA) is the authoritative registry for all of the TLDs and is a great starting point for all manual WHOIS queries.

• ICANN - http://www.icann.org
• IANA - http://www.iana.com
• NRO - http://www.nro.net
• AFRINIC - http://www.afrinic.net
• APNIC - http://www.apnic.net
• ARIN - http://ws.arin.net
• LACNIC - http://www.lacnic.net
• RIPE - http://www.ripe.net

BGP looking glasses

• BGP4 - http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses
• BPG6 - http://lg.he.net/

DNS

• dnsenum - http://code.google.com/p/dnsenum
• dnsmap - http://code.google.com/p/dnsmap
• dnsrecon - http://www.darkoperator.com/tools-and-scripts
• dnstracer - http://www.mavetju.org/unix/dnstracer.php
• dnswalk - http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnswalk

Other Great Intelligence Gathering Sources and Tools

• Resources from Pentest-standard.org - http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/PTES_Technical_Guidelines#Intelligence_Gathering

Active Recon

• Tons of references to scanners and vulnerability management software for active reconnaissance - http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/PTES_Technical_Guidelines#Vulnerability_Analysis