INFORMATION GATHERINGUJJWAL SAHAY | THE BIG COMPUTING.COM

INTRODUCTION• Information Gathering is a method of collecting information about the target or the victim .It is the most basic and the initial step to conduct any type of Hacking or to find out the criminal.

It is very useful for,

• –Cyber Crime Investigation

• –Collecting Information about Victim/Target

Mode of Information Gathering

• Info Gathering tools

• WHO IS information gathering

• Routing

• Search Engines

• Online services

Information Gathering toolsSite Digger

Site Digger is McAfee product designed to search Google’s cache to look for vulnerabilities, errors, configuration issues, proprietary information and interesting security nuggets on websites.

• You can get it from,

http://www.mcafee.com/apps/free-tools/termsofuse.aspx?url=/us/downloads/free-tools/sitedigger.aspx

SITE DIGGER

Maltego

• Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application.

• It allows for them in gathering of information as well as the representation of this information in a meaningful way.

• Coupled with its graphing libraries, Maltego, allows you to identify key relationships between information and identify previously unknown relationships between them

Maltego

WHO IS INFORMATION GATHERING

WHO IS information gathering

‘Who is’ is query to database to get following information.

1.Owner of website.

2.Email id used to register domain.

3.Domain registrar.

4.Domain name server information.

5.Related websites.

Some References

1. Domain Tools

URL: http://www.domaintools.com

2. Whois.net

URL: http://www.whois.net

3. Who is

URL: http://who.is

Who is . net

Who . is

Domain Tools

Registration details

Server Stats

Reverse IP Tracing

Route Mapping

• 1.NeoTrace

URL:http://www.networkingfiles.com/neotrace

• 2.VisualTrace-Lite

URL:http://visualroute.visualware.com

• 3.PathAnalyzerPro

URL:http://www.pathanalyzer.com

Neo Trace

Search Engines

Information gathering using different search engines may give you best available results.i.e.: Google search, yahoo search, Bing search

Forums/Blogs

• Information Gathering from blogs and forums can be useful. Not only about some person, we can also gather the information about the person. People creates blogs to introduce themselves over the internet. Blogger or word press may give us best results.

Job Portals

INFORMATION FOUND ON DIFFERENT JOB PORTALS ARE ESSENTIAL, LATEST AND PERFECT.

Social NetworkingALMOST 60% INTERNET USERS ARE ON FACEBOOK, ORKUT, TWITTER, LINKEDIN. IT CONTAINS THEIR PERSONAL AS WELL AS OFFICIAL INFORMATION.

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