Information Gathering • •
Information gathering is the first step of hacking in which you try to understand your target and gather more and more information. You can gather information about your target in different ways:
1)google based information gathering •
with the use of google dorks or exploit-db you can gather information. (https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database)
2)web site based information gathering • •
with the use of websites available on the internet you can gather information. Some example of the websites are whois,dnsdumpster etc
3)Tool based information gathering •
with the use f tools available on your operating system you are able to acquire information about your target
for example in the kali linux you have tools like o o o
nmap metasploit wireshark
Example of information gathering step 1:choose a target I am performing a information gathering on the collage website for choosing the target i used google dorks intext:institute site:in target:https://gracecollege.in/ step 2:applying various information gathering techniques i)ping gracecollege.in with the help of ping i found IP-address of that website which is 88.99.99.104 ii)with the help of subdomain founder I foundend subdomain of that particular website.
iii)with the help of sitereport i found operating system and server used by that website
Os:Linux Server:LiteSpeed Nameserver: ns11.fivecron.com Domain registrar:registry.in Nameserver organisation:whois.PublicDomainRegistry.com