Information Gathering Tools

Summary

This is a draft. Comparing various available information gathering tools in Kali and comparing differences to ParrotOS

Requirements

• Operating system: Kali Linux 2021.1 amd64, Parrot Security 4.10 amd64

Disclaimer: all possible examples and tests done have been done in VMWare in a Kali Linux and ParrotOS VM.

Tools

DMitry

DMitry is a CLI to gather information about a host - possible subdomains, uptime information, tcp port scan, email addresses, whois lookups etc. It is mostly used to reveal information that exists through search engines about the owner or host of a web page, i.e. for social engineering attacks.
When using the portscan option, the results show less open ports than doing that same TCP scan with nmap.
HostIP:192.168.0.130 HostName: Gathered TCP Port information for 192.168.0.130

Port           State

23/tcp open Portscan Finished: Scanned 150 ports, 148 ports were in state closed

To perform a whois lookup, you need either the IP or the domain same.

Used Hardware

Device to be used with this documentation Maybe another device to be used with this documentation

Courses

• A course where this documentation was used (2017, 2018)
• Another one (2018)

References

• https://www.parrotsec.org/docs/
• https://www.kali.org/docs/