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.
DMitry:

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

Nmap:

Nmap scan report for 192.168.0.130
Host is up (0.20s latency).
Not shown: 996 closed ports
PORT     STATE SERVICE
23/tcp   open  telnet
554/tcp  open  rtsp
843/tcp  open  unknown
5001/tcp open  commplex-link
MAC Address: 7C:DD:90:AF:4E:7D (Shenzhen Ogemray Technology)
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2.33 seconds

To perform a whois lookup, you need either the IP or the domain same.
Overall a nice tool, would not use it for port scanning though. Whois lookup on the other hand gets you some nice useful results. Below is an example on using whois lookup on www.fh-campuswien.ac.at

HostIP:91.213.77.62
HostName:www.fh-campuswien.ac.at
Gathered Inic-whois information for fh-campuswien.ac.at
---------------------------------
domain:         fh-campuswien.ac.at
registrar:      
registrant:     FCW1942152-NICAT
admin-c:        
tech-c:         NLTU11579014-NICAT
nserver:        ns.nextlayer.at
remarks:        81.16.150.30
nserver:        ns2.nextlayer.at
remarks:        81.16.151.30
changed:        20171003 19:16:08
source:         AT-DOM
personname:     
organization:   fh campus wien
street address: Favoritenstrasse 226
postal code:    A-1100
city:           Vienna
country:        Austria
phone:          +43160668771000
fax-no:         +43160668771009
e-mail:         office@fh-campuswien.ac.at
nic-hdl:        FCW1942152-NICAT
changed:        20100323 17:12:46
source:         AT-DOM
personname:     Hostmaster Hostmaster
organization:   next layer Telekommunikationsdienstleistungs- und BeratungsGmbH
street address: Mariahilfer Guertel 37- 7
postal code:    1150
city:           Vienna
country:        Austria
phone:          +43517649
e-mail:         hostmaster@nextlayer.at
nic-hdl:        NLTU11579014-NICAT
changed:        20170929 13:17:54
source:         AT-DOM

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/