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
Spiderfoot
Legion
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.nmap.org
HostIP:45.33.49.119 HostName:www.nmap.org Gathered Inic-whois information for nmap.org --------------------------------- Domain Name: NMAP.ORG Registry Domain ID: D3106402-LROR Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.fabulous.com Registrar URL: http://www.fabulous.com Updated Date: 2020-01-14T05:38:40Z Creation Date: 1999-01-18T05:00:00Z Registry Expiry Date: 2028-01-18T05:00:00Z Registrar Registration Expiration Date: Registrar: Sea Wasp, LLC Registrar IANA ID: 411 Registrar Abuse Contact Email: support@fabulous.com Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +61.282133006 Reseller: Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited Registrant Organization: Insecure.Com LLC Registrant State/Province: WA Registrant Country: US Name Server: NS1.LINODE.COM Name Server: NS2.LINODE.COM Name Server: NS3.LINODE.COM Name Server: NS4.LINODE.COM Name Server: NS5.LINODE.COM DNSSEC: unsigned
Nmap
Recon-ng
Maltego
Netdiscover
Ike-scan
What's different in ParrotOS?
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)