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 find out information about a domain, 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 of using dmitry -w www.fh-campuswien.ac.at on the college website of FH Campus Wien -> 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
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)