Chapter 4. Utilizing Search Engines

INFORMATION GATHERING – Search Engines

 

Objective

  1. Use Kali Linux tools to search in the Internet
  2. Gather necessary information about the target

As described in the previous chapter, google  is a great tool for information gathering. There are many tools available out there for information gathering. Among some of the web tools are:

Beside the above mentioned search engines, kali linux comes with great tools that relies on search engines to narrow and provide a better result. These tools can be use to gather necessary information about a target or information connected to the target.

Information Gathering Tools

Theharvester is a tool that collects information from Google, Bing, PGP, Linkedin.
command: theharvester -d “target domain” -l “search count” -b “source url”

  • Use the command above, we can gather information about binus.ac.id on google.
    command: theharvester -d binus.ac.id -l 4 -b google.com
  • We will use the same procedure to gather information from linkedin
    command: theharvester -d binus.ac.id -l 4 -b linkedin

 

Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application and shows how information is connected to each other.  It can find the relationships, which (people) are linked to, including their social profile, mutual friends, companies that are related to the information gathered, and websites.

  • Maltego comes with a subscription and commercial version. With the commercial version, we can do some of the basic information gathering. But to perform more advanced query, it requires the subscription package.
  • Follow this link for a simple guide to use maltego

 

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