Hacking For Beginners – Manthan Desai

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8. Information gathering and Scanning

Why Information gathering?

• Information Gathering can reveal online footprints of criminal.• Information Gathering can help investigator to profile criminals

Information gathering of websites

We need to gather the following information about the website :

• Whois Information• Owner of website.• Email id used to register domain.• Domain registrar.• Domain name server information.• Releted websites.

We can use website www.domaintools.com for this puropse.

Whois

Whois is query to database to get following information.1.Owner of website.2.Email id used to register domain.3.Domain registrar.4. Domain name server information.5. Releted websites.

Reverse IP mapping

• Reverse IP will give number of websites hosted on same server.• If one website is vulnerable on the server then hacker can easily root the server.• Domainbyip.com

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