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Backtrack Metagoofil

By K4Paul February 5, 2012 May 12, 2013 0 Backtrack, Enumeration, Penetration Testing Backtrack, Command, Footprinting, Google, Metagoofil

This tool will use google to search a domain for given file types and extract the metadata to a viewable HTML file. It is part of the footprinting stages of penetration testing.

Command Use:

cd /pentest/enumeration/google/metagoofil
./metagoofil.py –d <domain to search> -f <file type or all> -o <output html file name> -t <location to download files>

Backtrack Goohost

By K4Paul February 5, 2012 May 12, 2013 0 Backtrack, Enumeration, Penetration Testing Command, Footprinting, Goohost

This is a tool used to extract hostnames, subdomains, IP and email addresses from a given domain through information from google. It is part of the footprinting stages of penetration testing.

Command Use:

cd /pentest/enumeration/google/goohost
./goohost.sh <domain>

Backtrack theHarvester

By K4Paul February 5, 2012 May 12, 2013 0 Backtrack, Enumeration, Penetration Testing Footprinting, theHarvester

This tool is used to gather e-mail accounts, usernames, hostnames, subdomains from public sources such as google, bing and Linkedin. In penetration testing, this is part of performing enumeration or footprinting a network

Supported sources are:

Google – emails, subdomain and hostnames
Google profiles – locate employee names connected with the domain
Bing search – emails, subdomain, hostnames and virtual hosts
Linkedin – locate employee names connected with the domain
Exalead – emails, subdomain and hostnames

Command Use:

cd /pentest/enumeration/theharvestor
./theHarvester.py –d <target site> -l <max number of returned results> –b <source of gathering, ex: google>