Information Gathering

Tools and Techniques

hping3
• hping is a command-line oriented
TCP/IP packet assembler/analyzer.
The interface is inspired to the
ping(8) unix command, but hping
isn’t only able to send ICMP echo
requests. It supports TCP, UDP, ICMP
and RAW-IP protocols, has a
traceroute mode, the ability to send
files between a covered channel,
and many other features.
•
hping3
• A subset of the stuff you can do using hping:
• Firewall testing
• Advanced port scanning
• Network testing, using different protocols, TOS, fragmentation
• Manual path MTU discovery
• Advanced traceroute, under all the supported protocols
• Remote OS fingerprinting
• Remote uptime guessing
• TCP/IP stacks auditing
• hping can also be useful to students that are learning TCP/IP.
enum4linux
• Enum4linux is a tool for
enumerating information from
Windows and Samba systems.
It attempts to offer similar
functionality to enum.exe
formerly available from
www.bindview.com.
SSLyze
• SSLyze is a Python tool that can
analyze the SSL configuration of
a server by connecting to it. It is
designed to be fast and
comprehensive, and should help
organizations and testers
identify mis-configurations
affecting their SSL servers.
•
sslscan
• SSLScan is designed to be
easy, lean and fast. The
output includes preferred
ciphers of the SSL/TLS
service, and text and XML
output formats are
supported. It is TLS SNI
aware when used with a
supported version of
OpenSSL.
theharvester
• theHarvester is a tool for
gathering e-mail
accounts, subdomain
names, virtual hosts, open
ports/ banners, and
employee names from
different public sources
(search engines, pgp key
servers).
 Maltego
• Maltego is an Information gathering
tools inbuilt in Kali Linux by default and can
be used for determining the relationships and
real world links between:
• People
• Groups of people (social networks)
• Companies
• Organizations
• Web sites
• Internet infrastructure such as:
• Domains
• DNS names
• Netblocks
• IP addresses
• Phrases
• Affiliations
• Documents and files
Thank you