Video: Getting Information During Footprinting

Background Information that we need during footprinting.

In this post, I'll tell you how to get the background technology or services that a website is running. This will be helpful in gaining some information during the Information Gathering process and footprinting.

How do you get the information you need during Footprinting?

From Network:

• Domain Name
• IDS
• IP Addresses of Reachable Computer Systems
• Network Block
• Networking Protocols
• Private Websites
• Authentication Methods
• VPN Devices
• TCP & UDP Services Running
• Internal DNS Information

From Systems:

• Passwords
• System Names
• User & Group Names
• Remote System Type
• System Banners

From Organizations:

• Addresses & Phone Numbers
• Background of the Organization
• Company Directory
• Location Details
• Employee Details
• Organization other websites
• Press Releases
• Security Policies Implemented

How to get that information from those areas:

1. Search Engines ( Google, Altavista, Metacrawler, Bing, etc. )
2. WHOIS Records
3. DNS
4. Social Networks
5. Website Mirroring
6. People Sites
7. URL Analysis
8. Job Sites
9. Financial Web
10. Alert Websites
11. Archive Websites ( https://archive.org/web/ )
12. Google Earth.

I hope you've enjoyed this :)