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Footprinting and Reconnaissance
Footprinting or Reconnaissance is the process of gathering information about the target before an attack is carried out by a hacker.In a footprinting phase, the hacker will try to collect the maximum amount of information he can about the target which can be useful in an attack such as:
- Identifying the operating system
- Scanning ports to detect open ones for exploitation
- WHOIS queries used to know about registrar information of a particular service.
- Crawling the web to know more about the target.
- Collecting phone numbers,email addresses,employee information & other insider information.
In short,footprinting is the first most and an essential phase of penetration testing without which it can be very difficult to perform a hack.
To gather information a hacker can use various tools and techniques which are listed below.
- Nslookup
- Nmap
- Sam Spade
- Traceroute
- NeoTrace
- Maltego
- Recon-ng
- Dmitry
- Sparta