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Complete Ethical Hacking

Why Linux?⚑

  • it's open-source
  • free of cost
  • environment for pen-testing
  • good for development
  • very light
  • varities of distributions

Network Commands in Linux⚑

ifconfig - shows interfaces and IP addresses corosponding to those interfaces

  • MAC Addr - Unique addresses for every device in the world. used to communicate within local network
  • IP Addr - used to communicate over internet. may change.

Loopback Interface⚑

any traffic that computer sends to the loopback network is addressed to the same computer. loopback interface have IP address 127.0.0.0/8 The most common IP address for the loopback interface is 127.0.0.1 . Loopback interface is represented with lo in iwconfig/ipconfig output.

although any interface can be used to identify the device, loopback interface is generally used.

Information Gathering⚑

  • first step in pen-testing
  • act of gathering data for our target
  • any type of data which might help us achieve our shits

Types of Information Gathering⚑

Active Info Gathering from target(website etc)

directly get the data from target. examples: direct packets exchange, talking with employes etc etc

Passive Info Gathering from target

collecting info from a middle source. example: google about target and gather data from a third party website etc

Goals⚑

  • IP Address(s)
  • Employee Emails
  • Employee Phone Numbers

  • Technologies

  • Operating System

  • Networks
  • Software

Tools for Gathering Information⚑

  • WhatWeb - Gather information about a website. for more info man whatweb
  • theHarvester - Gather info about Email, Hostname and Username
  • hunter.io - Gather info about Email
  • redhawk

Tools often fail. Find related tools in GitHub.