Simple website footprinting

✍ Scribed by Steve Mansfield-Devine

• Book ID: 104392670
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 217 KB
• Volume: 2009
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(09)70038-8

✦ Synopsis

FOOTPRINTING

Hackers and pen-testers have a number of sophisticated tools at their disposal. But here we'll be looking at how you can 'footprint' a site -gather essential information about it -using only the most basic software typically bundled with operating systems. And these are techniques that are unlikely to trigger an IDS or raise a sysadmin's suspicions.

Netcraft

Your first stop is not the site itself but Netcraft.com. Typical information provided includes: address of the domain owner.

who is hosting the site (plus contact email) Uptime stats for the server, including when it was last rebooted. module details).

Netcraft.com can be a one-stop shop for basic footprinting. But it doesn't always provide this much information