Information Gathering Techiques
To perform information gathering techniques using kali linux
Install kali linux either in partition or virtual box or in live mode
Investigate on the various categories of tools as follows:
Open terminal/browser and try execute necessary commands/use url to perform information gathering
Following Categories of pen test tools are identified for information gathering:
Footprinting is a part of the reconnaissance process which is used for gathering possible information about a target computer system or network.
ping command is available on Windows as well as on Linux OS. Following is the example to find out the IP address of facebook.com.
sudo nc example.com 80 GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: example.com
sudo traceroute -U www.google.com
sudo traceroute www.google.com
sudo traceroute -T www.google.com
The information gathering techniques tools/procedure were identified successfully