OSINT techniques

Google dorks

  • inurl: Searches text in indexed URLs. For example, inurl:hacking will fetch all URLs containing the word “hacking”.
  • filetype: Searches by file extensions. For example, filetype:pdf "hacking" will bring all pdf files containing the word “hacking”. 
  • site: Searches URLs for the specified domain. For example, site:tryhackme.com will bring all the indexed URLs from  tryhackme.com.
  • cache: Get the latest cached version by the Google search engine. For example, cache:tryhackme.com.

WhoIs lookup

PII info about registrar of a domain.

Robots.txt

Every websites provides a robots.txt file under its root folder like: https://www.google.com/robots.txt robots.txt includes information for search engines. Telling them what to index and what not.

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

GitHub Repos

Victim might exposed sourcecode on github.

Questions

  1. Check https://who.is/whois/santagift.shop
  2. Clone repo on https://github.com/muhammadthm/SantaGiftShop and answer all the questions.

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