Lab Tasks

Ethical hackers or pen testers use numerous tools and techniques to collect information about the target. Recommended labs that will assist you in learning various footprinting techniques include:

Perform footprinting through search engines

Gather information using advanced Google hacking techniques

Gather information from video search engines

Gather information from FTP search engines

Gather information from IoT search engines

Perform footprinting through web services

Find the company$$s domains and sub$-$domains using Netcraft

Gather personal information using PeekYou online people search service

Gather an email list using theHarvester

Gather information using deep and dark web searching

Determine target OS through passive footprinting

Perform footprinting through social networking sites

Gather employees$$ information from LinkedIn using theHarvester

Gather personal information from various social networking sites using Sherlock

Perform website footprinting

Gather information about a target website using ping command line utility

Gather Information About a Target Website using Central Ops

Extract a company$$s data using Web Data Extractor

Mirror the target website using HTTrack Web Site Copier

Gather a wordlist from the target website using CeWL

Perform email footprinting

Gather information about a target by tracing emails using eMailTrackerPro

Perform Whois footprinting

Perform Whois lookup using DomainTools

Perform DNS footprinting

Gather DNS information using nslookup command line utility and online tool

Perform reverse DNS lookup using reverse IP domain check and DNSRecon

Perform network footprinting

Locate the network range

Perform network tracerouting in Windows and Linux Machines

Perform footprinting using various footprinting tools

Footprinting a target using Recon$-$ng

Footprinting a target using Maltego

Footprinting a target using OSRFramework

Footprinting a target using BillCipher

Footprinting a target using OSINT Framework