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OSInt, Cyberstalking, Footprinting and Recon: Getting to know you (Hacking Illustrated Series InfoSec Tutorial Videos)

OSInt, Cyberstalking, Footprinting and Recon: Getting to know you

    The following are videos from the Footprinting/OSInt/Recon/Cyberstalking class I did up in Fort Wayne Indiana for the Northeast Indiana Chapter of ISSA. I've split the class into three videos by subtopic, and included the text from the presentation for quick linking.

DNS, Whois and Domain Tools
Finding general Information about an organization via the web
Anti-social networks
Google Hacking
Metadata
Other odds and ends

Slides PDF
Slided PPTX

Part 1:
DNS, Whois and Domain Tools
Finding general Information about an organization via the web

Had to fight early in the class to find a network connection that allowed port 43 TCP out. Thanks for the loan of the phone Greg 2, and all the other folks who worked to get me a connection.

Download Part 1
 

OSInt, Cyberstalking, Footprinting and Recon: Getting to know you

About Adrian
* I run Irongeek.com
* I have an interest in InfoSec education
* I don't know everything - I'm just a geek with time on my hands
* (ir)Regular on the ISDPodcast http://www.isd-podcast.com/ 

Class Structure
* Mile wide, 2.5 feet deep

* Feel free to ask questions at any time

* There will (hopefully) be many long breaks to play with the tools mentioned

* I'll try not to drop anyone's docs but my own, but volunteers for "victims" will help

So, what info is out there?
Other names and related concepts:
* OSInt (Open Source Intelligence)
* Scoping
* Footprinting
* Discovery
* Recon
* Cyberstalking
Subtopics
* DNS, Whois and Domain Tools

* Finding general Information about an
organization via the web

* Anti-social networks

* Google Hacking

* Metadata

* Other odds and ends

Why?
For Pen-testers and attackers:
* Precursor to attack
* Social Engineering
* Disgruntled Employees
* User names and passwords
* Web vulnerabilities
* Internal IT structure (software, servers, IP layout)
* Spearphishing
For everyone else:
* You want to keep attackers from finding this info and using this against you. :)

Dropping Docs
* All these techniques are legal as far as I know, but IANAL
* Sorry if I "drop someone's docs" other than my own
* Please don't misuse this information
Backtrack 5
* Tons of fun tools to play with
http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ 
* Username: root
Password: toor
* Many of the DNS tools are in
/pentest/enumeration/dns/

DNS, Whois and Domain Tools
Who-do the voodoo that you do so well

DNS
* Glue of the Internet
* Think of it as a phone book of sorts
* Maps names to IPs, and IPs to names
(and other odds and ends)
* Organization information is also kept
Simple DNS Lookups
* Host name to IP lookup:
nslookup www.irongeek.com

* Reverse lookup:
nslookup 208.97.169.250
DNS Record Types
Just a few record types cribbed from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types

Getting a list of host names
* Zonetransfers

* Bruteforcing from a dictionary

* Nmap -sL <some-IP-range>
 

DIGing for data
dig irongeek.com any

dig @ns1.dreamhost.com irongeek.com any
Zone Transfer:Give me all your records!
Zone Transfer: NSLOOKUP
(Windows version)
C:\Documents and Settings\Adrian>nslookup
Default Server: resolver1.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.222.222

> set type=ns
> irongeek.com
Server: resolver1.opendns.com
Address: 208.67.222.222

Non-authoritative answer:
irongeek.com nameserver = ns1.dreamhost.com
irongeek.com nameserver = ns2.dreamhost.com
irongeek.com nameserver = ns3.dreamhost.com
> server ns1.dreamhost.com
Default Server: ns1.dreamhost.com
Address: 66.33.206.206

> ls irongeek.com
[ns1.dreamhost.com]
*** Can't list domain irongeek.com: Query refused
> exit

Zone Transfer: Can you DIG it?
* Domain Internet Groper
dig ugent.be ns
dig @ugdns1.ugent.be ugent.be axfr

Zone Transfer: Others
* Other tools in BackTrack
./dnsrecon.py -d ugent.be -x
./dnsenum.pl ugent.be

* ServerSniff:
http://serversniff.net/nsreport.php
http://serversniff.net/content.php?do=subdomains

* GUI Dig for Windows
http://nscan.org/dig.html
Bruteforcing
* Fierce
http://ha.ckers.org/fierce/
./fierce.pl -threads 100 -dns irongeek.com
./fierce.pl -dns irongeek.com -wordlist dictionary.txt

Nmap Demo

Whois: Whooo, are you* Who-who-who-who.
* Great for troubleshooting, bad for privacy
* Who owns a domain name or IP
* E-mail contacts
* Physical addresses
* Name server
* IP ranges

* Who is by proxy?
Whois Demo
apt-get install whois
whois example.com
whois 208.97.169.250

Whois Tools
*nix Command line

Nirsoft's
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/whois_this_domain.html  http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/ipnetinfo.html

Pretty much any network tools collection

Whois and domain tools sites
* RobTex
http://www.robtex.com

* ServerSniff
http://www.serversniff.net

Traceroute
(ok, not really a DNS tool, but I was too lazy to make another section)
* Windows (ICMP):
tracert irongeek.com

* *nix (UDP by default, change with -I or -T):
traceroute irongeek.com

* Just for fun:
http://www.nabber.org/projects/geotrace/ 

Finding general Information about an organization via the web
So, you have a job posting for an
Ethical Hacker huh?


Sites about the organization
* The organization's website (duh!)
* Corp Info
http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/PTES_Technical_Guidelines#Corporate 
* Wayback Machine
http://www.archive.org 
* Monster (and other job sites)
http://www.monster.com/ 
* Zoominfo
http://www.zoominfo.com/
* Google Groups (News groups, Google Groups and forums)
http://groups.google.com/ 
* Boards
http://boardreader.com 
http://omgili.com 
http://groups.google.com 
* LinkedIn
http://www.linkedin.com/


Part 2:
Anti-social networks
Google Hacking

Ok, I had some epic fail here using some of the "people searches". I should have tested better with the names I planed to use. I think I somewhat made up for it while "Google Hacking" people later in the class. Goes to show results vary from search provider to search provider, and who you are looking up.

Download Part 2

Anti-social networks
It's all about how this links to that links to some other thing...

Let's get to know Ester
* Fake profile I made up to use for class
* Dropped some Dox at a few places
* May sound creepy, but you can practice with names from dating sites
* Remember what you learned from 4chan:


Cyberstalking Sites
Large list at:
* http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/doxing-footprinting-cyberstalking 
Useful:
* http://com.lullar.com 
* http://www.peekyou.com 
* http://www.checkusernames.com / http://knowem.com 
* http://www.isearch.com
* http://www.whitepages.com 
Not quite related, but cool:
* http://tineye.com 
* http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
Crap:
* Most of them

Other
General
* http://youropenbook.org
Geolocation
* http://www.bing.com/maps 
* http://twittermap.appspot.com
* http://www.fourwhere.com/
* http://icanstalku.com 
* http://ip2geolocation.com 
Neighbors
* http://www.whitepages.com/find_neighbors 
Tools
* Maltego
http://www.paterva.com/web5/

* See differences:
http://www.paterva.com/web5/client/difference.php 

* Covers a large cross section of what this class is about

Story Time
* George Bronk
* Found info on women's Facebook profiles
* Used information to answer security question at mail providers
* Found nudes
* Posted some, sent them to contacts lists, asked for more

To be social or anti-social
* Should you have a profile?

* What if you don't?

* Impersonators

* Robin Sage (by Thomas Ryan)
* Get in peoples friends list to probe their connections

Google Hacking
More than just turning off safe search (though that's fun too)
So, do you really know what's shared online about your organization*
* PII (Personally identifiable information)
* Email address
* User names
* Vulnerable web services
* Web based admin interfaces for hardware
* Much more........
* YOU HAVE TO USE YOUR IMAGINATION



Google Advance Operators
More Operators
General Examples
* inurl:nph-proxy site:edu

* intitle:index.of.etc

* intitle:index.of site:irongeek.com

* filetype:pptx site:irongeek.com

* "vnc desktop" inurl:5800

* adrian crenshaw -site:irongeek.com
More General Examples
* SSN filetype:xls | filetype:xlsx

* "dig @* * axfr"

* inurl:admin

* inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis

* inurl:hp/device/this.LCDispatcher

* "192.168.*.*" (but replace with your IP range)

Facebook Images
195608_100002238375103_5292346_n.jpg

inurl:100002238375103

Google Hacking For People
* inurl:ester.pent
* inurl:ester1337
* intitle:ester1337
* inurl:user inurl:irongeek -site:irongeek.com
* inurl:account "irongeek"
* site:facebook.com inurl:group (ISSA | Information Systems Security Association)
* site:linkedin.com inurl:company (NSA | National Security Agency)

Google Hacking DB
* Exploit DB Google Dorks
http://www.exploit-db.com/google-dorks/ 

* Old School
http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/ 

Google Hacking Tools
* Metagoofil
http://www.edge-security.com/metagoofil.php 

* The Harvester
./theHarvester.py -d irongeek.com -l 100 -b google

* Online Google Hacking Tool
http://www.secapps.com/a/ghdb 
* Spiderfoot
http://www.binarypool.com/spiderfoot/
* Goolag
http://goolag.org 

More Google Hacking Tools
* Gooscan
Should be on BackTrack CD/VM

* Wikto
http://www.sensepost.com/research/wikto/ 

* SiteDigger
http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/sitedigger.aspx

* BiLE
http://www.sensepost.com/research_misc.html 

* MSNPawn
http://www.net-square.com/msnpawn/index.shtml 

Google APIs and proxies
* JSON/Atom
http://code.google.com/apis/customsearch/v1/overview.html 
* Old
http://code.google.com/apis/websearch/ 
* Really Old SOAP:
* EvilAPI
http://evilapi.com/  (defunct?)
* Spud
http://www.sensepost.com/labs/tools/pentest/spud 
* I can Haz API keyz?
https://github.com/search


Part 3:
Metadata
Other odds and ends

I think the class had a lot of fun with FOCA. Good stuff.

Download Part 3

Metadata
Data about data

Pwned by Metadata

Examples of file types that contain metadata
* JPG
EXIF (Exchangeable image file format)
IPTC (International Press Telecommunications Council)
* PDF
* DOC
* DOCX
* EXE
* XLS
* XLSX
* PNG
* Too many to name them all.

Metadata Tools
* Strings

* FOCA (use compatibility mode if needed)
http://www.informatica64.com/DownloadFOCA/ 

* Metagoofil
http://www.edge-security.com/metagoofil.php 

* EXIF Tool
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/ 

* EXIF Viewer Plugin
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3905 

* Jeffrey's Exif Viewer
http://regex.info/exif.cgi

Metadata Tools
* EXIF Reader
http://www.takenet.or.jp/~ryuuji/minisoft/exifread/english/

* Flickramio
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/27101 

* Cree.py
http://ilektrojohn.github.com/creepy/ 

* Pauldotcom
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=metadata+site%3Apauldotcom.com&btnG=Search

Other odds and ends
Stuff that does not quite fit anywhere else

Off with their Headers
Robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /private
Disallow: /secret
IGiGLE and WiGLE
Android Location?
* http://samy.pl/androidmap 
More Links
* Links for Doxing, Personal OSInt, Profiling, Footprinting, Cyberstalking
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/doxing-footprinting-cyberstalking 

* PTES Technical Guidelines
http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/PTES_Technical_Guidelines 

* VulnerabilityAssessment.co.uk - An information portal for Vulnerability Analysts and Penetration Testers
http://www.vulnerabilityassessment.co.uk/Penetration%20Test.html 

Videos/Talks/Presentations
* Social Zombies - Kevin Johnson and Tom Eston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l79q2G3E8HY 
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=C591646E9B0CF33B
http://vimeo.com/18827316

* Satan is on my Friends List - Shawn Moyer and Nathan Hamiel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asj8yzXihcc 

* Using Social Networks To Profile, Find and 0wn Your Victims - Dave Marcus
http://www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=videos/dojocon-2010-videos#Using%20Social%20Networks%20To%20Profile,%20Find%20and%200wn%20Your%20Victims

Events
* DerbyCon 2011, Louisville Ky
Sept 30 - Oct 2
http://derbycon.com/ 
* Louisville Infosec
http://www.louisvilleinfosec.com/ 
* Other Cons:
http://www.skydogcon.com/ 
http://www.dojocon.org/ 
http://www.hack3rcon.org/
http://phreaknic.info 
http://notacon.org/
http://www.outerz0ne.org/ 

Questions?
42


 

Offensive-Security Ohio Chapter (OSOC) Version
 

This is the version of my OSInt/Footprinting talk as given at the Offensive-Security Ohio Chapter (OSOC) class on May 18th. I did not have my video gear with me, so @securid did the recording. Videos can also be downloaded from http://www.1dave1cup.com/

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