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# Active and Passive Reconnaissance Tips and Tools
## Passive Recon
### Website Exploration and "Google Hacking"
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* censys - https://censys.io
* Spyse - https://spyse.com
* netcraft - https://searchdns.netcraft.com
* Google Hacking Database (GHDB) - https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database
* ExifTool - https://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool
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* Certficate Search - https://crt.sh/
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* Huge TLS/SSL certificate DB with advanced search - https://certdb.com
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* Google Transparency Report - https://transparencyreport.google.com/https/certificates
* SiteDigger - http://www.mcafee.com/us/downloads/free-tools/sitedigger.aspx
### Social Media
* A tool to scrape LinkedIn: https://github.com/dchrastil/TTSL
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* cree.py http://ilektrojohn.github.com/creepy
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### Whois
WHOIS information is based upon a tree hierarchy. ICANN (IANA) is the authoritative registry for all of the TLDs and is a great starting point for all manual WHOIS queries.
* ICANN - http://www.icann.org
* IANA - http://www.iana.com
* NRO - http://www.nro.net
* AFRINIC - http://www.afrinic.net
* APNIC - http://www.apnic.net
* ARIN - http://ws.arin.net
* LACNIC - http://www.lacnic.net
* RIPE - http://www.ripe.net
## BGP looking glasses
* BGP4 - http://www.bgp4.as/looking-glasses
* BPG6 - http://lg.he.net/
## DNS
* dnsenum - http://code.google.com/p/dnsenum
* dnsmap - http://code.google.com/p/dnsmap
* dnsrecon - http://www.darkoperator.com/tools-and-scripts
* dnstracer - http://www.mavetju.org/unix/dnstracer.php
* dnswalk - http://sourceforge.net/projects/dnswalk
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## Dark Web Research
* [Search Engines for Academic Research ](https://www.itseducation.asia/deep-web.htm )
* See additional information under the [OSINT Dark Web OSINT Tools section ](https://github.com/The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker/tree/master/osint#dark-web-osint-tools )
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### Other Great Intelligence Gathering Sources and Tools
* Resources from Pentest-standard.org - http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/PTES_Technical_Guidelines#Intelligence_Gathering
## Active Recon
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* [Tons of references to scanners and vulnerability management software for active reconnaissance ](http://www.pentest-standard.org/index.php/PTES_Technical_Guidelines#Vulnerability_Analysis )
* [nmap cheat sheet ](https://github.com/The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker/blob/master/cheat_sheets/NMAP_cheat_sheet.md )
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* [nikto ](https://learning.oreilly.com/interactive-lab/ethical-hacking-web/9780137673469X003/ )
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* [nuclei ](https://github.com/The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker/blob/master/cheat_sheets/NMAP_cheat_sheet.md )
* [OWASP ZAP ](https://www.zaproxy.org )
