# Active and Passive Reconnaissance Tips and Tools

## Passive Recon

### Website Exploration and "Google Hacking"
* 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
* Certficate Search - https://crt.sh/
* Huge TLS/SSL certificate DB with advanced search - https://certdb.com
* 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
* cree.py	http://ilektrojohn.github.com/creepy

### 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

## 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)
 


### 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
* [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)
* [nikto](https://learning.oreilly.com/interactive-lab/ethical-hacking-web/9780137673469X003/)
* [nuclei](https://github.com/The-Art-of-Hacking/h4cker/blob/master/cheat_sheets/NMAP_cheat_sheet.md)
* [OWASP ZAP](https://www.zaproxy.org)