Netcraft OSINT Reconnaissance
Reconnaissance can be divided into at least two categories, active and passive. Active reconnaissance requires that you interact with the target computer system to gain information about it.
Using OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) it’s possible to gather information about a target without even touching it. I’ve written about Recon-NG and the OSINT Framework. This article is about Netcraft.
Netcraft is a UK company that tracks websites. From this data, they’re able to calculate market share for web servers, uptime, etc. Another service is data about websites. This data can be extremely valuable to the hacker.
Searching for medium returns the above results. Lets choose the first item and click ‘report’.
With this report we can gather a lot of information about our target without touching it or firing any kind of alarm.
As always, not all information gathered is relevant and might not be correct. But reconnaissance is all about gathering info and determine what is relevant and what is not.
Other Reconnaissance Tools
You can view more articles about other reconnaissance tools here.
