RECONNAISSANCE WITH RECON-NG

RECONNAISSANCE WITH RECON-NG

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Welcome you all for the series of blogs on reconnaissance how to find possible information of your target . Today we will look  one of the best tool recon-ng which helps us to find possible information including subdomain , services , leak data, interesting files of our target.

what is Reconnaissance ?

Reconnaissance  is a technique

that collect possible information of our target 

this covers Footprinting, Scanning & Enumeration  During reconnaissance, an ethical hacker

attempts to gather as much information about a target system . It refer as

active  Reconnaissance and passive  Reconnaissance .

What is Recon-ng ?

Recon-ng is a framework fully written in Python

specially made for reconnaisance. Recon-ng is incorporated with independent

modules, database interaction, built in convenience functions, interactive

help, and command completion, Recon-ng comes with powerful environment where we

can conduct open source web-based reconnaissance can be conducted quickly and

thoroughly.

Recon-ng has a look and feels similar to the Metasploit Framework, which makes most of the users feel comfortable towards it.

Usage Of recon-ng :

Open Your Terminal And launch  recon-ng by typing command

→ recon-ng

As above image we have launch the applicationNow, In order to save your work export data we need to setup custom workspacehere we will add workspace By typing command:→ workspaces create yourname

As above picture we have created workspaces for our projectNow, We can delete workspaces  by typing command→ workspaces delete youreoekspc

Now, check for all possible modules for our further attack to show all modules for our attack type command→marketplace search

As above picture it list out all possible modules for our further attackNow, we will install module for our attack we will install module call recon/domains-hosts/findsubdom ains that help us to find subdomains of our targetTo use specif module install by type command :→ marketplace install recon/domains-hosts/findsubdom ains

As above picture we have successfully install module inside our workspaceNow, We need to use load particular module to load a module we will use command→ modules load recon/domains-hosts/findsubdom ains

Now, we have setup everything now find subdomains of our target here I only use subdomain module you can different module which help your recon phase more easy.Here we need to set our target as source here we will use command to set our target

→ options set SOURCE yoursite

As above

picture we have set our target as source Now we can run this module by typing

command

→ run

Now , how to

exit from current module here we will use command

→ back

Now we will add module discovery/info_disclosure/inte resting_files         & #160;    &# 160;    &#1 60;    &#16 0;    &#160 ;           & #160;    &# 160; which help us to find interesting files of you target

Here install

module by typing command

→ marketplace

install discovery/info_disclosure/inte resting_files

Now we need to

load module by typing command

→ modules load discovery/info_disclosure/inte resting_files 

As above

picture we have load  newly installed

module Now, Set target source by typing command :

→options set

PORT 443

→ options set

PROTOCOL https

→ options set

SOURCE yoursite

→ run

As you see as above pic we gather some interesting files from our target so you can use different modules for different attacks that helps to gather possible information about your target .

Download Recon-ng

https://github.com/lanmaste…

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Author: Pallab Jyoti Borah

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