In the context of cybersecurity, footprinting is the technique used for gathering information about computer systems and the entities they belong to.
This post lists some footprinting tools.
List of footprinting tools
List of footprinting tools
- Maltego
- recon-ng
- ReconDog
- FOCA
- NSLOOKUP
- OSRFramework
- Prefix WhoIs
- LHF (Low Hanging Fruit)
- Sni1per
- CloudFail
- Aquatone
- GMapCatcher
- DNS-Digger
- Reconnoitre
- DomainHostingView
- Robtex
- SearchBug
- Zaba Search
- Metasploit
- theHarvester
- Dig Web Interface
- SearchDiggity
- NetScanTools Pro
- TinEye
- White Pages
- Ping-Probe
- SpiderFoot
- Metagoofil
- BiLE Suite
The most popular are Maltego, recon-ng, recondog, FOCA, Recon-Dog and NSLOOKUP.
Maltego
Maltego is a tool developed by a German company of the same name.
recon-ng
recon-ng is an open source intelligence gathering tool.
ReconDog
ReconDog is an open source intelligence
FOCA
FOCA is a tool to find metadata and hidden information in the documents. It was developed by ElevenPaths, that was acquired by the Spanish company Telefónica Tech.
NSLOOKUP
NSLOOKUP is an online tool.
OSRFramework
OSRFramework (Open Sources Research Framework) is an open source project by Spanish company i3visio focused on providing API and tools to perform more accurate online researches.
Prefix WhoIs
Prefix WhoIs provides a whois-compatible client and server framework for disclosing various up-to-date routing information
LHF (Low Hanging Fruit)
LHF (Low Hanging Fruit) is a a toolset for finding unsecured Raspberry Pis.
Sni1per
Sni1per is an open-source pentesting toolkit.
CloudFail
CloudFail
Aquatone
Aquatone is an open-source project.
michenriksen’s project at GitHub (read-only)
GMapCatcher
GMapCatcher is an online map viewer.
Reconnoitre
Reconnoitre is an open-source project.
DomainHostingView
DomainHostingView is a utility for Windows that collects extensive information about a domain by using a series of DNS and WHOIS queries, and generates HTML report that can be displayed in any Web browser.
It is developed by NirSoft.
Robtex
Robtex is an online tool.
SearchBug
SearchBug
ZabaSearch.com
ZabaSearch.com is an online tool.
Metasploit
Metasploit is an open source project.
theHarvester
theHarvester is a tool designed to be used during the reconnaissance stage of a red team assessment or penetration test.
It is developed by Edge Security.
Dig Web Interface
Dig Web Interface is an online tool.
Google Hacking Diggity
Google Hacking Diggity is a tool for Google hacking. It is developed by American company Bishop Fox, and NOT by Google.
NetScanTools Pro
NetScanTools Pro is a set of network tools.
TinEye
TinEye is a footprinting tool.
White Pages
Ping-Probe
SpiderFoot
Metagoofil
BiLE Suite
BiLE Suite
Discontinued footprinting tools
List of discontinued footpriting tools:
- DNS-Digger
- irpas Tctrace
- irpas Netmask
- irpas Autonomous System Scanner (ASS)
DNS-Digger
DNS-Digger was an online tool. It stop working by 2018.
irpas Tctrace
Tctrace was a footprinting tool.
It was included in the package irpas (Internetwork Routing Protocol Attack Suite), developed by phenoelit.
irpas Netmask
Netmask was a footprinting tool.
It was included in the package irpas (Internetwork Routing Protocol Attack Suite), developed by phenoelit.
irpas Autonomous System Scanner (ASS)
Autonomous System Scanner (ASS) was a Linux terminal command
It was iincluded in the package irpas (Internetwork Routing Protocol Attack Suite), developed by phenoelit.
The package was available on distributions like Ubuntu.