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Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By : Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali
Book Image

Kali Linux 2 - Assuring Security by Penetration Testing - Third Edition

By: Gerard Johansen, Lee Allen, Tedi Heriyanto, Shakeel Ali

Overview of this book

Kali Linux is a comprehensive penetration testing platform with advanced tools to identify, detect, and exploit the vulnerabilities uncovered in the target network environment. With Kali Linux, you can apply appropriate testing methodology with defined business objectives and a scheduled test plan, resulting in a successful penetration testing project engagement. Kali Linux – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing is a fully focused, structured book providing guidance on developing practical penetration testing skills by demonstrating cutting-edge hacker tools and techniques with a coherent, step-by-step approach. This book offers you all of the essential lab preparation and testing procedures that reflect real-world attack scenarios from a business perspective, in today's digital age.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Kali Linux 2 – Assuring Security by Penetration Testing Third Edition
Credits
Disclaimer
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Metagoofil


Metagoogil is a tool that utilizes the Google search engine to get metadata from the documents available in the target domain. Currently, it supports the following document types:

  • Word document (.docx, .doc)

  • Spreadsheet document (.xlsx, .xls, .ods)

  • Presentation file (.pptx, .ppt, .odp)

  • PDF file (.pdf)

Metagoogil works by performing the following actions:

  • Searching for all of the preceding file types in the target domain using the Google search engine

  • Downloading all of the documents found and saving them to the local disk

  • Extracting the metadata from the downloaded documents

  • Saving the result in an HTML file

The metadata that can be found are as follows:

  • Usernames

  • Software versions

  • Server or machine names

This information can be used later on to help in the penetration testing phase. Metagoofil is not part of the standard Kali Linux v 2.0 distribution. To install, all you need to do is use the apt-get command:

# apt-get install metagoofil

After the installer package has finished, you can...