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...