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What Is Recon ? Information Gathering 

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FootPrinting / Info Gathering 

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process of gathering & collecting data wrt a network or system.

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It reveals the system vulnerbailites & weaknesses that can be used to gain access or attack a system.

Types of FP:

Active: it directly gathers info frm wbsits like web servers, banner grbng web srvers ,bnr grbng ftp srvrs. 

Passive: No contact with the subject , info gatherd from third party like yahoo , diff search engines etc. Info that available publicaly.

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Steps to Info Gathering

1)finding the initial info 

2)address range of network

3)search active machines

4)find open ports or access points

5)services on each port

6)map of network

Techniques used:

kali Tools:

whois

netcraft

dmitry

recon-ng

dnsrecon

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