List of Footprinting Tools

In the context of cybersecurity, footprinting is the technique used for gathering information about computer systems and the entities they belong to.

This post may mix footprinting and reconnaissance tools.

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.

Official web

recon-ng

recon-ng is an open source intelligence gathering tool.

Official site at GitHub

ReconDog

ReconDog is an open source intelligence

Official site at GitHub

reNgine

reNgine is an automated reconnaissance framework for web applications.

It is FOSS under a GPL 3.0 license.

You can read this external article about reNgine from HelpNetSecurity.

reNgine repository

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.

FOCA code repository

NSLOOKUP

NSLOOKUP is an online tool.

Official website

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.

OSRFramework code repository

Prefix WhoIs

Prefix WhoIs provides a whois-compatible client and server framework for disclosing various up-to-date routing information

Official website

LHF (Low Hanging Fruit)

LHF (Low Hanging Fruit) is a a toolset for finding unsecured Raspberry Pis.

LHF code repository

Sni1per

Sni1per is an open-source pentesting toolkit.

Official website

Project at GitHub

CloudFail

CloudFail

Official link

Aquatone

Aquatone is an open-source project.

michenriksen’s project at GitHub (read-only)

nielsin’s project at GitHub

GMapCatcher

GMapCatcher is an online map viewer.

Project at GitHub

Reconnoitre

Reconnoitre is an open-source project.

Project at GitHub

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.

Official web

Robtex

Robtex is an online tool.

Official website

SearchBug

SearchBug

Official website

ZabaSearch.com

ZabaSearch.com is an online tool.

Official website

Metasploit

Metasploit is an open source project.

Official web

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.

Project at GitHub

Dig Web Interface

Dig Web Interface is an online tool.

Official website

Google Hacking Diggity

Google Hacking Diggity is a tool for Google hacking. It is developed by American company Bishop Fox, and NOT by Google.

Official website

NetScanTools Pro

NetScanTools Pro is a set of network tools.

Official website

TinEye

TinEye is a footprinting tool.

Official web

White Pages

Official web

Ping-Probe

Official web

SpiderFoot

Official web

Metagoofil

Metagoofil code repository

BiLE Suite

BiLE Suite

Project at GitHub

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.

Official website

irpas Tctrace

Tctrace was a footprinting tool.

It was included in the package irpas (Internetwork Routing Protocol Attack Suite), developed by phenoelit.

Official website

irpas Netmask

Netmask was a footprinting tool.

It was included in the package irpas (Internetwork Routing Protocol Attack Suite), developed by phenoelit.

Official website

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.

Official website

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