Automating Recon

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While manual reconnaissance can be effective, it can also be time-consuming and prone to human error. Automating web reconnaissance tasks can significantly enhance efficiency and accuracy, allowing you to gather information at scale and identify potential vulnerabilities more rapidly.

Why Automate Reconnaissance?

Automation offers several key advantages for web reconnaissance:

• Efficiency: Automated tools can perform repetitive tasks much faster than humans, freeing up valuable time for analysis and decision-making.

• Scalability: Automation allows you to scale your reconnaissance efforts across a large number of targets or domains, uncovering a broader scope of information.

• Consistency: Automated tools follow predefined rules and procedures, ensuring consistent and reproducible results and minimising the risk of human error.

• Comprehensive Coverage: Automation can be programmed to perform a wide range of reconnaissance tasks, including DNS enumeration, subdomain discovery, web crawling, port scanning, and more, ensuring thorough coverage of potential attack vectors.

• Integration: Many automation frameworks allow for easy integration with other tools and platforms, creating a seamless workflow from reconnaissance to vulnerability assessment and exploitation.

Reconnaissance Frameworks

These frameworks aim to provide a complete suite of tools for web reconnaissance:

• FinalRecon: A Python-based reconnaissance tool offering a range of modules for different tasks like SSL certificate checking, Whois information gathering, header analysis, and crawling. Its modular structure enables easy customisation for specific needs.

• Recon-ng: A powerful framework written in Python that offers a modular structure with various modules for different reconnaissance tasks. It can perform DNS enumeration, subdomain discovery, port scanning, web crawling, and even exploit known vulnerabilities.

• theHarvester: Specifically designed for gathering email addresses, subdomains, hosts, employee names, open ports, and banners from different public sources like search engines, PGP key servers, and the SHODAN database. It is a command-line tool written in Python.

• SpiderFoot: An open-source intelligence automation tool that integrates with various data sources to collect information about a target, including IP addresses, domain names, email addresses, and social media profiles. It can perform DNS lookups, web crawling, port scanning, and more.

• OSINT Framework: A collection of various tools and resources for open-source intelligence gathering. It covers a wide range of information sources, including social media, search engines, public records, and more.

FinalRecon

FinalRecon offers a wealth of recon information:

• Header Information: Reveals server details, technologies used, and potential security misconfigurations.

• Whois Lookup: Uncovers domain registration details, including registrant information and contact details.

• SSL Certificate Information: Examines the SSL/TLS certificate for validity, issuer, and other relevant details.

• Crawler:

  • HTML, CSS, JavaScript: Extracts links, resources, and potential vulnerabilities from these files.

  • Internal/External Links: Maps out the website's structure and identifies connections to other domains.

  • Images, robots.txt, sitemap.xml: Gathers information about allowed/disallowed crawling paths and website structure.

  • Links in JavaScript, Wayback Machine: Uncovers hidden links and historical website data.

• DNS Enumeration: Queries over 40 DNS record types, including DMARC records for email security assessment.

• Subdomain Enumeration: Leverages multiple data sources (crt.sh, AnubisDB, ThreatMiner, CertSpotter, Facebook API, VirusTotal API, Shodan API, BeVigil API) to discover subdomains.

• Directory Enumeration: Supports custom wordlists and file extensions to uncover hidden directories and files.

• Wayback Machine: Retrieves URLs from the last five years to analyse website changes and potential vulnerabilities.

Installation is quick and easy:

0xH4shDumb@htb[/htb]$ git clone https://github.com/thewhiteh4t/FinalRecon.git
0xH4shDumb@htb[/htb]$ cd FinalRecon
0xH4shDumb@htb[/htb]$ pip3 install -r requirements.txt
0xH4shDumb@htb[/htb]$ chmod +x ./finalrecon.py
0xH4shDumb@htb[/htb]$ ./finalrecon.py --help

usage: finalrecon.py [-h] [--url URL] [--headers] [--sslinfo] [--whois]
                     [--crawl] [--dns] [--sub] [--dir] [--wayback] [--ps]
                     [--full] [-nb] [-dt DT] [-pt PT] [-T T] [-w W] [-r] [-s]
                     [-sp SP] [-d D] [-e E] [-o O] [-cd CD] [-k K]

FinalRecon - All in One Web Recon | v1.1.6

optional arguments:
  -h, --help  show this help message and exit
  --url URL   Target URL
  --headers   Header Information
  --sslinfo   SSL Certificate Information
  --whois     Whois Lookup
  --crawl     Crawl Target
  --dns       DNS Enumeration
  --sub       Sub-Domain Enumeration
  --dir       Directory Search
  --wayback   Wayback URLs
  --ps        Fast Port Scan
  --full      Full Recon

Extra Options:
  -nb         Hide Banner
  -dt DT      Number of threads for directory enum [ Default : 30 ]
  -pt PT      Number of threads for port scan [ Default : 50 ]
  -T T        Request Timeout [ Default : 30.0 ]
  -w W        Path to Wordlist [ Default : wordlists/dirb_common.txt ]
  -r          Allow Redirect [ Default : False ]
  -s          Toggle SSL Verification [ Default : True ]
  -sp SP      Specify SSL Port [ Default : 443 ]
  -d D        Custom DNS Servers [ Default : 1.1.1.1 ]
  -e E        File Extensions [ Example : txt, xml, php ]
  -o O        Export Format [ Default : txt ]
  -cd CD      Change export directory [ Default : ~/.local/share/finalrecon ]
  -k K        Add API key [ Example : shodan@key ]

To get started, you will first clone the FinalRecon repository from GitHub using git clone https://github.com/thewhiteh4t/FinalRecon.git. This will create a new directory named "FinalRecon" containing all the necessary files.

Next, navigate into the newly created directory with cd FinalRecon. Once inside, you will install the required Python dependencies using pip3 install -r requirements.txt. This ensures that FinalRecon has all the libraries and modules it needs to function correctly.

To ensure that the main script is executable, you will need to change the file permissions using chmod +x ./finalrecon.py. This allows you to run the script directly from your terminal.

Finally, you can verify that FinalRecon is installed correctly and get an overview of its available options by running ./finalrecon.py --help. This will display a help message with details on how to use the tool, including the various modules and their respective options:

Option	Argument	Description
-h, --help		Show the help message and exit.
--url	URL	Specify the target URL.
--headers		Retrieve header information for the target URL.
--sslinfo		Get SSL certificate information for the target URL.
--whois		Perform a Whois lookup for the target domain.
--crawl		Crawl the target website.
--dns		Perform DNS enumeration on the target domain.
--sub		Enumerate subdomains for the target domain.
--dir		Search for directories on the target website.
--wayback		Retrieve Wayback URLs for the target.
--ps		Perform a fast port scan on the target.
--full		Perform a full reconnaissance scan on the target.

For instance, if we want FinalRecon to gather header information and perform a Whois lookup for inlanefreight.com, we would use the corresponding flags (--headers and --whois), so the command would be:

0xH4shDumb@htb[/htb]$ ./finalrecon.py --headers --whois --url http://inlanefreight.com

 ______  __   __   __   ______   __
/\  ___\/\ \ /\ "-.\ \ /\  __ \ /\ \
\ \  __\\ \ \\ \ \-.  \\ \  __ \\ \ \____
 \ \_\   \ \_\\ \_\\"\_\\ \_\ \_\\ \_____\
  \/_/    \/_/ \/_/ \/_/ \/_/\/_/ \/_____/
 ______   ______   ______   ______   __   __
/\  == \ /\  ___\ /\  ___\ /\  __ \ /\ "-.\ \
\ \  __< \ \  __\ \ \ \____\ \ \/\ \\ \ \-.  \
 \ \_\ \_\\ \_____\\ \_____\\ \_____\\ \_\\"\_\
  \/_/ /_/ \/_____/ \/_____/ \/_____/ \/_/ \/_/

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[>] Version      : 1.1.6

[+] Target : http://inlanefreight.com

[+] IP Address : 134.209.24.248

[!] Headers :

Date : Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:08:00 GMT
Server : Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu)
Link : <https://www.inlanefreight.com/index.php/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/", <https://www.inlanefreight.com/index.php/wp-json/wp/v2/pages/7>; rel="alternate"; type="application/json", <https://www.inlanefreight.com/>; rel=shortlink
Vary : Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding : gzip
Content-Length : 5483
Keep-Alive : timeout=5, max=100
Connection : Keep-Alive
Content-Type : text/html; charset=UTF-8

[!] Whois Lookup : 

   Domain Name: INLANEFREIGHT.COM
   Registry Domain ID: 2420436757_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
   Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.registrar.amazon.com
   Registrar URL: http://registrar.amazon.com
   Updated Date: 2023-07-03T01:11:15Z
   Creation Date: 2019-08-05T22:43:09Z
   Registry Expiry Date: 2024-08-05T22:43:09Z
   Registrar: Amazon Registrar, Inc.
   Registrar IANA ID: 468
   Registrar Abuse Contact Email: [e-mail]
   Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: [phone]
   Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
   Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
   Name Server: NS-1303.AWSDNS-34.ORG
   Name Server: NS-1580.AWSDNS-05.CO.UK
   Name Server: NS-161.AWSDNS-20.COM
   Name Server: NS-671.AWSDNS-19.NET
   DNSSEC: unsigned
   URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form: https://www.icann.org/wicf/


[+] Completed in 0:00:00.257780

[+] Exported : /home/htb-ac-643601/.local/share/finalrecon/dumps/fr_inlanefreight.com_11-06-2024_11:07:59

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