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The whois
tool can also be used on IP addresses (in which case it will do a reverse lookup):
whois $IP_ADDRESS
Google search operators/hacks:
site:
- restrict search to the specified domainfiletype:
- only return results for a given file type (php, html, pdf, etc.)You can get a lot of additional server and DNS information using https://searchdns.netcraft.com/. This can also turn up subdomains.
“The Harvester” is a tool for harvesting email addresses and subdomains from public websites.
theHarvester -d $EMAIL_DOMAIN -b $SERVICE_TO_SEARCH
Give it an IP, get back open ports, service versions, etc. There’s a lot of overlap with Netcraft, though not enough to make either tool redundant.
Shodan supports a lot of different filters for different services, IoT devices, vulnerabilities, etc.
See if you can find accounts that are linked to your target, and then look for the questions they’ve asked. Sometimes the “answers” are not actually secure, and can be exploited!