Friday, June 3, 2011

Information Gathering



Information Gathering (target : www.akakom.ac.id)

Information Gathering is the first phase in a web penetration, that is seeking as much information from the application target. From this information would then be determined what kind of penetration we need.

  • Testing : spiders, robot, and crawlers

    Find robots.txt file form web target www.akakom.ac.id the purpose of identifying robots file is to look at the structure of web content.

    Information from www.akakom.ac.id/robots.txt, it’s about web content structure directory.Result and snapshot:


black box testing retrieve robots.txt file from target www.akakom.ac.id then analyze this file

  • Search Engine Discovery / Reconnaissancethis testing for collect information from search engine

    using key “site:akakom.ac.id” to find the web content of www.akakom.ac.idResult and snapshot :


using key cache “cache:akakom.ac.id”to display index.html as cached by google

result and snapshot :
  • Identify Application Entry Points

    this test for collect information when GET are used and where POST request are used.

    (i’m used burpsuit)Result :
Action URL : http://www.akakom.ac.id/index.php?option=com_user&lang=id

method : POST

Action URL : http://www.akakom.ac.id/index.php?option=com_user&lang=id&task=remindusername

method : GET
  • Testing For Web Application Fingerprint

    this test for collect information about the web engine (example : version and type web server)

    i’m use netcut :

    nc 110.76.151.4 80 : no responsethen i’m use manta browser, and i’m found a little information about version and web serverResult and screenshot :


online testing with netcraft (www.netcraft.com)

  • Application Discovery

    blackbox testing

    using nmap

Result :
  • apache http server running on port 80
  • apache ssl/http server running on port 443
  • openssh running on port 22
  • Analysis Of Error Codes
    get some error code helps us determine the penetration of the web such as what to use.
    black box testing
    root@bt:~# GET www.akakom.ac.id/bella.html HTTP/1.1

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN”>

    <html><head>


    <title>404 Not Found</title>

    </head><body>

    <h1>Not Found</h1>

    <p>The requested URL /bella.html was not found on this server.</p>

    <hr>


    <address>Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at www.akakom.ac.id Port 80</address>

    </body></html>

this article taken from one of the team's log, original source: http://mimmoo.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/day-2-information-gathering/

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