Task1 --Google Reconnaissance

Question 1 – Google Reconnaissance (5 marks)

Complete project 1-2, page 31 from the text book. Take screenshots of steps 4, 5, 6, 7. Take 2 more screenshots that display the contents of documents that expose account names. Provide a description of each screenshot.

Answer 1

(Step 04)

Google (www.google.com) is the most powerful search engine in the web technology which is widely used every second by everypart of the world with its multi-linguistic option. In this task today, I'm going to test some of the advanced search features of the google.com, in which I'm trying to search the search with keyword of "login:*" "password=" with the file type Microsoft excel (.xls).

Below is the screen shot for the following task.

(Step 05)

Clicking the above Advance Search option button, we get the following results (weblinks)

and clicking one of the weblinks , the Microsoft excel (.xls) desired files appear in which all the login name and password has been listed in the spreadsheet

(Step 06)

Now below is the Advanced Search page which is look for the a text file which contains a list of password in the cleartext. but this time the keyword has been typed as "index.of passlist" and filetype selected as Any type. The screenshot is just posted here,

Clicking the Advanced Search Button the following weblink/webpages has been published by the google search engine , following is the resultant web pages

(Step 07)

Clicking upon one of the weblink/webpages in the above resultant Google page, we get the following information in the clear text format which again helps us to find the specific clear text format.

The Google search engine is developing day by day, many personnel are in the research to make it more powerful to make the searching more easier and enjoyable.