Everyone probably knows how to use a search engine like Google =) But not everyone knows that if you correctly compose a search query using special structures, you can achieve the results of what you are looking for much more efficiently and faster =) In this article I will try to show that and how you need to do to search correctly
Google supports several advanced search operators that have special meaning when searching on google.com. Typically, these operators modify the search, or even tell Google to do completely different types of searches. For example, the design link: is a special operator, and the query link:www.google.com will not give you a normal search, but will instead find all web pages that have links to google.com.
alternative request types
cache: If you include other words in the query, Google will highlight those included words within the cached document.
For instance, cache:www.web site will show cached content with the word "web" highlighted.
link: the above search query will show web pages that contain links to the specified query.
For instance: link:www.website will display all pages that have a link to http://www.site
related: Displays web pages that are "related" to the specified web page.
For instance, related: www.google.com will list web pages that are similar to the Google home page.
info: Request Information: will provide some information that Google has about the requested web page.
For instance, info:website will show information about our forum =) (Armada - Forum of adult webmasters).
Other information requests
define: The define: query will provide a definition of the words you type after this, compiled from various online sources. The definition will be for the entire phrase entered (that is, it will include all words in the exact query).
stocks: If you start a query with stocks: Google will treat the rest of the query terms as stock ticker symbols, and link to a page showing the prepared information for these symbols.
For instance, stocks: intel yahoo will show information about Intel and Yahoo. (Note that you must print breaking news characters, not the company name)
Request Modifiers
site: If you include site: in your query, Google will limit the results to the websites it finds in that domain.
You can also search for individual zones, such as ru, org, com, etc ( site:com site:ru)
allintitle: If you run a query with allintitle:, Google will limit the results with all the query words in the title.
For instance, allintitle: google search will return all Google search pages like images, Blog, etc
title: If you include intitle: in your query, Google will restrict results to documents containing that word in the title.
For instance, title:Business
allinurl: If you run a query with allinurl: Google will limit the results with all the query words in the URL.
For instance, allinurl: google search will return documents with google and search in the title. Also, as an option, you can separate words with a slash (/) then the words on both sides of the slash will be searched within the same page: Example allinurl: foo/bar
inurl: If you include inurl: in your query, Google will limit the results to documents containing that word in the URL.
For instance, Animation inurl:website
intext: searches only in the text of the page for the specified word, ignoring the title and texts of links, and other things not related to. There is also a derivative of this modifier - allintext: those. further, all words in the query will be searched only in the text, which is also important, ignoring frequently used words in links
For instance, intext:forum
daterange: searches in time frames (daterange:2452389-2452389), dates for time are specified in Julian format.
Well, and all sorts of interesting examples of requests
Examples of compiling queries for Google. For spammers
inurl:control.guest?a=sign
Site:books.dreambook.com “Homepage URL” “Sign my” inurl:sign
Site:www.freegb.net Homepage
Inurl:sign.asp "Character Count"
"Message:" inurl:sign.cfm "Sender:"
inurl:register.php “User Registration” “Website”
Inurl:edu/guestbook “Sign the Guestbook”
Inurl:post "Post Comment" "URL"
Inurl:/archives/ “Comments:” “Remember info?”
“Script and Guestbook Created by:” “URL:” “Comments:”
inurl:?action=add “phpBook” “URL”
Intitle:"Submit New Story"
Magazines
inurl:www.livejournal.com/users/mode=reply
inurl greatestjournal.com/mode=reply
Inurl:fastbb.ru/re.pl?
inurl:fastbb.ru /re.pl? "Guest book"
Blogs
Inurl:blogger.com/comment.g?”postID”"anonymous"
Inurl:typepad.com/ “Post a comment” “Remember personal info?”
Inurl:greatestjournal.com/community/ “Post comment” “addresses of anonymous posters”
“Post comment” “addresses of anonymous posters” -
Intitle:"Post comment"
Inurl:pirillo.com “Post comment”
Forums
Inurl:gate.html?”name=Forums” “mode=reply”
inurl:”forum/posting.php?mode=reply”
inurl:”mes.php?”
inurl:”members.html”
inurl:forum/memberlist.php?”
Receiving private data does not always mean hacking - sometimes it is published in the public domain. Knowing the Google settings and a little ingenuity will allow you to find a lot of interesting things - from credit card numbers to FBI documents.
Everything is connected to the Internet today, caring little about restricting access. Therefore, many private data become the prey of search engines. Spider robots are no longer limited to web pages, but index all content available on the Web and constantly add confidential information to their databases. Learning these secrets is easy - you just need to know how to ask about them.
In capable hands, Google will quickly find everything that is bad on the Web, such as personal information and files for official use. They are often hidden like a key under a rug: there are no real access restrictions, the data just lies in the back of the site, where links do not lead. The standard Google web interface provides only basic advanced search settings, but even these will be enough.
There are two operators you can use to restrict Google searches to files of a certain type: filetype and ext . The first sets the format that the search engine determined by the file header, the second - the file extension, regardless of its internal content. When searching in both cases, you need to specify only the extension. Initially, the ext operator was convenient to use in cases where there were no specific format characteristics for the file (for example, to search for ini and cfg configuration files, inside of which anything can be). Now Google's algorithms have changed, and there is no visible difference between the operators - the results are the same in most cases.
By default, Google searches for words and in general for any characters entered in all files on indexed pages. You can limit the search scope by the top-level domain, a specific site, or by the location of the desired sequence in the files themselves. For the first two options, the site statement is used, followed by the name of the domain or the selected site. In the third case, a whole set of operators allows you to search for information in service fields and metadata. For example, allinurl will find the specified in the body of the links themselves, allinanchor - in the text provided with the tag , allintitle - in the page headers, allintext - in the body of the pages.
For each operator there is a lighter version with a shorter name (without the prefix all). The difference is that allinurl will find links with all words, while inurl will only find links with the first of them. The second and subsequent words from the query can appear anywhere on web pages. The inurl operator also differs from another similar in meaning - site . The first one also allows you to find any sequence of characters in the link to the desired document (for example, /cgi-bin/), which is widely used to find components with known vulnerabilities.
Let's try it in practice. We take the allintext filter and make the query return a list of credit card numbers and verification codes, which will expire only after two years (or when their owners get tired of feeding everyone in a row).
Allintext: card number expiration date /2017 cvv 
When you read on the news that a young hacker "hacked into the servers" of the Pentagon or NASA, stealing classified information, then in most cases it is precisely this elementary technique of using Google. Suppose we are interested in a list of NASA employees and their contact details. Surely such a list is in electronic form. For convenience or due to an oversight, it can also lie on the organization's website itself. It is logical that in this case there will be no references to it, since it is intended for internal use. What words can be in such a file? At least - the field "address". It is easy to test all these assumptions.
inurl:nasa.gov filetype:xlsx "address"
Such finds are a pleasant trifle. The really solid catch comes from a more detailed knowledge of Google Webmaster Operators, the Web itself, and the structure of what you're looking for. Knowing the details, you can easily filter the output and refine the properties of the files you need in order to get really valuable data in the rest. It's funny that bureaucracy comes to the rescue here. It produces typical formulations that make it convenient to search for secret information that has accidentally leaked onto the Web.
For example, the Distribution statement, which is mandatory in the office of the US Department of Defense, means standardized restrictions on the distribution of a document. The letter A marks public releases in which there is nothing secret; B - intended for internal use only, C - strictly confidential, and so on up to F. Separately, there is the letter X, which marks especially valuable information that represents a state secret of the highest level. Let those who are supposed to do it on duty look for such documents, and we will limit ourselves to files with the letter C. According to DoDI 5230.24, such marking is assigned to documents containing a description of critical technologies that fall under export control. You can find such carefully guarded information on sites in the .mil top-level domain allocated to the US Army.
"DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT C" inurl:navy.mil 
It is very convenient that only sites from the US Department of Defense and its contract organizations are collected in the .mil domain. Domain-limited search results are exceptionally clean, and the titles speak for themselves. It is practically useless to search for Russian secrets in this way: chaos reigns in the .ru and .rf domains, and the names of many weapons systems sound like botanical (PP "Kiparis", self-propelled guns "Acacia") or even fabulous (TOS "Pinocchio").
By carefully examining any document from a site in the .mil domain, you can see other markers to refine your search. For example, a reference to the export restrictions "Sec 2751", which is also convenient to search for interesting technical information. From time to time, it is removed from official sites, where it once appeared, so if you can’t follow an interesting link in the search results, use the Google cache (cache operator) or the Internet Archive website.
In addition to accidentally declassified documents from government departments, links to personal files from Dropbox and other data storage services that create "private" links to publicly published data occasionally pop up in the Google cache. It's even worse with alternative and self-made services. For example, the following query finds the data of all Verizon clients that have an FTP server installed and actively using a router on their router.
Allinurl:ftp://verizon.net
There are now more than forty thousand such smart people, and in the spring of 2015 there were an order of magnitude more. Instead of Verizon.net, you can substitute the name of any well-known provider, and the more famous it is, the larger the catch can be. Through the built-in FTP server, you can see files on an external drive connected to the router. Usually this is a NAS for remote work, a personal cloud, or some kind of peer-to-peer file download. All the content of such media is indexed by Google and other search engines, so you can access files stored on external drives via a direct link.
Before the wholesale migration to the clouds, simple FTP servers, which also lacked vulnerabilities, ruled as remote storages. Many of them are still relevant today. For example, the popular WS_FTP Professional program stores configuration data, user accounts, and passwords in the ws_ftp.ini file. It is easy to find and read because all entries are stored in plain text and passwords are encrypted using the Triple DES algorithm after minimal obfuscation. In most versions, simply discarding the first byte is sufficient.
Decrypting such passwords is easy using the WS_FTP Password Decryptor utility or a free web service.
When talking about hacking an arbitrary site, they usually mean getting a password from logs and backups of CMS or e-commerce application configuration files. If you know their typical structure, then you can easily indicate the keywords. Lines like those found in ws_ftp.ini are extremely common. For example, Drupal and PrestaShop always have a user ID (UID) and a corresponding password (pwd), and all information is stored in files with the .inc extension. You can search for them like this:
"pwd=" "UID=" ext:inc
In the configuration files of SQL servers, user names and email addresses are stored in clear text, and instead of passwords, their MD5 hashes are recorded. Decrypting them, strictly speaking, is impossible, but you can find a match among known hash-password pairs.
Until now, there are DBMSs that do not even use password hashing. The configuration files of any of them can simply be viewed in the browser.
Intext:DB_PASSWORD filetype:env
With the advent of Windows servers, the place of configuration files was partly taken by the registry. You can search through its branches in exactly the same way, using reg as the file type. For example, like this:
Filetype:reg HKEY_CURRENT_USER "Password"=
Sometimes it is possible to get to classified information with the help of data accidentally opened and caught by Google. The ideal option is to find a list of passwords in some common format. Only desperate people can store account information in a text file, a Word document, or an Excel spreadsheet, but there are always enough of them.
Filetype:xls inurl:password
On the one hand, there are many means to prevent such incidents. It is necessary to specify adequate access rights in htaccess, patch CMS, do not use left scripts and close other holes. There is also a file with a robots.txt exclusion list, which prohibits search engines from indexing the files and directories specified in it. On the other hand, if the robots.txt structure on some server differs from the standard one, then it immediately becomes clear what they are trying to hide on it.
The list of directories and files on any site is preceded by the standard inscription index of. Since it must appear in the title for service purposes, it makes sense to limit its search to the intitle operator. Interesting stuff can be found in the /admin/, /personal/, /etc/ and even /secret/ directories.
Relevance is extremely important here: old vulnerabilities are closed very slowly, but Google and its search results are constantly changing. There is even a difference between the "last second" filter (&tbs=qdr:s at the end of the request url) and the "real time" filter (&tbs=qdr:1).
The time interval of the last file update date from Google is also implicitly indicated. Through the graphical web interface, you can select one of the typical periods (hour, day, week, and so on) or set a date range, but this method is not suitable for automation.
From the appearance of the address bar, one can only guess about a way to limit the output of results using the &tbs=qdr: construct. The letter y after it specifies a limit of one year (&tbs=qdr:y), m shows the results for the last month, w for the week, d for the past day, h for the last hour, n for the minute, and s for the give me a sec. The most recent results just made known to Google are found using the &tbs=qdr:1 filter.
If you need to write a tricky script, it will be useful to know that the date range is set in Google in Julian format through the daterange operator. For example, this is how you can find a list of PDF documents with the word confidential uploaded between January 1st and July 1st, 2015.
Confidential filetype:pdf daterange:2457024-2457205
The range is specified in Julian date format without decimals. It is inconvenient to translate them manually from the Gregorian calendar. It's easier to use a date converter.
In addition to specifying additional operators in the search query, they can be sent directly in the link body. For example, the filetype:pdf trait corresponds to the as_filetype=pdf construct. Thus, it is convenient to set any clarifications. Let's say that the output of results only from the Republic of Honduras is set by adding the construction cr=countryHN to the search URL, but only from the city of Bobruisk - gcs=Bobruisk . See the developer section for a complete list of .
Google's automation tools are designed to make life easier, but often add to the hassle. For example, a user's city is determined by the user's IP through WHOIS. Based on this information, Google not only balances the load between servers, but also changes the search results. Depending on the region, for the same query, different results will get to the first page, and some of them may turn out to be completely hidden. Feel like a cosmopolitan and search for information from any country will help its two-letter code after the directive gl=country . For example, the code for the Netherlands is NL, while the Vatican and North Korea do not have their own code in Google.
Often search results are littered even after using a few advanced filters. In this case, it is easy to refine the query by adding a few exception words to it (each of them is preceded by a minus sign). For example, banking , names , and tutorial are often used with the word Personal. Therefore, cleaner search results will show not a textbook example of a query, but a refined one:
Intitle:"Index of /Personal/" -names -tutorial -banking
A sophisticated hacker is distinguished by the fact that he provides himself with everything he needs on his own. For example, a VPN is a convenient thing, but either expensive or temporary and with restrictions. Signing up for yourself alone is too expensive. It's good that there are group subscriptions, and with the help of Google it's easy to become part of a group. To do this, just find the Cisco VPN configuration file, which has a rather non-standard PCF extension and a recognizable path: Program Files\Cisco Systems\VPN Client\Profiles . One request, and you join, for example, the friendly staff of the University of Bonn.
Filetype:pcf vpn OR Group
The passwords are stored in encrypted form, but Maurice Massard has already written a program to decrypt them and is providing it for free via thecampusgeeks.com.
With the help of Google, hundreds of different types of attacks and penetration tests are performed. There are many options, affecting popular programs, major database formats, numerous PHP vulnerabilities, clouds, and so on. Knowing exactly what you're looking for makes it much easier to get the information you need (especially the information you didn't intend to make public). Not only Shodan feeds interesting ideas, but any database of indexed network resources!
This article will be primarily useful for novice optimizers, because more advanced ones should already know everything about them. In order to use this article with maximum efficiency, it is desirable to know exactly which words need to be promoted to the right positions. If you're not sure about the word list yet, or use a keyword suggestion service, it's a bit confusing, but you can figure it out.
Important! Be sure, Google is well aware that ordinary users will not use them and only promotion specialists resort to their help. Therefore, Google may slightly distort the information provided.
Usage: intitle: word
Example: intitle: site promotion
Description: When using this operator, you will receive a list of pages that contain the word you are interested in in the title (title), in our case, this is the phrase "website promotion" in its entirety. Note that there should not be a space after the colon. The title of the page is important in ranking, so take your headings seriously. When using this variable, you can estimate the approximate number of competitors who also want to be in the top positions for this word.
Usage: inurl:phrase
Example: inurl: search engine optimization cost calculation
Description: This command shows sites or pages that have the original keyword in their URL. Note that there should not be a space after the colon.
Usage: inanchor:phrase
Example: inanchor:seo books
Description: Using this operator will help you see the pages that are linked to with the keyword being used. This is a very important command, but unfortunately search engines are reluctant to share this information with SEOs for obvious reasons. There are services, Linkscape and Majestic SEO, who are willing to provide you with this information for a fee, but rest assured, the information is worth it.
Also, it is worth remembering that now Google is paying more and more attention to the “trust” of the site and less and less to the link mass. Of course, links are still one of the most important factors, but “trust” is playing an increasingly significant role.
A combination of two variables gives good results, for example intitle:inanchor promotion:website promotion. And what do we see, the search engine will show us the main competitors, the page title of which contains the word “promotion” and incoming links with the anchor “website promotion”.
Unfortunately, this combination does not allow you to find out the "trust" of the domain, which, as we have already said, is a very important factor. For example, a lot of older corporate sites don't have as many links as their younger competitors, but they do have a lot of old links that pull those sites to the top of the search results.
Usage: site: site address
Example: site: www.aweb.com.ua
Description: With this command, you can see a list of pages that are indexed by the search engine and that it knows about. It is mainly used to learn about the pages of competitors and analyze them.
Usage: cache:page address
Example: cache:www.aweb.com.ua
Description: This command shows a “snapshot” of the page since the last time the robot visited the site and in general how it sees the page content. By checking the page cache date, you can determine how often robots visit the site. The more authoritative the site, the more often the robots visit it and, accordingly, the less authoritative (according to Google) the site, the less often the robots take pictures of the page.
Cache is very important when buying links. The closer the page caching date is to the link purchase date, the faster your link will be indexed by the Google search engine. Sometimes it turned out to find pages with a cache age of 3 months. By buying a link on such a site, you will only waste your money, because it is quite possible that the link will never be indexed.
Usage: link:url
Example: link:www.aweb.com.ua
Description: The link operator: searches for and displays pages that link to the specified url. It can be both the main page of the site and the internal one.
Usage: related:url
Example: related:www.aweb.com.ua
Description: The related: statement displays pages that the search engine thinks are similar to the specified page. For a human, all the resulting pages may not have anything similar, but for a search engine, they do.
Usage: info:url
Example: info: www.aweb.com.ua
Description: When using this operator, we will be able to get information about the page that is known to the search engine. This can be the author, publication date, and more. Additionally, on the search page, Google offers several actions at once that it can do with this page. Or, more simply, it will suggest using some of the operators that we described above.
Usage: allintitle:phrase
Example: allintitle:aweb promotion
Description: If we start a search query with this word, we'll get a list of pages that have the entire phrase in their title. For example, if we try to search for the word allintitle:aweb promotion, we get a list of pages that have both of these words in their titles. And it is not at all necessary that they should go one after another, they can be located in different places in the header.
Usage: allintext:word
Example: allintext:optimization
Description: This operator searches for all pages that contain the specified word in the text body. If we try to use allintext:aweb optimization, we will see a list of pages in the text of which these words occur. That is, not the entire phrase is “aweb optimization”, but both words are “optimization” and “aweb”.
Hacking with Google
Alexander Antipov
The Google search engine (www.google.com) provides many search options. All of these features are an invaluable search tool for a first-time Internet user and at the same time an even more powerful weapon of invasion and destruction in the hands of people with evil intentions, including not only hackers, but also non-computer criminals and even terrorists.
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Denis Batrankov
denisNOSPAMixi.ru
Attention:This article is not a guide to action. This article is written for you, WEB server administrators, so that you will lose the false feeling that you are safe, and you will finally understand the insidiousness of this method of obtaining information and set about protecting your site.
For example, I found 1670 pages in 0.14 seconds!
2. Let's enter another line, for example:
inurl:"auth_user_file.txt"a little less, but this is already enough for free download and for guessing passwords (using the same John The Ripper). Below I will give some more examples.
So, you need to realize that the Google search engine has visited most of the Internet sites and cached the information contained on them. This cached information allows you to get information about the site and the content of the site without a direct connection to the site, just digging into the information that is stored internally by Google. Moreover, if the information on the site is no longer available, then the information in the cache may still be preserved. All it takes for this method is to know some Google keywords. This technique is called Google Hacking.
For the first time, information about Google Hacking appeared on the Bugtruck mailing list 3 years ago. In 2001, this topic was raised by a French student. Here is a link to this letter http://www.cotse.com/mailing-lists/bugtraq/2001/Nov/0129.html . It gives the first examples of such requests:
1) Index of /admin
2) Index of /password
3) Index of /mail
4) Index of / +banques +filetype:xls (for france...)
5) Index of / +passwd
6) Index of/password.txt
This topic made a lot of noise in the English-reading part of the Internet quite recently: after an article by Johnny Long published on May 7, 2004. For a more complete study of Google Hacking, I advise you to go to the site of this author http://johnny.ihackstuff.com. In this article, I just want to bring you up to date.
Who can use it:
- Journalists, spies and all those people who like to poke their noses into other people's business can use this to search for compromising evidence.
- Hackers looking for suitable targets for hacking.
To continue the conversation, let me remind you of some of the keywords used in Google queries.
Search using the + sign
Google excludes unimportant, in its opinion, words from the search. For example, interrogative words, prepositions and articles in English: for example are, of, where. In Russian, Google seems to consider all words important. If the word is excluded from the search, then Google writes about it. In order for Google to start searching for pages with these words, you need to add a + sign before them without a space before the word. For instance:
ace + of base
Search by sign -
If Google finds a large number of pages from which you want to exclude pages with certain topics, then you can force Google to look only for pages that do not contain certain words. To do this, you need to indicate these words by putting a sign in front of each - without a space before the word. For instance:
fishing - vodka
Search with the ~ sign
You may want to look up not only the specified word, but also its synonyms. To do this, precede the word with the symbol ~.
Finding an exact phrase using double quotes
Google searches on each page for all occurrences of the words that you wrote in the query string, and it does not care about the relative position of the words, the main thing is that all the specified words are on the page at the same time (this is the default action). To find the exact phrase, you need to put it in quotation marks. For instance:
"bookend"
To have at least one of the specified words, you must specify the logical operation explicitly: OR. For instance:
book safety OR protection
In addition, you can use the * sign in the search string to denote any word and. to represent any character.
Finding words with additional operators
There are search operators that are specified in the search string in the format:
operator:search_term
The spaces next to the colon are not needed. If you insert a space after a colon, you will see an error message, and before it, Google will use them as a normal search string.
There are groups of additional search operators: languages - indicate in which language you want to see the result, date - limit the results for the past three, six or 12 months, occurrences - indicate where in the document you need to look for the string: everywhere, in the title, in the URL, domains - search the specified site or vice versa exclude it from the search, safe search - block sites containing the specified type of information and remove them from the search results pages.
However, some operators do not need an additional parameter, for example, the query " cache:www.google.com" can be called as a full search string, and some keywords, on the contrary, require a search word, for example " site:www.google.com help". In the light of our topic, let's look at the following operators:
Operator |
Description |
Requires an additional parameter? |
search only for the site specified in search_term |
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search only in documents with type search_term |
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find pages containing search_term in title |
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find pages containing all the words search_term in the title |
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find pages containing the word search_term in their address |
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find pages containing all the words search_term in their address |
Operator site: limits the search only on the specified site, and you can specify not only the domain name, but also the IP address. For example, enter:
Operator filetype: restricts searches to files of a certain type. For instance:
As of the date of this article, Google can search within 13 different file formats:
Operator link: shows all pages that point to the specified page.
It must always be interesting to see how many places on the Internet know about you. We try:
Operator cache: shows the Google cached version of the site as it looked when Google last visited the page. We take any frequently changing site and look:
Operator title: searches for the specified word in the page title. Operator allintitle: is an extension - it looks for all the specified few words in the page title. Compare:
intitle:flight to mars
intitle:flight intitle:on intitle:mars
allintitle:flight to mars
Operator inurl: causes Google to show all pages containing the specified string in the URL. allinurl: searches for all words in a URL. For instance:
allinurl:acid_stat_alerts.php
This command is especially useful for those who don't have SNORT - at least they can see how it works on a real system.
So, we found out that, using a combination of the above operators and keywords, anyone can collect the necessary information and search for vulnerabilities. These techniques are often referred to as Google Hacking.
You can use the site: statement to see all the links that Google has found on the site. Usually, pages that are dynamically created by scripts are not indexed using parameters, so some sites use ISAPI filters so that links are not in the form /article.asp?num=10&dst=5, but with slashes /article/abc/num/10/dst/5. This is done to ensure that the site is generally indexed by search engines.
Let's try:
site:www.whitehouse.gov whitehouse
Google thinks that every page on a site contains the word whitehouse. This is what we use to get all the pages.
There is also a simplified version:
site:whitehouse.gov
And the best part is that the comrades from whitehouse.gov didn't even know that we looked at the structure of their site and even looked into the cached pages that Google downloaded for itself. This can be used to study the structure of sites and view content without being noticed for the time being.
WEB servers can display server directory listings instead of regular HTML pages. This is usually done to force users to select and download specific files. However, in many cases administrators have no intention of showing the contents of a directory. This is due to a misconfiguration of the server or the absence of a master page in the directory. As a result, the hacker has a chance to find something interesting in the directory and use it for his own purposes. To find all such pages, it is enough to notice that they all contain the words: index of in their title. But since the index of words contain not only such pages, we need to refine the query and take into account the keywords on the page itself, so queries like:
intitle:index.of parent directory
intitle:index.of name size
Since most directory listings are intentional, you may have a hard time finding misplaced listings the first time. But at least you will be able to use the listings to determine the WEB server version, as described below.
Knowing the WEB server version is always helpful before starting any hacker attack. Again thanks to Google it is possible to get this information without connecting to a server. If you look closely at the directory listing, you can see that the name of the WEB server and its version are displayed there.
Apache1.3.29 - ProXad Server at trf296.free.fr Port 80
An experienced administrator can change this information, but, as a rule, it is true. Thus, to get this information, it is enough to send a request:
intitle:index.of server.at
To get information for a specific server, we refine the request:
intitle:index.of server.at site:ibm.com
Or vice versa, we are looking for servers running on a specific version of the server:
intitle:index.of Apache/2.0.40 Server at
This technique can be used by a hacker to find a victim. If, for example, he has an exploit for a certain version of the WEB server, then he can find it and try the existing exploit.
You can also get the server version by looking at the pages that are installed by default when installing a fresh version of the WEB server. For example, to see the Apache 1.2.6 test page, just type
intitle:Test.Page.for.Apache it.worked!
Moreover, some operating systems immediately install and launch the WEB server during installation. However, some users are not even aware of this. Naturally, if you see that someone has not deleted the default page, then it is logical to assume that the computer has not been subjected to any configuration at all and is probably vulnerable to attacks.
Try looking for IIS 5.0 pages
allintitle:Welcome to Windows 2000 Internet Services
In the case of IIS, you can determine not only the version of the server, but also the version of Windows and the Service Pack.
Another way to determine the version of the WEB server is to look for manuals (help pages) and examples that can be installed on the site by default. Hackers have found quite a few ways to use these components to gain privileged access to the site. That is why you need to remove these components on the production site. Not to mention the fact that by the presence of these components you can get information about the type of server and its version. For example, let's find the apache manual:
inurl:manual apache directives modules
CGI scanner or WEB scanner is a utility for searching for vulnerable scripts and programs on the victim's server. These utilities need to know what to look for, for this they have a whole list of vulnerable files, for example:
/cgi-bin/cgiemail/uargg.txt
/random_banner/index.cgi
/random_banner/index.cgi
/cgi-bin/mailview.cgi
/cgi-bin/maillist.cgi
/cgi-bin/userreg.cgi
/iissamples/ISSamples/SQLQHit.asp
/SiteServer/admin/findvserver.asp
/scripts/cphost.dll
/cgi-bin/finger.cgi
We can find each of these files using Google, using the words index of or inurl in addition to the file name in the search bar: we can find sites with vulnerable scripts, for example:
allinurl:/random_banner/index.cgi
With additional knowledge, a hacker could exploit a script vulnerability and use the vulnerability to force the script to serve any file stored on the server. For example a password file.
Even if you posted the data temporarily, you can forget about it or someone will have time to find and take this data before you erase it. Don't do it. There are many other ways to transfer data that protect it from theft.
Use the described methods to research your site. Check your site periodically for new methods that appear on the site http://johnny.ihackstuff.com. Remember that if you want to automate your actions, you need to get special permission from Google. If you carefully read http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html, then you will see the phrase: You may not send automated queries of any sort to Google's system without express permission in advance from Google.
Google allows you to remove a link to your site or part of it from its database, as well as remove pages from the cache. In addition, you can prohibit the search for images on your site, prohibit the display of short fragments of pages in search results All the possibilities for deleting a site are described on the page http://www.google.com/remove.html. To do this, you must confirm that you are really the owner of this site or insert tags on the page or
It is known that search engines look into the robots.txt file at the root of the site and do not index those parts that are marked with the word Disallow. You can use this to prevent part of the site from being indexed. For example, to avoid indexing the entire site, create a robots.txt file containing two lines:
User-agent: *
disallow: /
So that life does not seem like honey to you, I will say in the end that there are sites that follow those people who, using the above methods, look for holes in scripts and WEB servers. An example of such a page is
A little sweet. Try one of the following for yourself:
1. #mysql dump filetype:sql - search for mySQL database dumps
2. Host Vulnerability Summary Report - will show you what vulnerabilities other people have found
3. phpMyAdmin running on inurl:main.php - this will force close the control via phpmyadmin panel
4. Not for distribution confidential
5. Request Details Control Tree Server Variables
6. Running in child mode
7. This report was generated by WebLog
8. intitle:index.of cgiirc.config
9. filetype:conf inurl:firewall -intitle:cvs - maybe someone needs firewall configuration files? :)
10. intitle:index.of finances.xls - hmm....
11. intitle:Index of dbconvert.exe chats - icq chat logs
12. intext:Tobias Oetiker traffic analysis
13. intitle:Usage Statistics for Generated by Webalizer
14. intitle:statistics of advanced web statistics
15. intitle:index.of ws_ftp.ini - ws ftp config
16. inurl:ipsec.secrets holds shared secrets - secret key - good find
17. inurl:main.php Welcome to phpMyAdmin
18. inurl:server-info Apache Server Information
19. site:edu admin grades
20. ORA-00921: unexpected end of SQL command - get paths
21. intitle:index.of trillian.ini
22. intitle:Index of pwd.db
23. intitle:index.of people.lst
24. intitle:index.of master.passwd
25.inurl:passlist.txt
26. intitle:Index of .mysql_history
27. intitle:index of intext:globals.inc
28. intitle:index.of administrators.pwd
29. intitle:Index.of etc shadow
30. intitle:index.of secring.pgp
31. inurl:config.php dbuname dbpass
32. inurl:perform filetype:ini
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As you know, in the results of the issuance of many pages of sites, the date of their publication is displayed. Dates allow users to navigate search results and select pages with more up-to-date and up-to-date information.
In most cases, I myself prefer to go to pages that were published not so long ago, and I visit materials 3-5 years old or more much less often, since information in many topics often quickly becomes outdated and loses its relevance.
Do you think this article about Firefox plugins will get the maximum number of clicks from search if it is dated 2008?
Or my post on WordPress plugins from 2007:
I think not, because the information in these topics becomes outdated over the years.
I thought about how I can use this moment to increase traffic to the sites I promote. There are many "evergreen" topics in which the information practically does not become outdated, and materials published several years ago will also be useful and interesting for visitors.
For example, take the topic of dog training. There the basic principles have not changed for many years. At the same time, the owner of such a site will be sad 😉 when, in a few years, fewer visitors from the search results will go to his articles, as they will see the publication date and choose newer articles on other sites simply because they are more recent, although they may not be nearly as interesting or useful.
But if we take such topics as smartphones, gadgets, fashion, women's clothing, then the information in them becomes outdated very quickly and loses its relevance. They do not make sense to remove the date from the search results.
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Dessert for today - a fascinating video about how one boy rides a bike 😉 . It is better for the faint of heart and impressionable people not to watch 🙂:
