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Reconnaissance Tasks

This chapter covers the following recipes:

Performing IP address geolocation
Getting information from WHOIS records
Obtaining traceroute geolocation information
Querying Shodan to obtain target information
Checking whether a host is flagged by Google Safe Browsing for malicious activities
Collecting valid e-mail accounts and IP addresses from web servers
Discovering hostnames pointing to the same IP address
Discovering hostnames by brute forcing DNS records
Obtaining profile information from Google's People API
Matching services with public vulnerability advisories

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