https://iclass.eccouncil.org/topic/module-2-lab-4-task-1/

✅ Lab Summary: Perform Footprinting Through Search Engines

Lab Objective:

To perform passive reconnaissance on a target organization by leveraging advanced Google hacking techniques and other search engine-based queries. This phase of ethical hacking is vital to enumerate publicly exposed information such as login portals, sensitive documents, or internal resources, all without direct interaction with the target’s systems.

🔹 Task 1: Gather Information Using Advanced Google Hacking Techniques

🧩 Part A: Accessing the Target Environment

• Launched a pre-configured Windows 11 virtual machine
• Logged in using credentials Admin/Pa$$w0rd
• Enabled network discovery to allow the system to interact on the same simulated network
• Opened a Firefox browser to begin the footprinting process via https://www.google.com

🧩 Part B: Extracting Login Pages with intitle: and site: Operators

• Searched:

  intitle:login site:eccouncil.org
  

• Purpose: To identify pages on the target domain (eccouncil.org) containing the word “login” in their title.

• Observation: These login endpoints could be exploited via credential brute-forcing, phishing, or other web application attacks.

• Relevance: Helps identify authentication interfaces for further testing or defense review.

🧩 Part C: Finding Public Documents Using filetype: Operator