Introduction #
What is OSINT? OSINT stand for Opensource Intelegence, then what is google dorking? refers to here.
“Google hacking, also named Google dorking, is a hacker technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites are using.”
~ wiki
So, in ethically it should be safe, because the information is Opensource! but its not when you do something to the information that you have found.
The information still own by someone, its become legal because google provide it to us, breach data information are not our fault! in technically google auto crawl that site for SEO purpose.
All confidential breach that cause by google are not google fault, blame webmaster!
webmaster are should make prevention by implement robots.txt then create policy for it, to make google crawl bot will not indexing what we want.
Then where is the cheatsheet?
Cheatsheet #
This cheatsheet from SANS Institute, shoutout to all people behind.
Operator Examples #
| Operators | Finds Pages Containing |
|---|---|
This OSINT cheatsheet | the words This, OSINT and cheatsheet |
me OR what | either the word me or the word what |
“To each his own” | the exact phrase to each his own |
armbian -debian | the word armbian but NOT the word debian |
Star Wars Episode +III | This movie title, including the roman numeral III |
~boat loan | loan info for both the word boat and its synonyms: canoe, ferry, etc. |
define:stupid | definitions of the word stupid from the Web |
archlinux * elitist | the words archlinux and elitist separated by exactly one word |
Advanced Operator Examples #
| Advanced Operators | Meaning | What To Type Into Search Box (& Description of Results) |
|---|---|---|
| site: | Search only one websites | about site:zphr.xyz (Search only zphr.xyz site for about information) |
| [#]…[#] or numrange: | Search within a range of numbers | plasma television $1000...1500 (Search for plasma televisions between $1000 and $1500) |
| date: | Search only a range of months | hockey date: 3 (Search for hockey references within past 3 months; 6 and 12-month date-restrict options also available) |
| safesearch: | Exclude adult-content | safesearch: sex education (Search for sex education material without returning adult sites) |
| link: | linked pages | link:zphr.xyz (Find pages that link to the zphr.xyz website) |
| info: | Info about a page | info:zphr.xyz (Find information about the zphr.xyz website) |
| related: | Related pages | related:zphr.xyz (Find websites related to the zphr.xyz website) |
| intitle: | Searches for strings in the title of the pages | intitle:linux (Find pages with “linux” in the page title) |
| allintitle: | Searches for all strings within the page title | allintitle:linux distro (Find pages with “linux” and “zphr.xyz” in the page title. the page title Doesn’t combine well with other operators) |
| inurl: | Searches for strings in the URL | inurl:conference (Find pages with the string “conference” in the URL) |
| filetype: or ext: | Searches for files with that file extension | gov filetype:ppt (Find files with the “ppt” in gov words file extension. “.ppt” are MS PowerPoint files.) |
| cache: | Display the Google cache of the page | cache: zphr.xyz (Show the cached version of the page without performing the search) |
| phonebook: or rphonebook: or bphonebook: | Display all, residential, business phone listings | phonebook:Rick Smith MD (Find all phone book listing for Rick Smith in Maryland. Cannot combine with other searches) |
| author: | Searches for the author of a newsgroup post | author:Rick (Find all newsgroup postings with “Rick” in the author name or email address. Must be used with a Google Group search) |
| insubject: | Search only in the subject of a newsgroup post | insubject:zphr.xyz (Find all newsgroup postings with “zphr.xyz” in the subject of the post. Must be used with a Google Group search) |
| define: | Various definitions of the word or phrase | define:copyleft (Get the definition of the word sarcastic |
| stock: | Get information on a stock abbreviation | stock:TSLA (Get the stock information for Musk Tesla.) |
The end #
Use with your own risk!