Introduction

One of the most important stages of an attack is information gathering. To be able to launch an attack, we need to gather basic information about our target. So, the more information we get, the higher the probability of a successful attack.

I also want to emphasize an important aspect of this stage, and it's the documentation. The latest Kali release available at the time of writing this book includes a few tools to help us collate and organize the data from the target, allowing us to get a better reconnaissance. Tools such as Maltego CaseFile and KeepNote are examples of it.