Reconnaissance tool
One of the tools that can be used to help us with reconnaissance is recon-ng. It is a framework to automate reconnaissance and discovery processes. If you are familiar with the Metasploit interface, you should feel at home when using recon-ng—the interface is modeled after the Metasploit interface.
Kali Linux has already included recon-ng version 4.7.2. If you want a newer version, you can download it from https://bitbucket.org/LaNMaSteR53/recon-ng/overview.
The recon-ng tool comes with modules for the reconnaissance and discovery processes. The following are the module categories are included in recon-ng version 4.7.2:
- Reconnaissance modules
- Seven Reporting modules
- Two Import modules
- Two Exploitation modules
- Two Discovery modules
To use the recon-ng tool, you can type the following command:
# recon-ng
After running this command, you will see the recon-ng prompt. It is very similar to the Metasploit prompt:
To find out the commands supported by recon-ng, you can type help...
