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#OSINT Technique - Google Dorking

Google has a lot of power built into it’s search bar. It’s one of many tools used by #infosec to perform Open Source INTelligence research. Here are some dorks to find items of interest, edit and try them out! 🔎

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Searching a specific site and its subdomains 🏪

You don’t have to search the entire internet, you can focus a search to a specific site and its subdomains.

site: twitter.com 0xBanana
site: cnn.com juggling
Searching for a specific filetype 🧬

There are so many file types out there, using the filetype operator we can focus on types of interest.

Want to find: Videos? Documents? Zips? Try it out!

filetype: pdf
filetype: pptx

All formats 👇🏽
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_f…
In the title of the page 📰

Page titles tell us a lot about the page we're looking at and can be common across tools, companies, and developers. They're short and usually have important information or keywords in them.

intitle:"index of"
intitle: login
In the text of the page 📜

Searches for specific text contained on any web page, wrap multiple words in quotes.

intext:"Host Vulnerability Summary Report"
intext:"Network Vulnerability Summary Report"
intext:"Executive Summary"
Multiple Fields 📝

Some operators can be mixed while others can only be used alone. See img

site:cnn.com filetype:"xls | xlsx | doc | docx | ppt | pptx | pdf" (filetype OR)
site:cnn.com intext:"Japan" intext:"Juggling" intext:"emperor" (text AND)
What are some google dorks that you like?
What sort of things are you interested in finding?

File Dumps?
Corporate Secrets?
Login Portals?
Criminal Enterprises?

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