Google Dorks: Utilizing Search Engines
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Definition
It is an act of searching using google.com to find anything that is left behind by sys-admin or web developer, which is not meant to be public consumption.
Special google search operators
Before starting with google dorks, you need to have a basic understanding of a few special google search operators and also how it functions.
- intitle:
This will ask google to show pages that have the term in their HTML title.
2. inurl:
Searches for specified term in the URL. For example: inurl:register.php
3. filetype:
Searched for a certain file type. Example: filetype:pdf will search for all the pdf files on the websites.
4. ext:
It works similar to filetype. Example: ext:pdf finds pdf extension files.
5. intext:
This will search the content of the page. This works somewhat like plain google search
6. site:
This limits the search to a specific site only. Example: site:abc@d.com will limit search to only abc@d.com.
7. Cache:
This will show you cached version of any website. Example: cache: aa.com
8. *
This works like a wildcard. Example: How to * sites, will show you all the results like “how to…” design/create/hack, etc… “sites”
Basic Formula of Dork
"inurl:."domain"/"dorks" "Here,
“inurl” = input URL
“domain” = your desired domain ex. .gov
“dorks” = your dork of your choice
Useful Google Dorks Example
- “Index of /admin”
- “Index of /cgi-bin”
- “Index of /credit-card”
- “Index of /logs”
- “Index of /config”
- “Index of /admin.asp”
- “Index of /login.asp”
- “Index of /passwd”
- “Index of /password”
- “Index of /” + passwd
- “Index of /” + password.txt
- “Index of /secret”
- “Index of /confidential”
- “Index of /root”
Syntax “intitle:”, “allintitle:” combination:
- intitle: “Index of” .sh_history
- intitle: “Index of”.bash_history
- intitle: “Index of” passwd
- intitle: “Index of” people.lst
- intitle: “Index of” pwd.db
- intitle: “Index of” etc/shadow
- intitle: “Index of” htpasswd
- allintitle: sensitive filetype:doc
- allintitle: restricted filetype :mail
- allintitle: *.php?filename=*
- allintitle:*.php?page=*
- allintitle: *.php?logon=*
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