Metagoofil

Metagoogil is a tool that utilizes the Google search engine to get metadata from the documents available in the target domain. Currently, it supports the following document types:

• Word document (.docx, .doc)
• Spreadsheet document (.xlsx, .xls, .ods)
• Presentation file (.pptx, .ppt, .odp)
• PDF file (.pdf)

Metagoogil works by performing the following actions:

• Searching for all of the preceding file types in the target domain using the Google search engine
• Downloading all of the documents found and saving them to the local disk
• Extracting the metadata from the downloaded documents
• Saving the result in an HTML file

The metadata that can be found are as follows:

• Usernames
• Software versions
• Server or machine names

This information can be used later on to help in the penetration testing phase. Metagoogil is not part of the standard Kali Linux v 2.0 distribution. To install, all you need to do is use the apt-get command:

# apt-get install metagoofil

After the installer package has finished, you can access...