R3con1z3r – lightweight web information gathering tool

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Posted by Stella Sebastian January 22, 2021

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R3con1z3r
R3con1z3r

R3con1z3r is a lightweight web information gathering tool with an intuitive features written in python. It provides a powerful environment in which open source intelligence (OSINT) web-based footprinting can be conducted quickly and thoroughly.

Footprinting is the first phase of ethical hacking, its the collection of every possible information regarding the target. R3con1z3r is a passive reconnaissance tool with built-in functionalities which includes: HTTP header flag, Traceroute, Whois Footprinting, DNS information, Site on same server, Nmap port scanner, Reverse Target and hyperlinks on a webpage. The tool, after being provided with necessary inputs generates an output in HTML format.

Installation

r3con1z3r supports Python 2 and Python 3.

# install from pypi   
pip install r3con1z3r

Modules

r3con1z3r depends only on the sys and the requests python modules. For the extra coloring to work on windows, win_unicode_console and colorama have to be installed

For Coloring on Windows: pip install win_unicode_console colorama

Usage

r3con1z3r installs a command line tool on system path that can be interacted with by using

# `domain.com` is the website to perform footprinting on    
r3con1z3r -d domain.com

Using this tool generates a html named as domain.com-r3con1z3r.html which can be opened on a browser to view the footprinting results

Demo

Simple usage of r3con1z3r CLI to perform OSINT footprinting on google.com

r3con1z3r Demo
r3con1z3r-Demo

Examples

  • To install on all Operating Systems (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, Android e.t.c) i.e Python 2 environment from within the cloned repo:
pip install r3con1z3r
python3 environment:
pip3 install r3con1z3r

ToDo

  • Include travis setup for automatic testing
  • Include automatic deployment of incremented versions to pypi so that pip install r3con1z3r can work

License

r3con1z3r is licensed under the GNU GPL license. take a look at the LICENSE for more information.

Contribution

This project is open to contributions, Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/abdulgaphy/r3con1z3r. Current contributors can be viewed by running r3con1z3r -a

Changelog

1.0 – Release

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