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 ...

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