Hands-On Penetration Testing with Kali NetHunter

Using wget

You may find it useful to download a copy of a website for local examination and to use it to run other tests on. If this is something you wish to do, the easiest and simplest way is to use the wget command, which is a standard Linux tool used to retrieve information from websites. The wget utility is a non-interactive downloader.

It is important to note that this technique of using wget or a similar utility to download a website is not completely passive and is more semi-passive. While passive information-gathering avoids direct engagement with the target and thus makes the process anonymous and impossible to track, semi-passive leaves more behind. Semi-passive information-gathering engages the target much more directly and can ...