Mastering Kali Linux for Advanced Penetration Testing - Third Edition
by Vijay Kumar Velu, Robert Beggs
The recon-ng framework
The recon-ng framework is an open source framework for conducting reconnaissance (passive and active). The framework is similar to Metasploit and Social Engineer Toolkit (SET); recon-ng uses a very modular framework. Each module is a customized command interpreter, preconfigured to perform a specific task.
The recon-ng framework and its modules are written in Python, allowing penetration testers to easily build or alter modules to facilitate testing.
The recon-ng tool also leverages third-party APIs to conduct some assessments; this additional flexibility means that some activities undertaken by recon-ng may be tracked by those parties. Users can specify a custom useragent string or proxy requests to minimize alerting ...
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