Introduction

In this chapter, you will learn the skills necessary to gather information about your target environment. We will spend time trying to identify as much information as possible. The more information we can gather will provide us with more potential vectors for possible penetration in the environment as well as make those penetration attempts more successful. We will gather domain names, IP subnets, hosts, routing information, as well as other useful information. You will also learn how to keep track of this data, so we can refer to it in the future as we progress through our penetration testing environment.