Information Gathering

Information gathering basically you gather any information from anywhere. Basically we gather any information that we want to search. For example, if you want to know about 9gag or someone for example, you can search it from google and it is the most basic thing to do. If you want to get more detail about it, you can search using who.is, pipl.com or alexa.com.

This is the display of pipl.com and usually pipl.com used for search any information about a person.

This is the display of alexa.com and it used for see any information from how popular the website until who visit the website.

This is the display of who.is and it usually for search any information like website info, history, DNS record and else.

If you want to get any information from any host, you can use some command in terminal and command prompt (i suggest to use terminal because terminal have more command than command prompt), which is nslookup, host, dig and dnsenum command. Those 3 basically used to get any information from the domain host that we enter.

host and nslookup command

dig command

dnsenum command

The difference between their 4 is:

nslookup : give your name server and address and target name server and address. It can translate a domain name into ip address and vice versa.

host : give you information like ip address IPv4 and IPv6 and mail server. It can translate a domain name into ip address and vice versa.

dig : give you information like ip address, name server, time and date, version number.
dnsenum : give you information like host address, name server, mail server, zone transfer

Related link:

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/unslooku.htm

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/host.htm

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/dig.htm

http://kalilinuxtutorials.com/dnsenum/

VMware Workstation

VMware Workstation is a software to run other OS in your computer or we can say it a virtual machine. VMware can run more than one OS at the same time and makes it practical to use. Also we can setting the machine, like add or decrease the ram, change the network adapter and else.

This is how VMware workstation looks like.  

This is the setting of my virtual machine. To access it, just click at edit virtual machine setting button below the power on this virtual machine button.

When i run my Kali Linux, this is what it looks like.

Also you can make it bigger (full screen).

The UI (User Interface) is different with windows and to remind you, all the application inside Kali Linux used for hacking. If you want to browse, use Iseweasel (red circle), located above terminal (blue circle).

This is all the information that i can give to you for now and maybe i will show some application inside Kali Linux later.

Link to access and download VMware Workstation:

https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation