R3con1z3r – Lightweight Information Gathering Tool in Kali Linux

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R3con1z3r is a free and open-source tool available on Github. R3con1z3 is one of the easiest and useful tools for performing reconnaissance on websites and web apps. The R3con1z3r tool is also available for Linux on Github. R3con1z3r is written in python language. You must have python language installed into your Kali Linux operating system. R3con1z3r provides a command-line interface that you can run on Kali Linux. This tool can be used to get information about our target(domain). We can target any domain using R3con1z3r. The interactive console of R3con1z3r provides a number of helpful features that are helpful for security researchers.

R3con1z3r is based on Open Source Intelligence (OSINT). R3con1z3r is also called a lightweight Web information-gathering tool. R3con1z3r is also used to find footprints of the target. In terms of security, footprints are called a collection of every possible information regarding the target. R3con1z3r has a number of unique features that make this tool a lightweight tool. R3con1z3r has built-in functionalities which include passive reconnaissance Whois Footprinting, DNS information, Nmap port scanner, HTTP header flag, Traceroute, Reverse Target and hyperlinks on a webpage. As this tool is a lightweight tool it generated output in HTML format after the input domain is given in the input field of the tool.