Secondary Categories: 02 - External Reconnaissance Links: Search Tag:📕
Google Dorks
Description:
The Google Hacking Database contains hundreds of examples, but I’ll cover some basic uses here.
site: Limit the search results to those from a specific website.
site:apple.com
Not so useful by itself but will return every page that Google has indexed for the apple.com domain.
intitle: Find pages with a certain word in the title.
intitle:apple
This will return every page that contains the word “apple” in the title.
inurl: Find pages with a certain word in the URL.
inurl:apple
This will return every page where “apple” appears in the URL.
intext: Find pages containing a certain word (or words) somewhere in the content.
intext:apple
This will return every page where “apple” appears in the body text.
filetype: Search for filetypes that Google understands.
site:apple.com filetype:pdf
This will return all PDFs on apple.com. Other filetypes such as docx, pptx and xlsx also work. This could be combined with intitle:report to find all PDFs that have “report” in the name. Google does not understand all filetypes, so inurl could be used instead.
#..#: Search for a range of numbers.
site:apple.com filetype:pdf 2020..2022
This will return all PDFs on apple.com which contain the numbers 2020, 2021 and 2022. Useful for finding information constrained to a given timeframe.
-: Exclude a phrase.
site:apple.com -www -support
This will return pages indexed on apple.com excluding the www and support domains. Useful for finding other subdomains.
These dorks can be used to find interesting files, web applications and information.
Resources:
| Title | URL |
|---|---|
| Google Dork Database | https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database |
Created Date: November 6th 2022 15:25
Last Modified Date: November 6th 2022 15:25