What is Datasploit?
Datasploit is an open source data mining and reconnaissance automation tool used by security researchers and penetration testers. It collects information from various public data sources like WHOIS, DNS records, social media, search engines, etc. and aggregates the data to give insights about a target domain, IP address or organization.
Some key features of Datasploit are:
- Footprinting and reconnaissance automation
- Gather information from WHOIS, DNS, social media and other public data sources
- Create relationship maps to identify connections between people, domains, emails, etc.
- Perform subdomain enumeration and find associated domains/IPs
- GeoIP mapping to locate hosts and users
- Data visualization for attack surface analysis
- Integrations with Shodan, Censys and other services
- Organize, analyze and export the gathered intelligence
Overall, Datasploit aims to automate the first phase of penetration testing i.e. open source intelligence gathering and help security testers accelerate their target analysis and scoping. The organized data gives insights for planning further manual testing or social engineering attacks.