Self-dox

Doxing is a technique of tracing someone or gathering information about an individual using sources on the internet. Its name is derived from “Documents” or “Docx”. Doxing method is based purely on the ability of the hacker to recognize valuable information about his target and use this information to his benefit. It is also based around the idea that, “The more you know about your target, the easier it will be to find his or her flaws” ~ Urban dictionary.

Such flaws can then be exploited. The exploitation wildly differs depending on the adversary. For example, profiling information can be used for encapsulation attempts by intelligence agencies. If those attempts are tried and fail and you are still enough of an annoyance to your government, expect aggressive demonisation by government paid trolls (and exceptionalism at its current flourishing best).

Doxing is also a part of reconnaissance where it is called 'human intelligence' or 'humint', and its focus is on its shadow side. The techniques can be simple or complex, and are useful for background checks (infiltrant agents will probably remain invisible with these techniques but littler petty tyrant may be detected) .

There are tools particularly created for d0xing. I use as little automated tools as possible. Not only because of the risk of poisoning, also because I prefer to pay more attention to little-easily-overlooked-details. The more you rely on auto-anything, the more you overlook. But if you want to use a tool and it is unknown to you, please do some research (possibly) follow the money, where the makers are located, for assessing likelihood of the code being poisoned.

This page collects doxxing resources and if you have one, please do add!

Doxed: how Sabu was outed by former Anons long before his arrest http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/03/doxed-how-sabu-was-outed-by-former-anons-long-before-his-arrest/

Storing information during research

Store gathered data on an encrypted external disk.

Basket (KDE)

http://basket.kde.org/

Dradis

Dradis is a self-contained web application that provides a centralised repository of information to keep track of what has been done so far, and what is still ahead. http://tools.kali.org/reporting-tools/dradis

Elicitation

That person you don't know and tries to develop a relationship with you on line? He or she can be genuine, can be an intelligence agent, can be a role player, ...

Elicitation means To call forth, draw out, or provoke (a response or reaction, for example): "Interrogators were reportedly frustrated by their inability to elicit useful information from him" and a much used tool in doxing and reconnaissance. Why jump through all kinds of technological hoops if we can just ask? It is low risk and hard to detect.

Elicitation seems to work well using these general human "vulnerability" key factors:

• Most people have the desire to be polite, especially to strangers.
• Professionals want to appear well informed and intelligent.
• People that are praised, will often talk more and divulge more.
• Most people would not lie for the sake of lying.
• Most people respond kindly to people who appear concerned about them.

Have a look at your profile to make an assessment of your vulnerabilities, and you can also do some roleplays with trusted others to see how vulnerable you are to elicitation and by whom. For some (more) examples that you haven't thought of yet, see The Real Hustle https://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealHustleA3M

Profiling and fingerprinting

IP lookup

When you have an IP address an IP lookup will provide details such as ISP name, country, state, city, longitude and latitude. Domain names can help us to find out important information such as address, email id and phone number.

Using whois from the command line you may or may not get useful results. It runs on port 43, and information returned is in plain ASCII format, but because whois servers all over the internet are managed by a wide variety of organisations, information returned may vary. And the different whois clients have different functionality too.

Whois proxies can be used between a client and a server. Those usually use the http or https protocol. If port 43 is blocked, that is not a problem when a client is using proxies through a browser. Also, likely a proxy will determine which server to contact for different lookups.

Almost all services prevent data mining for preventing data gathering for spamming, and that also limits the service for other purposes such as intelligence gathering. Recently, some ISP’s are discussing limiting their service even further.

RWhois (referral whois) is a directory services protocol which extends the whois protocol in a hierarchical and scalable way. It focuses on the distribution of “network objects” (domain names, IP addresses, email addresses) and uses the hierarchical nature of these network objects to more accurately discover the requested information. It is similar to DNS but apparently, still not in general use.

Resources

Spies online

You can use the same (or similar) spies online techniques to see yourself through the eyes of the adversaries that might d0x you. That information can then be used to protect yourself from your adversaries as best as you can. And when setting up other, anonymous or pseudonymous identities, these same resources can be used for test-driven-development of the identity.

Elicitation

• Social engineer: elicitation http://www.social-engineer.org/framework/influencing-others/elicitation/
• Information Elicitation via Social Engineering http://capec.mitre.org/data/definitions/410.html

Search engines

• Duck Duck Go https://duckduckgo.com/ (anonymous search)
• IxQuick https://ixquick.com/
• StartPage https://startpage.com/
• YaCy http://yacy.net/en/index.html (distributed search)

People

• Check Usernames http://checkusernames.com/
• Lullar http://com.lullar.com/
• Peek You http://www.peekyou.com/
• Pipl https://pipl.com/
• Recorded Future https://www.recordedfuture.com/
• Social Mention http://socialmention.com/
• WebMii http://webmii.com/
• Whos Talkin http://www.whostalkin.com/

Images

• TinEye https://tineye.com/

Posts and discussions

• Omgili http://omgili.com/

IP lookup

Technical information related to whois

• RFC 954 – NICNAME/WHOIS </nowiki>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc954.html
• RFC 1834 – Whois and Network Information Lookup Service, Whois++ </nowiki>http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1834.html

Whois clients

• Linux online manpage jwhois http://linux.die.net/man/1/whois
• Ripe whois client http://sourceforge.net/projects/whois/files/ (does not check for supported flags at the client side, except for -h (whois host) and -p (whois port))

Webbased whois lookups

• Geektools http://www.geektools.com/whois.php (also serves as proxy)
• Whois at the Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Domain_Names/Name_Search/ with (list of whois servers)

Useful whois servers

• InterNIC http://www.internic.net/whois.html (the main Internic whois)
• American Registry for Internet Numbers http://whois.arin.net/ (gives info on who owns a netblock)
• Advanced query RADb http://www.radb.net/query/?advanced_query=1 (for routing information from an IP address)
• Robtex http://www.robtex.com/ (goodies in a toolbar)

RWhois

• RWHOIS project on ARIN http://projects.arin.net/rwhois/
• RWhois Web Interface http://projects.arin.net/rwhois/prwhois.html (a sample rwhois web interface on ARIN using the Net::Rwhois perl5 client)

Other interesting lookups

• The New Ultimates, mostly US data http://www.newultimates.com/

D0xing tools

• Sleeping Time http://sleepingtime.org/
• Metagoofil http://www.edge-security.com/metagoofil.php
• theHarvester http://www.edge-security.com/theharvester.php

Reuseful archives

Such as wandering through archives, yellow pages, phone directories and other possibly useful information made publicly available.

Europe

• Archives portal europe http://www.archivesportaleurope.net/directory
• Archiwum Dokumentow Elektronicznych (POL) http://www.nac.gov.pl/
• Bundesarchiv, Federal Archives (GER) http://www.bundesarchiv.de/index.html.de
• Central State Electronic Archives of Ukraine http://tsdea.archives.gov.ua/
• The National Archives (UK) https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
• White and Yellow Pages Europe http://www.wayp.com/eng/europa3.shtml
• Офіційний веб-портал Державної архівної служби України http://www.archives.gov.ua/

Africa

• National Archives of South Africa (NASA) http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl
• White and Yellow Pages Africa http://www.wayp.com/eng/afrika3.shtml
• White Pages (ZA) http://www.whitepages.co.za/

Asia

• White and Yellow Pages Asia http://www.wayp.com/eng/asia3.shtml

Oceania

• New Zealand Web Archive http://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-z/new-zealand-web-archive
• PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive http://pandora.nla.gov.au/
• White and Yellow Pages South Pacific http://www.wayp.com/eng/southpas3.shtml

South America

• White and Yellow Pages America http://www.wayp.com/eng/amerika3.shtml

North America

• National Archives (US) http://www.archives.gov/
• WayBackMachine https://archive.org/web/
• White and Yellow Pages America http://www.wayp.com/eng/amerika3.shtml
• White Pages (US) http://www.whitepages.com/

Related

• Psychological warfare
• Understanding and minimising our digital shadows
• Trolling
• Roleplay