Network Reconnaissance — 5 Technical Articles

Feb 25, 2026 · Information Security

100 Essential Commands for Internal Network Penetration Testing

This guide compiles 100 high‑frequency native commands for Windows and Linux that cover internal network reconnaissance, host discovery, lateral movement, privilege escalation, domain enumeration, file searching, log cleaning and persistence, providing a practical reference for security professionals conducting penetration tests.

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100 Essential Commands for Internal Network Penetration Testing

MaGe Linux Operations

Oct 12, 2023 · Information Security

How to Detect and Bypass CDN to Reveal a Website’s Real IP

This guide explains why CDNs hide a site's true IP, how to determine if a website uses a CDN, and outlines practical techniques—including DNS queries, online tools, sub‑domain analysis, email reverse lookup, and scanning scripts—to bypass the CDN and discover the real server address.

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How to Detect and Bypass CDN to Reveal a Website’s Real IP

Open Source Linux

Dec 28, 2022 · Information Security

Discover Real IPs with Fav‑up: A Shodan‑Powered Favicon Recon Tool

Fav‑up is a Python‑based reconnaissance utility that uses Shodan and website favicons to locate the true IP addresses of target services, offering command‑line options, module integration, and output formats for efficient network asset discovery.

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Discover Real IPs with Fav‑up: A Shodan‑Powered Favicon Recon Tool

Python Programming Learning Circle

Jun 18, 2021 · Information Security

Fav-up: A Python Tool for IP Discovery Using Shodan and Favicon

This article introduces Fav-up, a Python-based IP discovery tool that leverages Shodan and website favicons, explains how to install it, details its command‑line options and usage examples, and shows how to integrate it as a Python module for network reconnaissance.

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Fav-up: A Python Tool for IP Discovery Using Shodan and Favicon

Liangxu Linux

Oct 6, 2020 · Information Security

How I Uncovered a Phishing Mooncake Email Using Wireshark, Shodan, and OSINT

During the Mid‑Autumn Festival I received a seemingly harmless mooncake email, suspected it was a phishing test, and then used a virtual machine, network‑capture tools, Shodan, and open‑source intelligence to trace the malicious link back to its source and exposed the underlying infrastructure.

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How I Uncovered a Phishing Mooncake Email Using Wireshark, Shodan, and OSINT