The first step of penetration is Information gathering. Exiftool is a useful tool for gathering information.ExifTool is a free and open-source software program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, and video metadata. It is platform independent, available as both a Perl library (Image::ExifTool) and command-line application. ExifTool is commonly incorporated into different types of digital workflows and supports many types of metadata including Exif, IPTC, XMP, JFIF, GeoTIFF, ICC Profile, Photoshop IRB, FlashPix, AFCP and ID3, as well as the manufacturer-specific metadata formats of many digital cameras.
For e.g if you want to gather information about your file, you will start the terminal ,choose the directory in which the file is using "cd" command and the we will write "exiftool name_of_the_file".
1.Here we have a pdf file namely teachyourselfcplusplusin21days at the desktop of our Linux
2. Then we will change the Directory to desktop using command "cd Desktop".
So, this is how to use the Exiftool in the kali linux.
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For e.g if you want to gather information about your file, you will start the terminal ,choose the directory in which the file is using "cd" command and the we will write "exiftool name_of_the_file".
1.Here we have a pdf file namely teachyourselfcplusplusin21days at the desktop of our Linux
2. Then we will change the Directory to desktop using command "cd Desktop".
3. Then we will write Exiftool teachyourselfcplusplusin21days.pdf
4.After pressing ENTER we will get all the details related to the given file .
For more tools stay tuned to kalicheat.blogspot.in
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