SANS ISC: ISC Feature of the Week: Tools->Information Gathering

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Overview

One of the sections on the ISC Tools page is Information Gathering at https://isc.sans.edu/tools/#info-gathering. This collection will help you easily find out how your browser and plugins look to the outside and lists some other information lookup tools.

Features

Browser Headers - https://isc.sans.edu/tools/browserinfo.html
How a server sees your browser.

• https://isc.sans.edu/tools/browserinfo.html#your-info - You public IP and various pieces of Header iformation
• https://isc.sans.edu/tools/browserinfo.html#additional - Additional lookups that require javascript be enabled
• https://isc.sans.edu/tools/browserinfo.html#plain-text - Plain text information summary you can copy/paste for analysis

Browser Plugin Detector - https://isc.sans.edu/tools/adobinator.html
This page attempts to detect various browser plugins. The detection code used was created using PluginDetect.

• Lists plugins detected and various version information for each.

Site Availability Check - https://isc.sans.edu/tools/sitecheck.html
Checks if hostname is reachable.

• Single input box.
• Displays failure if unreachable.
• If reachable, outputs:
  • Page load time
  • Page size in bytes
  • Return status code (ie. 200 success)
  • Final URL

Site DNS Check - https://isc.sans.edu/tools/dnscheck.html
Hostname to IP DNS resolver.

• Single input box.
• Output IP if system is able to resolve.

Whereis[IP] - https://isc.sans.edu/tools/whereis.html

• Multi-line input box. Enter one(1) IP per line.
• Output table contains:
  • IP ADDRESS queried
  • ASN of IP
  • NETWORK assignment
  • COUNTRY abbreviation
  • ISP name
  • RIR - Name of registry

Content Security Policy Test - https://isc.sans.edu/tools/csptest.html
Created for Firefox 4 but features may be found in other browsers.

• Lots of details and information on the test outlined and explained on the page

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Adam Swanger, Web Developer (GWEB, GWAPT)
Internet Storm Center https://isc.sans.edu