Your goals during information gathering should be to gain accurate information about your targets without revealing your presence or your intentions, to learn how the organization operates, and to determine the best route. Metasploit is a best console for information gathering it is very comprehensive penetration testing tool. In this article, I am going to cover whole information gathering of a network using Metasploit.
Information gathering requires careful planning, research, and, most importantly, the ability to think like an attacker. At this step, you will attempt to collect as much information about the target environment as possible.
There are two types of information gathering passive and active.
