DANGEROUS GOOGLE HACKING DATABASE AND ATTACKS

Google serves some 80 percent of all search queries on the Internet, making it by far the most popular search

engine. Its popularity is due not only to excellent search effectiveness, but also extensive querying capabilities. However, we should also remember that the Internet is a highly dynamic medium, so the results presented by Google are not always up-to-date – some search results might be stale, while other relevant resources might not yet have been visited by Googlebot (the automatic script that browses and indexes Web resources for Google).

Hunting for Prey

Google makes it possible to reach not just publicly available Internet resources, but also some that should never have been revealed.

Information which should be protected is very often publicly available, revealed by careless or ignorant users. The result is that lots of confidential data is freely available on the Internet – just Google for it.

Operator	Description	Sample query
site	restricts results to sites within the specified domain	site:google.com fox will find all sites containing the word fox, located within the *.google.com domain
intitle	restricts results to documents whose title contains the specified phrase	intitle:fox fire will find all sites with the word fox in the title and fire in the text
allintitle	restricts results to documents whose title contains all the specified phrases	allintitle:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the title, so it's equivalent to intitle:fox intitle:fire
inurl	restricts results to sites whose URL contains the specified phrase	inurl:fox fire will find all sites containing the word fire in the text and fox in the URL
allinurl	restricts results to sites whose URL contains all the specified phrases	allinurl:fox fire will find all sites with the words fox and fire in the URL, so it's equivalent to inurl:fox inurl:fire
filetype, ext	restricts results to documents of the specified type	filetype:pdf fire will return PDFs containing the word fire, while filetype:xls fox will return Excel spreadsheets with the word fox
numrange	restricts results to documents containing a number from the specified range	numrange:1-100 fire will return sites containing a number from 1 to 100 and the word fire. The same result can be achieved with 1..100 fire
link	restricts results to sites containing links to the specified location	link:www.google.com will return documents containing one or more links to www.google.com
inanchor	restricts results to sites containing links with the specified phrase in their descriptions	inanchor:fire will return documents with links whose description contains the word fire (that's the actual link text, not the URL indicated by the link)
allintext	restricts results to documents containing the specified phrase in the text, but not in the title, link descriptions or URLs	allintext:"fire fox" will return documents which contain the phrase fire fox in their text only
+	specifies that a phrase should occur frequently in results	+fire will order results by the number of occurrences of the word fire
-	specifies that a phrase must not occur in results	-fire will return documents that don't contain the word fire
""	delimiters for entire search phrases (not single words)	"fire fox" will return documents containing the phrase fire fox
.	wildcard for a single character	fire.fox will return documents containing the phrases fire fox, fireAfox, fire1fox, fire-fox etc.
*	wildcard for a single word	fire * fox will return documents containing the phrases fire the fox, fire in fox, fire or fox etc.
|	logical OR	"fire fox" | firefox will return documents containing the phrase fire fox or the word firefox

Table:Google Query Operator.

Query	Server
"Apache/1.3.28 Server at" intitle:index.of	Apache 1.3.28
"Apache/2.0 Server at" intitle:index.of	Apache 2.0
"Apache/* Server at" intitle:index.of	any version of Apache
"Microsoft-IIS/4.0 Server at" intitle:index.of	Microsoft Internet Information Services 4.0
"Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Server at" intitle:index.of	Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
"Microsoft-IIS/6.0 Server at" intitle:index.of	Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
"Microsoft-IIS/* Server at" intitle:index.of	any version of Microsoft Internet Information Services
"Oracle HTTP Server/* Server at" intitle:index.of	any version of Oracle HTTP Server
"IBM_HTTP_Server/* * Server at" intitle:index.of	any version of IBM HTTP Server
"Netscape/* Server at" intitle:index.of	any version of Netscape Server
"Red Hat Secure/*" intitle:index.of	any version of the Red Hat Secure server
"HP Apache-based Web Server/*" intitle:index.of	any version of the HP server

Query	Server
intitle:"Test Page for Apache Installation" "You are free"	Apache 1.2.6
intitle:"Test Page for Apache Installation" "It worked!" "this Web site!"	Apache 1.3.0 – 1.3.9
intitle:"Test Page for Apache Installation" "Seeing this instead"	Apache 1.3.11 – 1.3.33, 2.0
intitle:"Test Page for the SSL/TLS-aware Apache Installation" "Hey, it worked!"	Apache SSL/TLS
intitle:"Test Page for the Apache Web Server on Red Hat Linux"	Apache on Red Hat
intitle:"Test Page for the Apache Http Server on Fedora Core"	Apache on Fedora
intitle:"Welcome to Your New Home Page!" Debian	Apache on Debian
intitle:"Welcome to IIS 4.0!"	IIS 4.0
intitle:"Welcome to Windows 2000 Internet Services"	IIS 5.0
intitle:"Welcome to Windows XP Server Internet Services"	IIS 6.0

Table:Queries for discovering standard post-installation Web server pages.

Query	Type of information
"Generated by phpSystem"	operating system type and version, hardware configuration, logged users, open connections, free memory and disk space, mount points
"This summary was generated by wwwstat"	web server statistics, system file structure
"These statistics were produced by getstats"	web server statistics, system file structure
"This report was generated by WebLog"	web server statistics, system file structure
intext:"Tobias Oetiker" "traffic analysis"	system performance statistics as MRTG charts, network configuration
intitle:"Apache::Status" (inurl:server-status | inurl: status.html | inurl:apache.html)	server version, operating system type, child process list, current connections
intitle:"ASP Stats Generator *.*" "ASP Stats Generator" "2003-2004 weppos"	web server activity, lots of visitor information
intitle:"Multimon UPS status page"	UPS device performance statistics
intitle:"statistics of" "advanced web statistics"	web server statistics, visitor information
intitle:"System Statistics" +"System and Network Information Center"	system performance statistics as MRTG charts, hardware configuration, running services
intitle:"Usage Statistics for" "Generated by Webalizer"	web server statistics, visitor information, system file structure
intitle:"Web Server Statistics for ****"	web server statistics, visitor information
inurl:"/axs/ax-admin.pl" -script	web server statistics, visitor information
inurl:"/cricket/grapher.cgi"	MRTG charts of network interface performance
inurl:server-info "Apache Server Information"	web server version and configuration, operating system type, system file structure
"Output produced by SysWatch *"	operating system type and version, logged users, free memory and disk space, mount points, running processes, system logs

Table: Querying for application-generated system reports.

Query	Result
"A syntax error has occurred" filetype:ihtml	Informix database errors, potentially containing function names, filenames, file structure information, pieces of SQL code and passwords
"Access denied for user" "Using password"	authorisation errors, potentially containing user names, function names, file structure information and pieces of SQL code
"The script whose uid is " "is not allowed to access"	access-related PHP errors, potentially containing filenames, function names and file structure information
"ORA-00921: unexpected end of SQL command"	Oracle database errors, potentially containing filenames, function names and file structure information
"error found handling the request" cocoon filetype:xml	Cocoon errors, potentially containing Cocoon version information, filenames, function names and file structure information
"Invision Power Board Database Error"	Invision Power Board bulletin board errors, potentially containing function names, filenames, file structure information and piece of SQL code
"Warning: mysql_query()" "invalid query"	MySQL database errors, potentially containing user names, function names, filenames and file structure information
"Error Message : Error loading required libraries."	CGI script errors, potentially containing information about operating system and program versions, user names, filenames and file structure information
"#mysql dump" filetype:sql	MySQL database errors, potentially containing information about database structure and contents

Table: Error message queries.

Query	Result
"http://*:*@www" site	passwords for site, stored as the string "http://username: password@www..."
filetype:bak inurl:"htaccess|passwd|shadow|ht users"	file backups, potentially containing user names and passwords
filetype:mdb inurl:"account|users|admin|admin istrators|passwd|password"	mdb files, potentially containing password information
intitle:"Index of" pwd.db	pwd.db files, potentially containing user names and encrypted passwords
inurl:admin inurl:backup intitle:index.of	directories whose names contain the words admin and backup
"Index of/" "Parent Directory" "WS_FTP.ini" filetype:ini WS_FTP PWD	WS_FTP configuration files, potentially containing FTP server access passwords
ext:pwd inurl:(service|authors|administrators |users) "# -FrontPage-"	files containing Microsoft FrontPage passwords
filetype:sql ("passwd values ****" | "password values ****" | "pass values ****" )	files containing SQL code and passwords inserted into a database
intitle:index.of trillian.ini	configuration files for the Trillian IM
eggdrop filetype:user user	configuration files for the Eggdrop ircbot
filetype:conf slapd.conf	configuration files for OpenLDAP
inurl:"wvdial.conf" intext:"password"	configuration files for WV Dial
ext:ini eudora.ini	configuration files for the Eudora mail client
filetype:mdb inurl:users.mdb	Microsoft Access files, potentially containing user account information
intext:"powered by Web Wiz Journal"	websites using Web Wiz Journal, which in its standard configuration allows access to the passwords file – just enter http: //<host>/journal/journal.mdb instead of the default http://<host>/ journal/
"Powered by DUclassified" -site:duware.com "Powered by DUcalendar" -site:duware.com "Powered by DUdirectory" -site:duware.com "Powered by DUclassmate" -site:duware.com "Powered by DUdownload" -site:duware.com "Powered by DUpaypal" -site:duware.com "Powered by DUforum" -site:duware.com intitle:dupics inurl:(add.asp | default.asp | view.asp | voting.asp) -site:duware.com	websites using the DUclassified, DUcalendar, DUdirectory, DUclassmate, DUdownload, DUpaypal, DUforum or DUpics applications, which by default make it possible to obtain the passwords file – for DUclassified, just enter http://<host>/duClassified/_ private/duclassified.mdb instead of http://<host>/duClassified/
intext:"BiTBOARD v2.0" "BiTSHiFTERS Bulletin Board"	websites using the Bitboard2 bulletin board application, which on default settings allows the passwords file to be obtained – enter http://<host>/forum/admin/data_passwd.dat instead of the default http://<host>/forum/forum.php

Table: Google queries for locating passwords.

Query	Result
filetype:xls inurl:"email.xls"	email.xls files, potentially containing contact information
"phone * * *" "address *" "e-mail" intitle: "curriculum vitae"	CVs
"not for distribution" confidential	documents containing the confidential clause
buddylist.blt	AIM contacts list
intitle:index.of mystuff.xml	Trillian IM contacts list
filetype:ctt "msn"	MSN contacts list
filetype:QDF QDF	database files for the Quicken financial application
intitle:index.of finances.xls	finances.xls files, potentially containing information on bank accounts, financial summaries and credit card numbers
intitle:"Index Of" -inurl:maillog maillog size	maillog files, potentially containing e-mail
"Network Vulnerability Assessment Report" "Host Vulnerability Summary Report" filetype:pdf "Assessment Report" "This file was generated by Nessus"	reports for network security scans, penetration tests etc.
TTable: Searching for personal data and confidential documents.
Query		Device
"Copyright (c) Tektronix, Inc." "printer status"		PhaserLink printers
inurl:"printer/main.html" intext:"settings"		Brother HL printers
intitle:"Dell Laser Printer" ews		Dell printers with EWS technology
intext:centreware inurl:status		Xerox Phaser 4500/6250/8200/8400 printers
inurl:hp/device/this.LCDispatcher		HP printers
intitle:liveapplet inurl:LvAppl		Canon Webview webcams
intitle:"EvoCam" inurl:"webcam.html"		Evocam webcams
inurl:"ViewerFrame?Mode="		Panasonic Network Camera webcams
(intext:"MOBOTIX M1" | intext:"MOBOTIX M10") intext:"Open Menu" Shift-Reload		Mobotix webcams
inurl:indexFrame.shtml Axis		Axis webcams
SNC-RZ30 HOME		Sony SNC-RZ30 webcams
intitle:"my webcamXP server!" inurl:":8080"		webcams accessible via WebcamXP Server
allintitle:Brains, Corp. camera		webcams accessible via mmEye
intitle:"active webcam page"		USB webcams

Table: Queries for locating network devices.