Description: Metagoofil is an information gathering tool designed for extracting metadata of public documents (pdf,doc,xls,ppt,docx,pptx,xlsx) belonging to a target company.The tool will perform a search in Google to identify and download the documents to local disk and then will extract the metadata with different libraries like Hachoir, PdfMiner and others. With the results it will generate a report with usernames, software versions and servers or machine names that will help Penetration testers in the information gathering phase.
http://code.google.com/p/metagoofil/
This video is a simple demo of tool metagoofil and it also explain in detail how to gather information with this tool for penetration testing purpose. This tool is included in Backtrack. The directory path is "/pentest/enumeration/google/metagoofil" . Metagoofil is written in python. Syntax is following:
python ./metagoofil.py -d abc.com -l 100 -t pdf,doc -o results -f results.html
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This metagoofil tool is very powerful i like this tool. No more Google dork for finding mails or file, just use this tool and we will receive almost all the files what we want from the site :D nice development.
metadata is data about data. extracting metadata in various format is really a big advantage.