Disclaimer

This guide is solely for educational purposes only. Any acts of hacking taught here is for Ethical Hacking. Any hacking actions done without permission of owner is considered an illegal act by the law. Hence, do practice on your own network structure and your own devices.

Google Dork or Google Hacking is a hacker technique that uses Google Search and other Google applications to find security holes in the configuration and computer code that websites use.

There are several commonly used Google search operators:

• Intitle:

This will ask google to show pages that have the term in their HTML title.

• Inurl:

Searches for specified term in the URL. For example:inurl:register.php

• Filetype:

Searched for a certain file type. Example: filetype:pdfwill search for all the pdf files on the websites.

• Ext:

It works similar to filetype. Example: ext:pdf finds pdf extension files.

• Intext:

This will search the content of the page. This works somewhat like plain google search

• Site:

This limits the search to a specific site only. Example: site:abc@d.com will limit search to only abc@d.com.

• Cache:

This will show you cached version of any website. Example: cache: aa.com

• *

This works like a wildcard. Example: How to * sites, will show you all the results like “how to…” design/create/hack, etc… “sites”

Basic formula of Dork is:

“inurl:.”domain”/”dorks” “

Here,
“inurl” = input URL
“domain” = your desired domain ex. .gov
“dorks” = your dork of your choice