(Jan 31, 2025 07:12 AM)laslaslaslas Wrote:  Hey,
Thanks for reading my thread.

I have a question regarding IP recon, on which i have been trying to get an answer for a while.
Let say i have a target from which i need to know what ip adress they use.

I know i can get it by either implementing a mal link, like grabify or BeEF,
However i would like to do this without any interaction needed from the target.

What would you recommend?

Thank you for taking time to respond!
Have a nice day.

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P.s I think this would be the appropriate section to post this. please advice me if this is not correct.

(Jan 31, 2025 07:19 AM)DramaKing Wrote:  Have you considered telepathy? It's a stupid answer but in response to a stupid question. You need to have some interaction with the target.

Besides, unless you're going to make a police report or find out if someone is in a certain country, what good will knowing an IP address do?

(Jan 31, 2025 07:23 AM)laslaslaslas Wrote:  No not yet, i might aquire a ouija board to contact a dead relative that might have acces to the computer.

Knowing the IP address would give input for scanning it for open ports.

(Jan 31, 2025 07:37 AM)DramaKing Wrote:  Okay, you seem new to hacking and computer networks in general, so let me explain what a waste of time that is. Router firewalls have a default deny rule that blocks all incoming packets from WAN not dst-natted. Even if there was an open port, you'd need an unpatched exploit for the specific router model that would give you some kind of admin access or RCE. Even so, all you could do is mess with the Internet connection.

I once enabled remote administration on a router without changing the default password and relied on security through obscurity like an idiot. All that happened is the language setting got changed to Russian (or Ukrainian if that was an option) because of NAT/PAT.

(Jan 31, 2025 07:48 AM)laslaslaslas Wrote:  Well the idea behind this question and getting the ip address would be to further elaborate on the open ports and see if there are any vulnerabilities that could be exploited for any Initial acces.

By your reasoning saying that it is a waste of time, what would be a different way of approaching you would do to gain initial acces, beside using acces brokers.

thanks

(Jan 31, 2025 08:09 AM)laslaslaslas Wrote:  would that not have more direction to social engineering rather then hacking ?
Since the goal would be to undermine a person onto clicking a link or file

(Feb 1, 2025 08:02 PM)DramaKing Wrote:  Social engineering is hacking, just not the technical side. And some will say that all hacks require some social engineering.

So yes, social engineering is going to have a much higher chance of success than attacking a router with no open ports or remote access by default?

Have you tried scanning your own router by chance?

(Feb 6, 2025 02:02 PM)Yologamer006 Wrote:  i have an ip adress from my friend how can i see his position ?

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and can i get other informations about the ip