Owl-Eye – Tool For Information Gathering For Domain Name or IP Address

Owl-Eye is a free and open-source tool available on GitHub. Owl-Eye is used to find the information’s about the IP address of the domain or the website. Owl-Eye is used by security researchers in the early phases of reconnaissance and penetration testing of networks. Owl-Eye is written in Python language. You must have python installed in your kali Linux operating system in order to use this tool. Owl-Eye is a famous tool that is used by hackers for exploitation in networks by gaining the following –

• Name
• Whois Server
• Referral URL
• Status
• Expires On
• Registered On
• Updated On

Installation

Step 1: Use the following command to install the tool from GitHub. Use the second command to move into the directory of the tool.

git clone https://github.com/Laviru-Dilshan/Owl-Eye.git

cd Owl-Eye

Step 2: Now use the following command to run the tool. 

python3 Owl_Eye.py

The tool is running successfully. Now we will see examples to use the tool.

Usage

Example 1: Use the Owl-Eye tool to find out information about an IP address.

Type the target IP address in the tool.

Example 2: Use the Owl-Eye tool to find out information about a domain.

Type the target domain in the tool.