This is just one example why dorking is every effective. Also useful when hunting phishing campaigns , depends where and how you apply!
FOFA Dork
body="<!-- START of Symfony Web Debug Toolbar -->"🔍 Anti-Dorking & Anti-Fingerprinting techniques (prevention)
- Apply the same techniques used by malware developers, obfuscate everything , don't let others know what's inside it easily
- Slightly change values of everything.
- Confuse the tools that are rely on hardcoded strings/patterns.
- Example: for favicon, try changing transparency level slightly, now check if the favicon hash value got changed. By using this, you can prevent to some extent from hunters who tries to find Origin IP based on favicon although this is just one of the easy way. Then below recon technique won't work with a basic search
Understand Dork Hunters Mindset
- If it has a pattern/unique phrase/keyword, a custom dork can be made for it
- Thinking how it's useful? May be the researcher found just one IP/sub to be vulnerable to a particular attack vector, now instead of just reporting this and relaxing, now he will scale the attack vector meaning finding more vulnerable areas that might have relation to this/ look similar to this/same vulnerable insecure practices/same code copy pasted etc… and many scenarios depending on how those endpoints were created or may it's a thirdy party product and the company is using outdated or vulnerable components on multiple instances :)