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Favicon Hasher – An Osint Tool
- T3RMINATED 2y ago[dead]
- PranaFlux 2y agoThis free online tool helps you analyze website favicons and generate various hash formats used by popular search engines and security tools. Enter a domain or URL below to analyze its favicon. Seems nice. I've tried a couple examples and compared them to other websites like it, it works better. I don't have a Shodan account so I can't check it works well with it. What do you guys think?
- batch12 2y agoI used to use this method, among others, to fingerprint Tor nodes. I used murmurhash3 so it was compatible with shodan, too.
- throawayonthe 2y ago[dead]
- batch12 2y agoTo the comment - you're showing [dead] > i'm curious, fingerprint in what way/purpose? all the relays are publicly listed by the Tor Project, so i'm guessing you mean something other than "x computer is a tor node" I understand the confusion. I was typing fast. I meant Tor hidden services. I ran a service called torwhois that collected data and shared it.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoI thought Tor hidden services couldn't be enumerated?
- batch12 2y agoI was able to enumerate them in a few ways: Public repositories, DNS leaks, and people searching the service for onions.
- donatj 2y agoI wish it didn't select the Apple Touch Icon when there was also a favicon
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoWeird. It's exactly what it says, but I don't see how it's useful. I guess a lot of people reuse assets between sock puppet sites?
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- jamesmotherway 2y agoI've used favicons (along with analytics IDs) to identify related malicious sites. You can also apply this to detect brand abuse and phishing pages.
- shumakriss 2y agoAn older post on HN regarding favicon role in osint: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42774291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42774291 And the linked post on osintme.com: https://www.osintme.com/index.php/2025/01/20/the-importance-of-favicons-in-website-osint-research/ https://www.osintme.com/index.php/2025/01/20/the-importance-...