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You have been authorized to perform a penetration test against a website. You want to use Google dorks to footprint the site but only want results that show file extensions. What Google dork operator
The correct answer is A. filetype. The filetype: operator restricts Google search results to a specific file extension, making it the standard tool for discovering exposed files on a target site during reconnaissance.
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You have been authorized to perform a penetration test against a website. You want to use Google dorks to footprint the site but only want results that show file extensions. What Google dork operator would you use?
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- Afiletype
- Bext
- Cinurl
- Dsite
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Why each option
The filetype: operator restricts Google search results to a specific file extension, making it the standard tool for discovering exposed files on a target site during reconnaissance.
The filetype: operator (e.g., filetype:pdf or filetype:xls) instructs Google to return only results that are or link to files of a specified extension. This is the documented Google dork used in footprinting to surface sensitive documents, configuration files, or other exposed file types hosted on a target domain.
While ext: has historically been treated as a near-synonym in some Google behavior, filetype: is the recognized and documented primary operator for file extension filtering in security testing contexts.
inurl: restricts results to pages where the specified keyword appears in the URL path, not by file type or extension.
site: limits results to a specific domain or subdomain, useful for scoping a search but incapable of filtering results by file extension.
Concept tested: Google dorking filetype operator for file enumeration
Source: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433
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