A penetration tester is performing the footprinting process and is reviewing publicly available information about an organization by using the Google search engine. Which of the following advanced operators would allow the pen tester to restrict the search to the organization's web domain?

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C. [site:] The 'site:' operator in Google search limits results exclusively to pages indexed under a specified domain or subdomain (e.g., site:example.com). Penetration testers use this during footprinting to enumerate publicly accessible pages, subdomains, and exposed resources belonging to the target organization without directly interacting with its infrastructure.

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A. [allinurl:] The 'allinurl:' operator searches for pages where all specified keywords appear in the URL, but it does not restrict results to a particular domain.

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B. [location:] 'location:' is not a standard Google advanced search operator and has no defined effect in Google Search.

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D. [link:] The 'link:' operator was historically used to find pages linking to a URL, but it does not restrict results to a specific domain and has been deprecated by Google.

A penetration tester is performing the footprinting process and is reviewing publicly available information about an organization by using the Google search engine. Which of the following advanced ope

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