Metadata is data about data. When I talk about this, the first thing you might think of is MetaGooFil. It briefly touched on extraction of document revision history and other metadata. So, technically, tools like MetaGooFil & libextractor deal only with the extraction of metadata, and not recovery of lost data, or hidden information. There is another tool, called the oometaextractor which is in the Spanish dialect. We are talking about an awesome new tool called FOCA.
FOCA seems to support a range of formats and ways to allow you to read the metadata from multiple files! This also includes a feature to export the metadata from images stored inside a PowerPoint presentation, or other media. In addition to allowing us to read each documents metadata, FOCA pulls the relevant usernames, paths, software versions, printer details, and email addresses into easy to an easy to read location! You can use Windows Live or our friend Google to perform those searches. You can easily analyse sites for metadata without having to download the files separately.
You can use the FOCA tool to collect the files, gathering the information from ODF, MS Office, PDF/EPS/PS files, cross the information found with artificial intelligence rules and fingerprint big amount of info about the network structure, matching IP address with internal server names, printers, shared folders, ACL’s! If you are paranoid about downloading such a tool, you can try the online version of the tool located here!
Check out how the tool looks here:
Fingerprinting and Organisation with Collected Archives
Interested already? You can download FOCA here.
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