Quickly Investigating Websites with Lookyloo, (Sat, Nov 17th)

While we are enjoying our weekend, it’s always a good time to learn about new pieces of software that could be added to your toolbox. Security analysts have often to quickly investigate a website for malicious content and it’s not always easy to keep a good balance between online or local services. When you submit information to a free online service, they’re good chances that data you submitted are logged and probably analysed/re-used, remember nothing is “for free”. Lookiloo is a tool developed by CIRCL (the Luxembourg CERT) that helps to have a quick overview of a website by scraping it and displaying a tree of domains calling each other. The name “Lookyloo” comes from the Urban Dictionary[1] and means “People who just come to look”.  The tool provides a simple web interface to submit a new site to query or to review previous analysis:

Article Link: https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/24320