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* theHarvester 3.0.6 v260 *
* Coded by Christian Martorella *
* Edge-Security Research *
* cmartorella@edge-security.com *
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What is this?
theHarvester is a very simple, yet effective tool designed to be used in the early
stages of a penetration test. Use it for open source intelligence gathering and helping
to determine a company's external threat landscape on the internet. The tool gathers
emails, names, subdomains, IPs, and URLs using multiple public data sources that include:
Passive:
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baidu: Baidu search engine
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bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com
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bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires API key, see below.)
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censys: Censys.io search engine
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crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - www.crt.sh
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cymon: Cymon.io search engine
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dogpile: Dogpile search engine - www.dogpile.com
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duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com
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google: Google search engine (Optional Google dorking.) - www.google.com
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googleCSE: Google custom search engine
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google-certificates: Google Certificate Transparency report
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hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io
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intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io
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linkedin: Google search engine, specific search for Linkedin users
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netcraft: Netcraft Data Mining
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pgp: PGP key server - mit.edu
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securityTrails: Security Trails search engine, the world's largest repository
of historical DNS data (Requires API key, see below.) - www.securitytrails.com -
shodan: Shodan search engine, will search for ports and banners from discovered
hosts - www.shodanhq.com -
threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - www.threatcrowd.org
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trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)
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twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)
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vhost: Bing virtual hosts search
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virustotal: Virustotal.com domain search
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yahoo: Yahoo search engine
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all: currently a subset of all the most effective plugins
Active:
- DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration
- DNS reverse lookup: reverse lookup of IP´s discovered in order to find hostnames
- DNS TDL expansion: TLD dictionary brute force enumeration
Modules that require an API key:
Add your keys to api-keys.yaml
- googleCSE: API key and CSE ID
- hunter: API key
- intelx: API key
- securityTrails: API key
- shodan: API key
Dependencies:
- Python 3.6
- python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
Changelog in 3.0:
- Subdomain takeover checks.
- Port scanning (basic).
- Improved DNS dictionary.
- Shodan DB search fixed.
- Result storage in Sqlite.
Comments, bugs, or requests?
Main contributors:
Thanks:
- John Matherly - Shodan project
- Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)
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