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What is this?
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theHarvester is a simple to use, yet powerful tool designed to be used during the reconnaissance stage of a red
team assessment or penetration test. It performs open source intelligence (OSINT) gathering to help determine
a domain's external threat landscape. The tool gathers names, emails, IPs, subdomains, and URLs by using
multiple public resources that include:
Passive modules:
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* anubis: Anubis-DB - https://github.com/jonluca/anubis
* bevigil: CloudSEK BeVigil scans mobile application for OSINT assets (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://bevigil.com/osint-api
* baidu: Baidu search engine - www.baidu.com
* binaryedge: List of known subdomains (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://www.binaryedge.io
* bing: Microsoft search engine - https://www.bing.com
* bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires an API key, see below.)
* brave: Brave search engine - https://search.brave.com/
* bufferoverun: (Requires an API key, see below.) https://tls.bufferover.run
* censys: [Censys search engine](https://search.censys.io/) will use certificates searches to enumerate subdomains and gather emails
(Requires an API key, see below.) https://censys.io
* certspotter: Cert Spotter monitors Certificate Transparency logs - https://sslmate.com/certspotter/
* criminalip: Specialized Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://www.criminalip.io
* crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - https://crt.sh
* dnsdumpster: DNSdumpster search engine - https://dnsdumpster.com
* duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - https://duckduckgo.com
* fullhunt: Next-generation attack surface security platform (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://fullhunt.io
* github-code: GitHub code search engine (Requires a GitHub Personal Access Token, see below.) - www.github.com
* hackertarget: Online vulnerability scanners and network intelligence to help organizations - https://hackertarget.com
* hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://hunter.io
* hunterhow: Internet search engines for security researchers (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://hunter.how
* intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - http://intelx.io
* netlas: A Shodan or Censys competitor (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://app.netlas.io
* onyphe: Cyber defense search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://www.onyphe.io/
* otx: AlienVault open threat exchange - https://otx.alienvault.com
* pentestTools: Cloud-based toolkit for offensive security testing, focused on web applications and network penetration
testing (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://pentest-tools.com/
* projecDiscovery: We actively collect and maintain internet-wide assets data, to enhance research and analyse changes around
DNS for better insights (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://chaos.projectdiscovery.io
* rapiddns: DNS query tool which make querying subdomains or sites of a same IP easy! https://rapiddns.io
* rocketreach: Access real-time verified personal/professional emails, phone numbers, and social media links (Requires an API key,
see below.) - https://rocketreach.co
* securityTrails: Security Trails search engine, the world's largest repository of historical DNS data (Requires an API key, see
below.) - https://securitytrails.com
* -s, --shodan: Shodan search engine will search for ports and banners from discovered hosts (Requires an API key, see below.)
https://shodan.io
* sitedossier: Find available information on a site - http://www.sitedossier.com
* subdomaincenter: A subdomain finder tool used to find subdomains of a given domain - https://www.subdomain.center/
* subdomainfinderc99: A subdomain finder is a tool used to find the subdomains of a given domain - https://subdomainfinder.c99.nl
* threatminer: Data mining for threat intelligence - https://www.threatminer.org/
* tomba: Tomba search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://tomba.io
* urlscan: A sandbox for the web that is a URL and website scanner - https://urlscan.io
* vhost: Bing virtual hosts search
* virustotal: Domain search (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://www.virustotal.com
* yahoo: Yahoo search engine
* zoomeye: China's version of Shodan (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://www.zoomeye.org
Active modules:
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* DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration
* Screenshots: Take screenshots of subdomains that were found
Modules that require an API key:
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Documentation to setup API keys can be found at - https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation#api-keys
* bevigil - Free upto 50 queries. Pricing can be found here: https://bevigil.com/pricing/osint
* binaryedge - $10/month
* bing
* bufferoverun - uses the free API
* censys - API keys are required and can be retrieved from your [Censys account](https://search.censys.io/account/api).
* criminalip
* fullhunt
* github
* hunter - limited to 10 on the free plan, so you will need to do -l 10 switch
* hunterhow
* intelx
* netlas - $
* onyphe -$
* pentestTools - $
* projecDiscovery - invite only for now
* rocketreach - $
* securityTrails
* shodan - $
* tomba - Free up to 50 search.
* zoomeye
Install and dependencies:
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* Python 3.10+
* https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation
Comments, bugs, and requests:
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* [](https://twitter.com/laramies) Christian Martorella @laramies
cmartorella@edge-security.com
* [](https://twitter.com/NotoriousRebel1) Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
* [](https://twitter.com/jay_townsend1) Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
Main contributors:
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* [](https://twitter.com/NotoriousRebel1) Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
* [](https://twitter.com/jay_townsend1) Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
* [](https://twitter.com/discoverscripts) Lee Baird @discoverscripts
Thanks:
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* John Matherly - Shodan project
* Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)