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* theHarvester 3.0.6 v193                                         *
* Coded by Christian Martorella                                   *
* Edge-Security Research                                          *
* cmartorella@edge-security.com                                   *
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What is this?
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theHarvester is a very simple, yet effective tool designed to be used in the early<br>
stages of a penetration test. Use it for open source intelligence gathering and helping<br>
to determine a company's external threat landscape on the internet. The tool gathers<br>
emails, names, subdomains, IPs, and URLs using multiple public data sources that include:

Passive:
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* baidu: Baidu search engine

* bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com

* bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires API key, see below.)

* censys: Censys.io search engine

* crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - www.crt.sh

* cymon: Cymon.io search engine

* dogpile: Dogpile search engine - www.dogpile.com

* duckduckgo:

* google: Google search engine (Optional Google dorking.) - www.google.com

* googleCSE: Google custom search engine

* google-certificates: Google Certificate Transparency report

* google-profiles: Google search engine, specific search for Google profiles

* hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io

* linkedin: Google search engine, specific search for Linkedin users

* netcraft: Netcraft Data Mining

* pgp: PGP key server - mit.edu

* securitytrails: Security Trails search engine, the world's largest repository<br>
  of historical DNS data (Requires API key, see below.) - www.securitytrails.com

* shodan: Shodan search engine, will search for ports and banners from discovered<br>
  hosts - www.shodanhq.com

* threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - www.threatcrowd.org

* trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)

* twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)

* vhost: Bing virtual hosts search

* virustotal:

* yahoo: Yahoo search engine

* all: currently a subset of all the most effective plugins

Active:
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* 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:
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Add your keys to discovery/constants.py

* googleCSE: API key and CSE ID
* hunter: API key
* securitytrails: API key
* shodan: API key

Dependencies:
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* Python 3.6
* pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Changelog in 3.0:
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* Subdomain takeover checks.
* Port scanning (basic).
* Improved DNS dictionary.
* Shodan DB search fixed.
* Result storage in Sqlite.

Comments, bugs, or requests?
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cmartorella@edge-security.com

Main contributors:
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* Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel
* Janos Zold @Jzold
* Lee Baird @discoverscripts
* Jay Townsend @L1ghtn1ng

Thanks:
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* John Matherly - Shodan project
* Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)