theHarvester/README.md

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* TheHarvester Ver. 3.0.0                                         *
* Coded by Christian Martorella                                   *
* Edge-Security Research                                          *
* cmartorella@edge-security.com                                   *
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What is this?

theHarvester is a tool for gathering subdomain names, e-mail addresses, virtual hosts, open ports/ banners, and employee names from different public sources (search engines, pgp key servers).

Is a really simple tool, but very effective for the early stages of a penetration test or just to know the visibility of your company in the Internet.

The sources are:

Passive:

• threatcrowd: Open source threat intelligence - https://www.threatcrowd.org/

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

• google: google search engine - www.google.com (With optional google dorking)

• googleCSE: google custom search engine

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

• bing: microsoft search engine - www.bing.com

• bingapi: microsoft search engine, through the API (you need to add your Key in the discovery/bingsearch.py file)

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

• pgp: pgp key server - mit.edu

• linkedin: google search engine, specific search for Linkedin users

• vhost: Bing virtual hosts search

• twitter: twitter accounts related to an specific domain (uses google search)

• googleplus: users that works in target company (uses google search)

• yahoo: Yahoo search engine

• baidu: Baidu search engine

• shodan: Shodan Computer search engine, will search for ports and banner of the discovered hosts (http://www.shodanhq.com/)

Active:

• DNS brute force: this plugin will run a 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 need API keys to work:

• googleCSE: You need to create a Google Custom Search engine(CSE), and add your Google API key and CSE ID in the plugin (discovery/googleCSE.py)
• shodan: You need to provide your API key in discovery/shodansearch.py (one provided at the moment)

Dependencies:

• Requests library (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/) pip install requests

Changelog in 3.0.0:

• Subdomain takeover checks
• Port scanning (basic)
• Improved DNS dictionary
• Shodan DB search fixed
• Result storage in Sqlite

Comments? Bugs? Requests?

cmartorella@edge-security.com

Updates:

https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester

Thanks:

• John Matherly - SHODAN project
• Lee Baird for suggestions and bugs reporting
• Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionary (big and small)