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* TheHarvester Ver. 3.0.6                                         *
* Coded by Christian Martorella                                   *
* Edge-Security Research                                          *
* cmartorella@edge-security.com                                   *
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What is this?

theHarvester is a tool used for gathering names, emails, subdomains, virtual hosts, open ports/banners, and employee names from different public sources (search engines, PGP key servers). A really simple, but very effective tool for the early stages of a penetration test or just to know the visibility of your company on the internet.

The data sources include:

Passive:

• baidu: Baidu search engine

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

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

• censys:

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

• cymon:

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

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

• googleCSE: Google custom search engine

• googleplus: Users that work in target company (Uses Google search.)

• 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:

• pgp: PGP key server - mit.edu

• 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

• 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:

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:

• googleCSE: add your API key and CSE ID to discovery/constants.py
• hunter: add your API key to discovery/constants.py
• securitytrails: add your API key to discovery/constants.py
• shodan: add your API key to discovery/constants.py

Dependencies:

• Requests library (http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/) pip install requests
• Beautiful Soup 4 (https://pypi.org/project/beautifulsoup4//) pip install beautifulsoup4

Changelog in 3.0.0:

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

Comments, bugs, or requests?

cmartorella@edge-security.com

Updates:

https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester

Thanks:

• Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel
• Janos Zold @Jzold
• John Matherly - Shodan project
• Lee Baird @discoverscripts - suggestions and bugs reporting
• Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)