What is this?

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:

• anubis: Anubis-DB - https://github.com/jonluca/anubis

• bevigil: CloudSEK BeVigil scans mobile application for OSINT assets and makes them available through an API - https://bevigil.com/osint-api

• baidu: Baidu search engine - www.baidu.com

• binaryedge: List of known subdomains from www.binaryedge.io

• bing: Microsoft search engine - 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: https://tls.bufferover.run

• censys: Censys search engine, will use certificates searches to enumerate subdomains and gather emails (Requires an API key, see below.) - censys.io

• certspotter: Cert Spotter monitors Certificate Transparency logs - https://sslmate.com/certspotter/

• criminalip Specialized Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine - https://www.criminalip.io

• crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - https://crt.sh

• dnsdumpster: DNSdumpster search engine - https://dnsdumpster.com

• duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com

• fullhunt: The Next-Generation Attack Surface Security Platform - 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.) - www.hunter.io

• hunterhow: Internet Search Engines For Security Researchers - https://hunter.how

• intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io

• omnisint: Project Crobat, A Centralised Searchable Open Source Project Sonar DNS Database - https://github.com/Cgboal/SonarSearch

• otx: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - https://otx.alienvault.com

• pentesttools: Powerful Penetration Testing Tools, Easy to Use (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://pentest-tools.com/home

• 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. - https://rocketreach.co

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

• shodan: Shodan search engine, will search for ports and banners from discovered hosts (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://shodan.io

• 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/

• urlscan: A sandbox for the web that is a URL and website scanner - https://urlscan.io

• vhost: Bing virtual hosts search

• virustotal: virustotal.com domain search

• yahoo: Yahoo search engine

• zoomeye: China version of shodan - https://www.zoomeye.org

Active:

• DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration
• Screenshots: Take screenshots of subdomains that were found

Modules that require an API key:

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.
• criminalip
• fullhunt
• github
• hunter - limited to 10 on the free plan, so you will need to do -l 10 switch
• hunterhow
• intelx
• pentesttools - $
• projecdiscovery - invite only for now
• rocketreach - $
• securityTrails
• shodan - $
• zoomeye

Install and dependencies:

• Python 3.9+
• https://github.com/laramies/theHarvester/wiki/Installation

Comments, bugs, and requests:

• Christian Martorella @laramies cmartorella@edge-security.com
• Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
• Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1

Main contributors:

• Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
• Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
• Lee Baird @discoverscripts

Thanks:

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