theHarvester/README.md

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theHarvester

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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

  • Netlas: A Shodan or Censys competitor - https://app.netlas.io

  • Onyphe: Cyber Defense Search Engine - https://www.onyphe.io/

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

  • Pentest-Tools.com: 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. - 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

  • sitedossier: Find available information on a site

  • 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/

  • 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 keys:

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
  • netlas - $
  • pentesttools - $
  • projecdiscovery - invite only for now
  • rocketreach - $
  • securityTrails
  • shodan - $
  • zoomeye

Install and dependencies:

Comments, bugs, and requests:

Main contributors:

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

Thanks:

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