3.9 KiB
What is this?
theHarvester is a very simple, yet effective tool designed to be used in the early
stages of a penetration test. Use it for open source intelligence gathering and
helping to determine a company's external threat landscape on the internet. The
tool gathers emails, names, subdomains, IPs, and URLs using multiple public data
sources that include:
Passive:
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baidu: Baidu search engine - www.baidu.com
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bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com
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bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires API key, see below.)
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censys: Censys.io search engine - www.censys.io
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crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - www.crt.sh
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dnsdumpster: DNSdumpster search engine - dnsdumpster.com
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dogpile: Dogpile search engine - www.dogpile.com
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duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com
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Exalead: a Meta search engine - https://www.exalead.com/search
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github-code: Github code search engine (Requires Github Personal Access Token, see below.) - www.github.com
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google: Google search engine (Optional Google dorking.) - www.google.com
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hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io
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intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io
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linkedin: Google search engine, specific search for Linkedin users - www.linkedin.com
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netcraft: Netcraft Data Mining - www.netcraft.com
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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
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trello: Search trello boards (Uses Google search.)
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twitter: Twitter accounts related to a specific domain (Uses Google search.)
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vhost: Bing virtual hosts search
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virustotal: virustotal.com domain search
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yahoo: Yahoo search engine
Active:
- DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration
Modules that require an API key:
Add your keys to api-keys.yaml
- bingapi
- github
- hunter
- intelx
- securityTrails
- shodan
Dependencies:
- Python 3.6+
- python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
- Recommend that you use a virtualenv when cloning from git
Comments, bugs, or requests?
Christian Martorella @laramies- cmartorella@edge-security.com
Main contributors:
Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
Janos Zold
Lee Baird @discoverscripts
Thanks:
- John Matherly - Shodan project
- Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)