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:
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anubis: Anubis-DB - https://github.com/jonluca/anubis
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bevigil: CloudSEK BeVigil scans mobile application for OSINT assets and makes them available through an API - https://bevigil.com/osint-api
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baidu: Baidu search engine - www.baidu.com
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binaryedge: List of known subdomains from www.binaryedge.io
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bing: Microsoft search engine - www.bing.com
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bingapi: Microsoft search engine, through the API (Requires an API key, see below.)
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brave: Brave search engine - https://search.brave.com/
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bufferoverun: https://tls.bufferover.run
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censys: Censys search engine, will use certificates searches to enumerate subdomains and gather emails (Requires an API key, see below.) - censys.io
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certspotter: Cert Spotter monitors Certificate Transparency logs - https://sslmate.com/certspotter/
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criminalip Specialized Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) search engine - https://www.criminalip.io
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crtsh: Comodo Certificate search - https://crt.sh
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dnsdumpster: DNSdumpster search engine - https://dnsdumpster.com
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duckduckgo: DuckDuckGo search engine - www.duckduckgo.com
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fullhunt: The Next-Generation Attack Surface Security Platform - https://fullhunt.io
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github-code: GitHub code search engine (Requires a GitHub Personal Access Token, see below.) - www.github.com
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hackertarget: Online vulnerability scanners and network intelligence to help organizations - https://hackertarget.com
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hunter: Hunter search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.hunter.io
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hunterhow: Internet Search Engines For Security Researchers - https://hunter.how
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intelx: Intelx search engine (Requires an API key, see below.) - www.intelx.io
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omnisint: Project Crobat, A Centralised Searchable Open Source Project Sonar DNS Database - https://github.com/Cgboal/SonarSearch
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otx: AlienVault Open Threat Exchange - https://otx.alienvault.com
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pentesttools: Powerful Penetration Testing Tools, Easy to Use (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://pentest-tools.com/home
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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
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qwant: Qwant search engine - www.qwant.com
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rapiddns: DNS query tool which make querying subdomains or sites of a same IP easy! https://rapiddns.io
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rocketreach: Access real-time verified personal/professional emails, phone numbers, and social media links. - https://rocketreach.co
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securityTrails: Security Trails search engine, the world's largest repository of historical DNS data
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shodan: Shodan search engine, will search for ports and banners from discovered hosts (Requires an API key, see below.) - https://shodan.io
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subdomainfinderc99: A subdomain finder is a tool used to find the subdomains of a given domain - https://subdomainfinder.c99.nl
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threatminer: Data mining for threat intelligence - https://www.threatminer.org/
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urlscan: A sandbox for the web that is a URL and website scanner - https://urlscan.io
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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
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zoomeye: China version of shodan - https://www.zoomeye.org
- DNS brute force: dictionary brute force enumeration
- Screenshots: Take screenshots of subdomains that were found
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
Christian Martorella @laramies cmartorella@edge-security.com
Matthew Brown @NotoriousRebel1
Jay "L1ghtn1ng" Townsend @jay_townsend1
- John Matherly - Shodan project
- Ahmed Aboul Ela - subdomain names dictionaries (big and small)